Don Metz

Don Metz

Date of birth	January 10, 1916
place of birth	Wilcox , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death	November 16, 2007
Place of death	Wilcox , Saskatchewan , Canada
Nickname	Kid Metz
size	178 cm
Weight	75 kg

position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right

Career stations

1935-1936	Toronto St. Michael's Majors
1935-1939	Toronto Goodyears
1939-1940	Pittsburgh Hornets
1939-1942	Toronto Maple Leafs
1942-1945	Royal Canadian Army & Air Force
1945-1949	Toronto Maple Leafs Pittsburgh Hornets

Donald Maurice Metz (born January 10, 1916 in Wilcox , Saskatchewan , † November 16, 2007 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player who, in the course of his active career between 1935 and 1949, among other things, 214 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League has contested on the position of the right winger . In the service of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Metz won the Stanley Cup five times between 1942 and 1949 - four of them together with his two-year-old brother Nick Metz .

Career

Metz, who was born in Wilcox in the province of Saskatchewan , followed his two-year-old brother Nick to Toronto in his youth , where he attended St. Michael's College School . The 1935/36 season he spent with the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the junior leagues of the Ontario Hockey Association , for which Nick had already played between 1932 and 1934 and from there made the leap to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League . Don Metz also played for the Toronto Goodyears in the senior leagues of the OHA this season. Overall, the right winger belonged to the team until the spring of 1939 and during this time he represented the team twice in the Allan Cup in 1938 and 1939 . He also completed the 1937/38 season as the top scorer of the OHA.

The attacker's achievements finally drew the Toronto Maple Leafs' attention to him, so that he made his debut for the team in the NHL during the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1939 . There he was reunited with his brother. At the beginning of the 1939/40 season, Metz had made the leap into the professional field, played a few missions for the Maple Leafs during the season, but was mainly part of the farm team , the Pittsburgh Hornets , in the International-American Hockey League . It was not until the 1940/41 season that the striker was firmly in the Toronto squad and completed his best NHL year with 14 points . In the following game year Metz won his first Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs , to which he contributed seven points in just four inserts in the playoffs . Metz only moved up 3-0 after playing for the Detroit Red Wings in Toronto's squad, collecting his seven points all in the remaining four finals, all of which ended in the Maple Leafs' favor. Among the seven points that earned him ninth place in the playoffs scorer rating was a hat trick in the fifth game of the final series.

Metz's emergence in the Toronto Maple Leafs roster was suddenly interrupted by his draft into the Royal Canadian Army due to World War II in 1942. He did his military service over three years in the Army and Air Force , playing sporadically for the ice hockey teams at the military bases in Regina and Toronto. He returned to the Stanley Cup playoffs 1945 , the offensive player in the squad of the Toronto Maple Leafs and celebrated his second Stanley Cup win after 1942. With the start of the 1945/46 season, Metz commuted for the following four years always between Toronto NHL Squad and the Pittsburgh Hornets roster in the now renamed American Hockey League. Although he kept commuting between the NHL and AHL, he won three more cups in 1947 , 1948 and 1949 . The title win in 1947 also gave him his only invitation to the NHL All-Star Game as a member of the reigning championship team, which competed against a compiled selection of the remaining teams in the league.

After his fifth triumph - which was only achieved by Turk Broda and Theodore Kennedy in Toronto's jersey - and 214 NHL games, Metz ended his active career in the summer of 1949 at the age of 33. He returned to his hometown Wilcox, where he ran his parents' farm until the late 1980s. In 1983 he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame with his brother . Metz died in Wilcox in November 2007 at the age of 91.

Achievements and Awards

1938 Ontario Hockey Association top scorer

1942 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs

1945 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs

1947 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs

1947 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
1948 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs
1949 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs
1983 inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame

Career statistics

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1935/36	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	OHA Jr.	10	9	4th	13	5	5	3	0	3	8th
1935/36	Toronto Goodyears	OHA-Sr.	13	6th	3	9	4th	9	3	4th	7th	10
1936/37	Toronto Goodyears	OHA-Sr.	9	3	2	5	6th	5	0	2	2	6th
1937/38	Toronto Goodyears	OHA-Sr.	16	20th	22nd	42	4th	6th	6th	2	8th	2
1938	Toronto Goodyears	Allan Cup						4th	1	1	2	6th
1938/39	Toronto Goodyears	OHA-Sr.	18th	15th	16	31	8th	5	4th	5	9	0
1938/39	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	-	-	-	-	-	2	0	0	0	0
1939	Toronto Goodyears	Allan Cup						10	12	3	15th	17th
1939/40	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	10	1	1	2	4th	2	0	0	0	0
1939/40	Pittsburgh Hornets	IAHL	32	13	25th	38	10	7th	2	2	4th	4th
1940/41	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	31	4th	10	14th	6th	7th	1	1	2	2
1941/42	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	25th	2	3	5	8th	4th	4th	3	7th	0
1942/43	Regina Army Caps	SSHL	24	43	26th	69	12	5	10	4th	14th	6th
1943/44	Toronto Royal Canadian Air Force	TIHL	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	2	4th
1944/45	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	-	-	-	-	-	11	0	1	1	4th
1945/46	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	7th	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
1945/46	Pittsburgh Hornets	AHL	44	22nd	29	51	8th	6th	3	4th	7th	2
1946/47	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	40	4th	9	13	10	11	2	3	5	4th
1946/47	Pittsburgh Hornets	AHL	24	19th	17th	36	4th	-	-	-	-	-
1947/48	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	26th	4th	6th	10	2	2	0	0	0	2
1947/48	Pittsburgh Hornets	AHL	3	0	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
1948/49	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	33	4th	6th	10	12	3	0	0	0	0
1948/49	Pittsburgh Hornets	AHL	17th	5	7th	12	4th	-	-	-	-	-
OHA-Sr. total			56	44	43	87	22nd	25th	13	13	26th	18th
(I) AHL total			120	59	79	138	26th	13	5	6th	11	6th
NHL overall			172	20th	35	55	42	42	7th	8th	15th	12

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Stan Fischler: Don Metz was an unlikely five-time cup winner. Toronto forward was outperformed by brother Nick except at playoff time. National Hockey League , January 4, 2017, accessed January 13, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Metz, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Metz, Donald Maurice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilcox , Saskatchewan
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 2007
Place of death	Wilcox , Saskatchewan

[nhl-1] A ^b Stan Fischler: Don Metz was an unlikely five-time cup winner. Toronto forward was outperformed by brother Nick except at playoff time. National Hockey League , January 4, 2017, accessed January 13, 2019 .