Joe Klukay

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Flag of Canada (1921–1957) .svg  Joe Klukay Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 6, 1922
place of birth Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario , Canada
date of death February 3, 2006
Place of death Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario , Canada
Nickname The Duke of Paducah
size 183 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1941-1942 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1942-1943 Stratford Kroehlers
1943-1945 Royal Canadian Navy
1945-1946 Pittsburgh Hornets
1946-1952 Toronto Maple Leafs
1952-1954 Boston Bruins
1954-1955 Toronto Maple Leafs
1955-1956 Pittsburgh Hornets
1956-1963 Windsor Bulldogs

Joseph Francis "Joe" Klukay (born November 6, 1922 in Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario ; † February 3, 2006 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player who made 637 games for the Toronto Maple in the course of his active career between 1941 and 1963, among other things Leafs and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League on the left winger position . During his ten seasons in the NHL, Klukay, who was one of the best defensive strikers of his generation, won the Stanley Cup four times with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947 , 1948 , 1949 and 1951 . He also took part in the NHL All-Star Game three times .

Career

Klukay, who lived in Sault Ste. Marie was born in the province of Ontario , initially played in his native city during his junior years. He was later active between 1942 and 1943 with the Stratford Kroehlers in the Ontario Hockey Association . In the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1943 , the attacker finally made his professional debut when he completed a game for the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League . Klukay's leap into the professional field was abruptly interrupted in the summer of 1943 when he had to do his military service for over two years in the Royal Canadian Navy due to World War II . He played sporadically for the teams of the Navy military bases in Toronto and Cornwallis . In 1945 he ended his career in the Canadian armed forces.

The offensive player returned to professional ice hockey for the 1945/46 season. He came to the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League during the season and was able to convince there with 49 points in 57 games. The Hornets were serving as the Toronto Maple Leafs' farm team at the time . For the game year 1946/47 Klukay returned after a three-year absence in the squad of the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he was henceforth trained by teammate Nick Metz to be a reputable defensive striker. In the following three seasons between 1947 and 1949, the Canadian won the Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs . Another followed at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1951 . In addition, as a member of the reigning champions, he participated in as many NHL All-Star Games as a result of the first three title wins . After a total of six seasons in the Toronto jersey, Klukay's time there came to an end in September 1952 when the team was rejuvenated and he was sold to the Boston Bruins .

With the Bruins, the striker spent a little over two years, during which he reached 20 goals for the first time in his career in the 1953/54 season. In addition, he stood with Boston in the final series of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1953 , where he missed his fifth title win. In November 1954, he finally returned to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Leo Boivin . There he played another full season in the NHL. In the game year 1955/56 , the now 33-year-old was sent to the Pittsburgh Hornets in the AHL in November 1955 after 18 season appearances. There he ended the season and subsequently did not return to the NHL.

Instead, Klukay went to Windsor. There he ran from autumn 1955 to 1963 for the Windsor Bulldogs . First in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association , then later in the Ontario Hockey Association . The time in Windsor was crowned in the spring of 1963 by winning the Allan Cup under the direction of coach Harry Watson . Then the Bulldogs were accepted into the International Hockey League and increasingly professionalized. In the IHL, the now 40-year-old attacker played a game for Windsor before declaring his active career over. After the end of his career, Klukay remained loyal to ice hockey as a referee and lived in Southfield in the US state of Michigan . He died in February 2006 in Sault Ste. Marie at the age of 83.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1942/43 Stratford Kroehlers OHA Jr. 14th 11 18th 29 11 2 4th 4th 8th 0
1942/43 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0
1943/44 Toronto Navy OHA-Sr. 25th 14th 13 27 19th - - - - -
1944/45 Cornwallis Navy NSDHL 13 8th 4th 12 8th 3 3 3 6th 6th
1945/46 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 57 26th 23 49 20th 6th 4th 1 5 2
1946/47 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 55 9 20th 29 12 11 1 0 1 0
1947/48 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 59 15th 15th 30th 28 9 1 1 2 2
1948/49 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 45 11 10 21st 11 9 2 3 5 4th
1949/50 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 15th 16 31 19th 7th 3 0 3 4th
1950/51 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 14th 16 30th 16 11 4th 3 7th 0
1951/52 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 43 4th 8th 12 6th 4th 1 1 2 0
1952/53 Boston Bruins NHL 70 13 16 29 20th 11 1 2 3 9
1953/54 Boston Bruins NHL 70 20th 17th 37 27 4th 0 0 0 0
1954/55 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 56 8th 8th 16 44 4th 0 0 0 4th
1955/56 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 18th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1955/56 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 47 24 26th 50 40 4th 4th 1 5 8th
1956/57 Windsor Bulldogs OHA-Sr. 52 23 30th 53 80 12 6th 4th 10 9
1957/58 Windsor Bulldogs NOHA 57 10 27 37 33 13 1 9 10 11
1958/59 Windsor Bulldogs NOHA 49 21st 21st 42 25th - - - - -
1960/61 Windsor Bulldogs OHA-Sr. 33 12 37 49 10 - - - - -
1961/62 Windsor Bulldogs OHA-Sr. 33 12 20th 32 32 13 1 7th 8th 6th
1962/63 Windsor Bulldogs OHA-Sr. 12 3 9 12 2 10 1 7th 8th 2
1963 Windsor Bulldogs Allan Cup - - - - - 10 3 8th 11 12
1963/64 Windsor Bulldogs IHL 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
OHA-Sr. total 155 64 109 173 143 35 8th 18th 26th 17th
AHL total 104 50 49 99 60 10 8th 2 10 10
NHL overall 566 109 127 236 189 71 13 10 23 23

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joe Pelletier: Toronto Maple Leafs Legends: Joe Klukay. greatesthockeylegends.com, July 2010, accessed January 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klukay, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klukay, Joseph Francis (full name); The Duke of Paducah (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2006
Place of death Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario