Ken Dryden

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 1983
Ken Dryden
Date of birth August 8, 1947
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 94 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1964 , 3rd lap, 14th position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
1964-1965 Etobicoke Indians
1965-1969 Cornell University
1969-1970 Team Canada
1970-1979 Montréal Canadiens

Kenneth Wayne "Ken" Dryden OC PC (born August 8, 1947 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper , has worked as an author of ice hockey literature and socially critical books and has been a member of the Canadian Parliament since 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was a minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Paul Martin .

Ice hockey career

In the 1964 NHL Amateur Draft , the Boston Bruins had secured the rights to him. In the late 1960s, the talented Ken Dryden was aware that he couldn't make enough money from ice hockey to live on for the rest of his life. So he preferred to get a good education first and then study history and law. He decided against an offer from the Montréal Canadiens , preferring to accept an offer from Team Canada for four years and a scholarship to the University of Manitoba. The program was canceled and Ken joined a Canadiens farm team. He also studied law in Montreal. Then came the playoffs in 1971 and the Canadiens got their farm team goal and this one became a star. Dryden won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the best player in the playoffs and led his Canadiens to the Stanley Cup . Dryden was on a two-year contract that earned him $ 90,000. When the Canadiens refused to negotiate an increase in salaries at the end of the contract, Dryden went on strike at the end of the season and the playoffs were already over for the Canadiens in the quarter-finals. He used the time and finished his law degree. He was back the following season and now making $ 200,000 a year. He was the counterweight to the strong attackers of the Habs. He was characterized by the combination of good athleticism and physical strength. So he led the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup victories in 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. After four Stanley Cups in a row, he ended his career at the age of 31 and thus also a great era of the Montreal Canadiens.

In 1983 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame . Before the home game against the Ottawa Senators on January 29, 2007, his number 29 was locked in a solemn ceremony. It is no longer awarded to any player in the Canadiens.

Ken's brother Dave was also a goalkeeper in the NHL. When both brothers were substituted on for their respective team in the Canadiens game with the Sabers in the 70/71 season , two brothers faced each other in goal for the first time in NHL history.

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 7th 397 0.758 2.24 46
Playoffs 8th 112 0.714 2.40 10

Awards

Records

  • 2 consecutive seasons with more than 40 wins ( 1975/76 and 1976/77 ) together with 3 other players.

Life after ice hockey

Even as an active player, Dryden tried his hand at writing and the book Summit on Ice was published . The book is a diary about the events and his experiences in the ice hockey games of the Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union in 1972. The book is not very well known and has not been printed for a long time. After his active career, the book The Game was published. In it, he describes his psychological situation as the goalkeeper of the Montreal Canadiens on the way to the Stanley Cup triumph in 1979, and in it he particularly addresses the pressure on the goalie and offers readers a look behind the scenes of an ice hockey team. The book already received more attention than his first. In his other books he also dealt with other topics besides ice hockey. In his publication In School: Our Kids, Our Teachers, Our Classrooms , he takes a critical look at the Canadian school system.

Dryden also worked as a television commentator. In 1980, 1984 and 1988 he commented on the ice hockey tournament at the Olympic Winter Games.

From 1997 to 2004 he was President of the Toronto Maple Leafs .

Political career

From 1984 to 1986 he was the first youth commissioner for the province of Ontario .

In June 2004, Ken Dryden after the withdrawal of was Art Eggleton for the Liberal Party of Canada as a deputy in the lower house voted (House of Commons). He was appointed to the cabinet by Prime Minister Paul Martin and became Minister for Social Development.

During the 2006 election campaign, Dryden published in his brochures a letter from Ya'acov Brosh , the consul general of Israel, thanking him for attending the memorial service in honor of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , who was assassinated in 1995 . Dryden drew criticism as Brosh said after the letter was published that while he consented to the letter being passed around, he had not consented to be part of Dryden's campaign. Dryden lost his post as minister, but remained in Parliament for the York Center district .

On April 28, 2006, Dryden confirmed rumors that he would run for chairman of the Liberal Party of Canada. He was then criticized that his way of speaking was too clumsy and his French not good enough, which is why he was out of the question as chairman.

While Dryden is well behind his competitors in terms of campaign budget, a survey found that support for him is significantly greater than for his competitors. And in the state of Québec , too , he is doing well despite his poor French.

The election took place on December 6, 2006. Eight candidates stood for election. After the first ballot, three candidates were to be eliminated, after the second ballot two more, and in the third one more candidate, so that only two candidates ran in the fourth and final ballot. In the first ballot Dryden was in fifth place with 4.9 percent, in the second ballot he received 4.7 percent of the vote and stayed in fifth place, which is why he was eliminated. In the third ballot he supported Bob Rae , who received the fewest votes of the three remaining candidates. Then Dryden switched to Stéphane Dion , who received 54.7 percent in the decisive ballot and is thus the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

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personal data
SURNAME Dryden, Ken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dryden, Kenneth Wayne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton