Pete Backor

Pete Backor
Date of birth	April 29, 1919
place of birth	Fort William , Ontario , Canada
date of death	June 30, 1988
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1938-1939	Fort William forts
1939-1944	St. Catharines Saints
1944-1945	Toronto Maple Leafs
1945-1954	Pittsburgh Hornets
1954-1955	Sault Ste. Marie Indians

Pete Backor (born April 29, 1919 in Fort William , Ontario , † June 30, 1988 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League from 1944 to 1945 .

Career

Pete Backor began his career as a hockey player with the St. Catharines Saints, for whom he played from 1939 to 1944 in the Ontario Hockey Association . He was then signed by the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League , with whom he won the prestigious Stanley Cup in his only NHL season in the 1944/45 season . After he began the 1946/47 season with the Hollywood Wolves from the Pacific Coast Hockey League , he played until 1954 for the Pittsburgh Hornets from the American Hockey League with whom he won the Calder Cup in 1952 . During this time he was appointed to the AHL First All-Star Team five times. From 1954 to 1956 Backor played for Sault Ste. Marie Indians in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association, where he ended his career as a player. In the first of his two seasons with the Indians, Backor acted as player-coach for the entire season.

Achievements and Awards

• Stanley Cup winner with the Toronto Maple Leafs (1945)
• AHL First All-Star Team (1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951)
• Calder Cup winner with the Pittsburgh Hornets (1952)

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	1	36	4th	5	9	6th
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Pete Backor at hockeydb.com (English)
• Pete Backor at legendsofhockey.net (English)