Jim McFadden

Jim McFadden
Date of birth	April 15, 1920
place of birth	Belfast , Northern Ireland , UK
date of death	August 28, 2002
size	170 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1939-1941	Portland Buckaroos
1942-1945	Winnipeg Army
1945-1946	Ottawa Senators
1946-1947	Buffalo bison
1947-1951	Detroit Red Wings
1951-1953	Chicago Black Hawks
1953-1957	Calgary Stampeders

James Alexander "Jim" McFadden (born April 15, 1920 in Belfast , Northern Ireland , † August 28, 2002 ) was a British ice hockey player who, among other things, from 1947 to 1953 for the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League played.

Career

Jim McFadden was born in Northern Ireland , but emigrated with his family to the Canadian province of Manitoba as a teenager and began his professional ice hockey career with the Portland Buckaroos in the Pacific Coast Hockey League , until the league was disbanded in 1941 due to World War II and the team died Game operations stopped. After a few months in Montreal , McFadden joined the Canadian Army and was stationed in Winnipeg, where he also played ice hockey in the army during the war years. He managed a hat trick once within 50 seconds. After the war he played for the Ottawa Senators before he was signed by the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League due to his services in the 1946/47 season . He scored 34 points in 31 games and was signed by the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League during the playoffs .

In his rookie season 1947/48 McFadden was already firmly in the squad of the Red Wings and was able to complete all 60 season games for the team. He scored 24 goals and as many assists, so that he was the second best scorer of the Red Wings behind Ted Lindsay with 48 points. At the end of the season he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy , which is awarded annually to the best new professional in the NHL. After he had won in the final of the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings against the Toronto Maple Leafs that season, he succeeded in 1950 with Detroit, the first Stanley Cup win. The following season, the center was called up for the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL All-Star Game and helped the team to a 7-1 win in the home stadium.

After the 1950/51 season, McFadden was transferred to the Chicago Black Hawks along with five other games for a total of $ 75,000 . After two years in Chicago, in which he could only partially build on his previous achievements, he left during the 1953/54 season to the Calgary Stampeders in the Western Hockey League and set a personal record there in the 1954/55 season when he achieved 65 points scorer in 56 games.

After his professional career ended in 1957, he returned to the small town of Carman , Manitoba, and worked there for many years as a farmer and school bus driver. He also coached a local ice hockey team, the Miami Rockets from the South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League. In 1985, McFadden was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame , and after his death in 2004, he was also inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame . He is also one of the few Irish- born ice hockey players who made it to the NHL.

Achievements and Awards

• 1948 Calder Memorial Trophy
• 1950 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings
• 1950 NHL All-Star Game
• 1985 Induction into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
• 2004 Induction into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame (posthumous)

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	7th	412	100	126	226	89
Playoffs	6th	49	10	9	19th	30th

Web links

• Jim McFadden in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Jim McFadden at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Jim McFadden in the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame