Fred Glover

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CanadaCanada  Fred Glover Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 5, 1928
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
date of death August 16, 2001
size 175 cm
Weight 73 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1943-1945 Toronto Young Leafs
1945-1947 Galt Red Wings
1947-1948 Omaha Knights
1948-1951 Indianapolis Capitals
1951-1952 Detroit Red Wings
1952-1953 Chicago Black Hawks
1953-1968 Cleveland Barons

Fred Glover (* 5. January 1928 in Toronto , Ontario ; † 16th August 2001 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and - coaches , who during his playing career, among other things for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League has played . He spent most of his career with the Cleveland Barons in the American Hockey League , where he set numerous franchise records and went down in history as one of the best players in the American Hockey League. In 1969 the Cleveland Barons blocked his number 9. His brother Howie also played in the National Hockey League.

Career

Fred Glover went during his youth from 1943 to 1945 for the Toronto Young Leafs in a junior junior league before he spent the following two seasons with the Galt Red Wings in the Ontario Hockey Association . In the 1947/48 season Glover played together with Terry Sawchuk at the Omaha Knights in the United States Hockey League . The attacker then went for the Indianapolis Capitals , a farm team of the Detroit Red Wings , on the ice and knew how to convince with his good performance and was the team's best scorer in his first season. During the 1948/49 season , Glover made his debut in the National Hockey League when he was used in the playoffs for the Detroit Red Wings. Mostly he played on the farm team at the Indianapolis Capitals, with whom he won the Calder Cup in 1950 . In the following season he was chosen because of his good performance, with 84 points in the regular season, Glover was together with Max McNab the best scorer of the Capitals, in the AHL First All-Star Team . At the Detroit Red Wings, he mostly played with Vic Stasiuk in a row and won the Stanley Cup with the team in 1952 . In August 1952, the Red Wings transferred him to Chicago. Glover stayed less than a season with the Chicago Black Hawks , as they gave him in January 1953 in exchange for Vic Lynn to the Cleveland Barons .

Glover played exclusively for the Barons for the next 16 years and during this time he became one of the best players who ever played in the American Hockey League and set numerous team-internal records. In Cleveland, the striker acted as team captain . In 1953 and 1954 he won the Calder Cup twice in a row with the team. Further title wins in 1957 and 1964 followed. In 1957 and 1960 Glover was awarded the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as the best point player of the regular season. 1960, 1962 and 1964 he was awarded the Les Cunningham Award as wertvollster Player of the regular season . Glover also took part in the AHL All-Star Classic several times . In the last six years of his playing career, he took over the duties of player-coach with the Barons and in 1964 won the Calder Cup for the fifth time in his career. On February 11, 1967, he scored his 500th goal in the American Hockey League. Glover ended his playing career in 1968 with a record of 520 regular season goals and only Willie Marshall (523) and Jody Gage (504) also scored over 500 goals in the AHL. One year after the end of his career as an active player, the Cleveland Barons blocked his shirt number 9, which was no longer given to any player.

From 1968 to 1970 Glover was with the Oakland Seals on the gang. He was also employed as head coach under the new name of the team, the California Golden Seals . However, his engagement was not very successful and the Golden Seals missed the playoffs. For the 1971/72 season , the Canadian accepted an engagement with the Los Angeles Kings . In the following two seasons Glover trained again the California Golden Seals.

In 2006, the American Hockey League honored him for his services as a player and coach with the induction into the AHL Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1958 AHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1960 AHL First All-Star Team
  • 1960 John B. Sollenberger Trophy
  • 1960 Les Cunningham Award
  • 1962 AHL First All-Star Team
  • 1962 Les Cunningham Award
  • 1964 AHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1964 Les Cunningham Award
  • 1964 Calder Cup win with the Cleveland Barons

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 3 92 13 11 24 62
NHL playoffs 2 8th 0 0 0 0
AHL regular season 20th 1201 520 814 1334 2402
AHL playoffs 17th 120 48 56 104 317

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personal data
SURNAME Glover, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2001