Floyd Martin

Floyd Martin
Date of birth	June 26, 1929
place of birth	Floradale , Ontario , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
Career stations
1947-1948	Waterloo Siskins
1948-1949	Guelph Biltmores
1949-1959	Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen
1959-1960	Hockey Canada
1960-1961	Galt Terriers
1961-1964	Johnstown Jets

Floyd "Butch" Martin (born June 26, 1929 in Floradale , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach .

Career

Floyd Martin began his career as a hockey player with the Waterloo Siskins and Guelph Biltmores, for each of which he was active for a year in the junior division. Then the defender moved up for the 1948/49 season in the senior team of the Biltmores from the Senior Ontario Hockey Association. In the 1949/50 season he ran for the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen for the first time. Due to his religion, the devout Mennonite refused to play on Sundays and interrupted his ice hockey career for half a decade. In the 1955/56 season he first played for the Elmira Polar Kings before returning to the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, with whom he represented Canada at the 1956 Winter Olympics. In the following four years he stayed with the Dutchmen, with whom he again represented Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympics. The 1960/61 season he spent with the amateur team Galt Terriers before he was a regular player in the Johnstown Jets from the Eastern Hockey League from 1961 to 1964 , where he also acted as a player-coach in the 1962/63 season. Parallel to the game operation with the Jets, he played in a total of three games for the Pittsburgh Hornets from the American Hockey League and the Windsor Bulldogs from the International Hockey League .

In the 1964/65 season, Martin took over as head coach for the Kitchener Rangers. In the 1967/68 season he worked after a two-year break from ice hockey as a player-coach for the Guelph Mercurys from the Ontario Hockey Association. After his ice hockey career, he was active as a seller of luxury cars.

International

For Canada Martin took part in the Winter Olympics in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo and 1960 in Squaw Valley part. At the 1956 Winter Games, he and his team won the bronze medal, and at the 1960 Winter Games, the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 1956 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1960 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Web links

• Floyd Martin at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Floyd Martin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )