Nick Metz

Nick Metz
Date of birth	February 16, 1914
place of birth	Wilcox , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death	August 24, 1990
Place of death	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
Nickname	The Handyman
size	178 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1932-1934	Toronto St. Michael's Majors
1934-1942	Toronto Maple Leafs
1942-1943	Royal Canadian Army
1943-1944	Nanaimo Clippers
1944-1948	Toronto Maple Leafs

Nicholas John "Nick" Metz (born February 16, 1914 in Wilcox , Saskatchewan ; † August 24, 1990 in Regina , Saskatchewan) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 594 games for the Toronto Maple between 1932 and 1948 Leafs in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger . In the service of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Metz won the Stanley Cup four times between 1942 and 1948  - all together with his brother Don Metz, who was two years his junior .

Career

Metz moved from his hometown of Wilcox in the province of Saskatchewan to Toronto early on , where he attended St. Michael's College School there. He was later followed by his two years younger brother Don . Nick Metz ran between 1931 and 1934 for the affiliated school teams in the junior classes of the Ontario Hockey Association . With the Toronto St. Michael's Majors , for which he went on the ice from the 1932/33 season, he won the double from the J. Ross Robertson Cup of the OHA and the Memorial Cup of the entire Canadian Hockey League in the spring of 1934 .

After the season, the striker was signed by the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League . The 20-year-old made his debut there in the first half of the season, but finally found himself in the farm team , the Syracuse Stars , from the International Hockey League . It was not until the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1935 that Metz returned to the Toronto NHL squad. With the beginning of the 1935/36 season, the attacker established himself in the squad of the Toronto Maple Leafs and was an integral part of the team for the following seven years. During this time he developed into one of the best defensive strikers of his generation. The seven years in Toronto finally found a crowning conclusion with winning the Stanley Cup in the 1942 playoffs , as Metz was subsequently called up to the Royal Canadian Army due to the Second World War . There he did his military service in Nanaimo between 1942 and 1944 .

For the 1944/45 season , the Canadian returned to the Toronto Maple Leafs and equalized his personal best from the 1940/41 season with 35 scorer points . He also celebrated his second title win with the Leafs this season. In 1947 and 1948 , Metz had two more Stanley Cup triumphs follow.

After a fourth triumph and almost 600 NHL games, Metz ended his active career in the summer of 1948 at the age of 35, while his brother Don won another Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs the following year. He returned to his hometown Wilcox, where he ran his parents' farm until the late 1980s. In 1983 he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame with his brother . Metz died in Regina in August 1990 at the age of 76 .

Achievements and Awards

1934 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Toronto St. Michael's Majors 1934 Memorial Cup win with the Toronto St. Michael's Majors 1942 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs 1945 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs

1947 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs 1948 Stanley Cup win with the Toronto Maple Leafs 1983 inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1932/33	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	OHA Jr.		10	9	3	12	14th		2	0	2	2	2
1933/34	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	OHA Jr.		12	18th	15th	33	10		3	4th	0	4th	6th
1934	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	Memorial Cup								13	9	7th	16	16
1934/35	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		18th	2	2	4th	4th		6th	1	1	2	0
1934/35	Syracuse Stars	IHL		26th	13	13	26th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1935/36	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		38	14th	6th	20th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1936/37	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		48	9	11	20th	19th		2	0	0	0	0
1937/38	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		48	15th	7th	22nd	12		7th	0	2	2	0
1938/39	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		47	11	10	21st	15th		10	3	3	6th	6th
1939/40	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		31	6th	5	11	2		9	1	3	4th	9
1940/41	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		47	14th	21st	35	10		7th	3	4th	7th	0
1941/42	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		30th	11	9	20th	20th		13	4th	4th	8th	12
1942/43	Nanaimo Army	NNDHL		1	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
1943	Nanaimo Army	Allan Cup								13	3	3	6th	10
1943/44	Nanaimo Clippers	PCHL		7th	2	7th	9	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1944/45	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		50	22nd	13	35	26th		7th	1	1	2	2
1945/46	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		41	11	11	22nd	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1946/47	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		60	12	16	28	15th		6th	4th	2	6th	0
1947/48	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		60	4th	8th	12	8th		9	2	0	2	2
OHA Jr. total				22nd	27	18th	45	24		5	4th	2	6th	8th
NHL overall				518	131	119	250	149		76	19th	20th	39	31

( 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

• Nick Metz at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Nick Metz at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Nick Metz in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stan Fischler: Don Metz was an unlikely five-time cup winner. Toronto forward was outperformed by brother Nick except at playoff time. National Hockey League , January 4, 2017, accessed January 14, 2019 .