Howie Meeker

Howie Meeker
Meeker (left) receives the Calder Memorial Trophy, 1947.
Date of birth	November 4, 1923
place of birth	Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1940-1941	Kitchener Greenshirts
1941-1942	Stratford box
1942-1943	Stratford Kroehlers Brantford Lions
1945-1946	Stratford Indians
1946-1954	Toronto Maple Leafs
1954-1956	Pittsburgh Hornets
1956-1957	Toronto Maple Leafs
1957-1959	St. John's City Council
1959-1961	St. John's Capitals
1961-1967	St. John's Junior Guards
1967-1969	St. John's Feildians

Howard William "Howie" Meeker , CM (born November 4, 1923 in Kitchener , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official as well as sports commentator. In his active time he played from 1946 to 1954 for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League .

Career

Howie Meeker began his career as a hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs , for which he played in the National Hockey League from 1946 to 1954 . During this time, he won the Stanley Cup four times with the Canadians in 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1951 . In his first NHL season he also received the Calder Memorial Trophy for best rookie . After his time in Toronto, Meeker was under contract for two years with the Pittsburgh Hornets from the American Hockey League , which he looked after as a player-coach.

After his career as a professional ice hockey player, Meeker was in the 1956/57 season as a replacement for King Clancy head coach at his ex-club, the Toronto Maple Leafs , with whom he missed the playoffs. After the season he became general manager , but the Maple Leafs fired him before the start of the 1957/58 season .

Meeker later started a television career. From 1973 to 1977 his own show Howie Meeker's Hockey School was broadcast on CBC Television . In the 1970s and 1980s, Meeker worked, among other things, as a game analyst for Hockey Night in Canada . From 1987 to 1998, the former professional ice hockey player worked for the sports broadcaster TSN .

In 1998 Howie Meeker received the Fost Hewitt Award for his ice hockey broadcasts and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

In 2010 he was accepted as a member of the Order of Canada .

Achievements and Awards

1947 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs 1947 Calder Memorial Trophy 1947 NHL All-Star Game 1948 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs

1948 NHL All-Star Game 1949 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs 1949 NHL All-Star Game 1951 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	8th	346	83	102	185	329
Playoffs	5	42	6th	9	15th	50

Web links

• Howie Meeker at hockeydb.com (English)
• Howie Meeker at legendsofhockey.net (English)