Pentti Lund

Pentti Lund
Date of birth	December 6, 1925
place of birth	Karijoki , Finland
date of death	April 16, 2013
Place of death	Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1942-1943	Port Arthur Bruins
1943-1945	Port Arthur Navy
1945-1947	Boston Olympics
1947-1948	Hershey Bears
1948-1951	New York Rangers
1951-1953	Boston Bruins
1953-1955	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds

Pentti Alexander Lund (born December 6, 1925 in Karijoki , † April 16, 2013 in Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada ) was a Finnish ice hockey player .

At the age of six he moved from Finland to Canada . He later played for the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League . He was the first ever Finn in this league.

Career

In the 1945/46 season, Pentti Lund began his professional career at the Boston Olympics in the EHL and was top scorer in this league with 33 points in 34 games. The following season he stayed at the Olympics, but also had a job with the Boston Bruins in the play-offs of the NHL. In the 1947/48 season Lund moved to the AHL to the Hershey Bears , where he also showed a good performance.

Then Pentti Lund moved to the New York Rangers and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie with 30 points in 59 games.

In the 1951/52 season Lund went back to the Boston Bruins, where he was seriously injured on November 13 in a foul by a stick too high by Clark Martin from the Chicago Blackhawks team in the right eye . From that moment on, his vision in that eye was severely impaired. He was out for three months, but then continued to play for the Bruins and ended the 1952/53 season with 17 points.

The following two seasons Lund completed with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the amateur league NOHA and retired in 1955.

On September 29, 1984, he was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame . In 1992 he was accepted into the Finnish ice hockey hall of fame.

Lund died on April 16, 2013 in a Thunder Bay hospital.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	5	259	44	55	99	40
Playoffs	5	19th	7th	5	12	0

Web links

• Pentti Lund at hockeydb.com (English)
• Pentti Lund at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports legend Lund dies at 87 . In: Online edition of The Chronicle Journal, April 16, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2013.