Johnny Bower

Johnny Bower
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1976
Date of birth	November 8, 1924
place of birth	Prince Albert , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death	December 26, 2017
Place of death	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
1944-1945	Prince Albert Black Hawks
1945-1953	Cleveland Barons
1953-1954	New York Rangers
1954-1955	Vancouver Canucks
1955-1957	Providence Reds
1957-1958	Cleveland Barons
1958-1970	Toronto Maple Leafs

John William "Johnny" Bower (born John Kiszkan ; born November 8, 1924 in Prince Albert , Saskatchewan ; † December 26, 2017 in Toronto , Ontario ) was a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who worked for the New York Rangers and Toronto from 1953 to 1970 Maple Leafs played in the National Hockey League . He has won four Stanley Cups and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

At 17 he went to the military for four years and then played in the lower classes for a few years. Even in his first years with the New York Rangers he did not make the breakthrough and when he moved to Toronto, he played his second season there. At the beginning of his NHL career he was over 30 years old and when he was first elected to the "First All-Star Team" he was already 37 years. He won the Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967, and by the time he retired in 1970 he was 45 years old.

In 1976 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame . 30 years later, the American Hockey League honored him with his induction into the AHL Hall of Fame .

He died on December 26, 2017 in Toronto at the age of 93 of complications from pneumonia .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Victory cut	Conceded goal	Shutouts
Regular season	15th	552	0.551	2.52	37
Playoffs	10	74	0.507	2.52	5

Awards

• Harry "Hap" Holmes Memorial Award : 1952, 1957 and 1958
• AHL First All-Star Team : 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957 and 1958
• AHL Second All-Star Team : 1951
• Les Cunningham Award : 1956, 1957 and 1958
• NHL First All-Star Team : 1961
• Vezina Trophy : 1961 and 1965

Web links

• Johnny Bower in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
• Johnny Bower in the database of the AHL Hall of Fame (English)
• Johnny Bower at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bower dies at age 93. nhl.com, December 26, 2017, accessed on December 27, 2017 (English).