Pat Rupp

Pat Rupp
Date of birth	August 12, 1942
place of birth	Detroit , Michigan , USA
date of death	February 2, 2006
Place of death	Dayton , Ohio
size	178 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
1961-1963	Flin Flon Bombers
1963-1964	Philadelphia Ramblers
1965-1967	Dayton Gems
1967-1968	Team USA
1968-1972	Dayton Gems
1975-1976	Buffalo Norsemen
1979-1980	Dayton Gems

Patrick Lloyd Rupp (born August 12, 1942 in Detroit , Michigan , † February 2, 2006 in Dayton , Ohio ) was an American ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

Rupp began his career as a professional ice hockey player in the Eastern Hockey League with the Philadelphia Ramblers in 1963 . In the same season he took part in a game for the Detroit Red Wings as a replacement for Terry Sawchuk in the National Hockey League . He played for the US national ice hockey team at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . Rupp moved to the Dayton Gems in the International Hockey League in the 1964/65 season .

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , France , he was again a member of the US team. He won the James Norris Memorial Trophy with teammate John Adams in 1969 .

In 1972 he announced his retirement from hockey, but still played the 1975/76 season in the North American Hockey League for the Buffalo Norsemen and 1979-80 for the Daytona Gems.

Pat Rupp died of cancer on February 2, 2006.

Achievements and Awards

• 1969 James Norris Memorial Trophy (with John Adams )

Web links

• Pat Rupp at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Pat Rupp at hockeydb.com (English)
• Pat Rupp in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )