Gord Pettinger

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Flag of Canada (1921–1957) .svg  Gord Pettinger Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 17, 1911
place of birth Harrogate , England , UK
date of death April 12, 1986
Nickname Gosh
size 185 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1928-1930 Regina Pats
1930-1931 Vancouver Lions
1931-1932 Bronx Tigers
1932-1933 New York Rangers
Springfield Indians
1933-1937 Detroit Red Wings
1937-1939 Boston Bruins
1939-1942 Hershey Bears
1944-1945 Hershey Bears
Cleveland Barons
1945 Regina Capitals

Gordon Robert "Gord" Pettinger (born November 17, 1911 in Harrogate , England ; † April 12, 1986 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player of British origin who played 339 games for the New York Rangers between 1928 and 1945 . Detroit Red Wings , Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Pettinger won the Stanley Cup four times during his eight seasons in the NHL, but as only one of eleven players in league history with at least three different teams.

Career

Pettinger was in English Harrogate born, but grew up after the family, including his older brother Eric had emigrated, in the Canadian Regina in the province of Saskatchewan on. Via the Regina Pats , for whom he played for two years between 1928 and 1930 and made two appearances in the prestigious Memorial Cup , the center forward made the leap into the professional field. His brother had already appeared for the team from their hometown at the beginning of the 1920s.

In the 1930/31 season Pettinger first played for a year for the Vancouver Lions in the Pacific Coast Hockey League , after he had been signed by the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League in late October 1930 . After the year on the Canadian Pacific Coast, the attacker was used in the following season with the Bronx Tigers in the Canadian-American Hockey League . For the 1932/33 season he moved at the request of the Rangers within the league to the Springfield Indians . In December 1932 he finally made his debut for New York in the NHL and subsequently established himself in the squad, so that he could celebrate winning the trophy of the same name with the Rangers at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1933 . Despite the career jump, Pettinger's time in New York ended abruptly in October 1933 when he was sold to the Detroit Red Wings . In Detroit, the native Briton remained a regular in the NHL. In the following four years he won two more Stanley Cups with the Red Wings - in 1936 and 1937 . At times he also came to Detroit's farm teams , the Detroit Olympics and London Tecumsehs , in the International Hockey League to missions.

After the third cup success, Pettinger completed twelve games for the Red Wings before another club change took place in December 1937. In exchange for Red Beattie , the attacker was transferred to the Boston Bruins . There he won his fourth and final Stanley Cup at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1939 . After another six months there, the 29-year-old decided to continue his career away from the NHL. With the beginning of the second half of the game year 1939/40 he ran for the rest of his career in the American Hockey League . He was initially active for the Hershey Bears until the spring of 1942 , but this was interrupted by the drafting into the Canadian armed forces due to the Second World War.

With the beginning of the 1944/45 season , Pettinger had finished his two-year military service and initially returned to the Hershey Bears. During the season, however, he moved to league rivals Cleveland Barons . At the end of the season, he ended his active professional career and subsequently only played a few games for the Regina Capitals from his hometown. Pettinger died in April 1986 at the age of 74.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1928/29 Regina Pats S-SJHL 6th 5 1 6th 2 - - - - -
1929 Regina Pats Memorial Cup 6th 6th 0 6th 4th
1929/30 Regina Pats S-SJHL 3 2 2 4th 4th - - - - -
1930 Regina Pats Memorial Cup 8th 5 1 6th 12
1930/31 Vancouver Lions PCHL 33 5 5 10 10 4th 0 1 1 0
1931/32 Bronx Tigers CAHL 39 14th 18th 32 34 2 0 2 2 6th
1932/33 New York Rangers NHL 34 1 2 3 18th 8th 0 0 0 0
1932/33 Springfield Indians CAHL 13 7th 5 12 12 - - - - -
1933/34 Detroit Red Wings NHL 48 3 14th 17th 14th 7th 1 0 1 2
1933/34 Detroit Olympics IHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1934/35 Detroit Red Wings NHL 13 2 3 5 2 - - - - -
1934/35 London Tecumsehs IHL 44 10 15th 25th 45 5 4th 0 4th 5
1935/36 Detroit Red Wings NHL 30th 8th 7th 15th 6th 7th 2 2 4th 0
1935/36 Detroit Olympics IHL 18th 9 16 25th 10 - - - - -
1936/37 Detroit Red Wings NHL 48 7th 15th 22nd 13 10 0 2 2 2
1937/38 Detroit Red Wings NHL 12 1 3 4th 4th - - - - -
1937/38 Boston Bruins NHL 35 7th 10 17th 10 3 0 0 0 0
1938/39 Boston Bruins NHL 48 11 14th 25th 8th 12 1 1 2 7th
1939/40 Boston Bruins NHL 24 2 6th 8th 2 - - - - -
1939/40 Hershey Bears IAHL 29 9 12 21st 0 5 1 1 2 4th
1940/41 Hershey Bears AHL 52 13 28 41 4th 6th 2 6th 8th 2
1941/42 Hershey Bears AHL 56 12 38 50 8th 10 2 8th 10 2
1942/43 without a contract not played because of military service
1943/44 without a contract not played because of military service
1944/45 Hershey Bears AHL 32 5 12 17th 0 - - - - -
1944/45 Cleveland Barons AHL 12 1 3 4th 4th - - - - -
1945/46 Regina Capitals WCSHL 8th 2 6th 8th 0 - - - - -
CAHL total 52 21st 23 44 46 2 0 2 2 6th
IHL total 63 19th 31 50 55 5 4th 0 4th 5
(I) AHL total 181 40 93 133 16 21st 5 15th 20th 8th
NHL overall 292 42 74 116 77 47 4th 5 9 11

( 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 )

family

Pettinger's older brother Eric Pettinger , whose nickname was " Cowboy " , was also a professional ice hockey player and between 1928 and 1930 he played a good 100 games in the National Hockey League . He ran for the Boston Bruins , Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators . The great-nephew Matt Pettinger also made the leap into the NHL at the beginning of the millennium, where he played over 420 games. In addition, he was active in Germany for a long time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends: Gord Pettinger. greatesthockeylegends.com, August 1, 2015, accessed February 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pettinger, Gord
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pettinger, Gordon Robert (full name); Gosh (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrogate , England
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1986