Ray Timgren

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Ray Timgren
Date of birth September 29, 1928
place of birth Windsor , Ontario , Canada
date of death November 25, 1999
Place of death Lindsay , Ontario , Canada
Nickname Golden boy
size 175 cm
Weight 73 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1943-1945 Toronto Young Leafs
1945-1948 Toronto Marlboros
1948-1952 Toronto Maple Leafs
1952-1954 Pittsburgh Hornets
1954 Chicago Black Hawks
1954-1955 Pittsburgh Hornets

Raymond Charles "Ray" Timgren (born September 29, 1928 in Windsor , Ontario , † November 25, 1999 in Lindsay , Ontario) was a Canadian ice hockey player of Finnish origin, who in the course of his active career between 1945 and 1955, among other things, 281 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks have played in the National Hockey League on the left winger position . In the service of the Toronto Maple Leafs, for whom he played most of his NHL career, Timgren won the Stanley Cup in 1949 and 1951, respectively .

Career

Timgren, whose parents immigrated to Canada from Finland , spent his junior years in the Toronto area between 1943 and 1948, playing for the Toronto Young Leafs and Toronto Marlboros . For the latter, the striker made his debut in the 1948/49 season in the professional team before he was committed to the current Stanley Cup winner Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League during the season .

At the Maple Leafs, the defensively oriented attacker made the direct leap into the regular squad. With three hits in the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1949 , he contributed his share to winning the Stanley Cup that year. Two years later he repeated the success with the team, which had won the title four times in a period of five years. Timgren was part of the permanent staff for another year before management began to bring younger players into the squad. The winger's operating times decreased as a result and his appearances in Toronto's farm team , the Pittsburgh Hornets , from the American Hockey League increased noticeably between 1951 and 1953. The season 1953/54 he then spent entirely in Pittsburgh before he was transferred to the Chicago Black Hawks in October 1954 in exchange for Jack Price .

For the Black Hawks Timgren was only in 14 games in the NHL on the ice, as they loaned him back to Toronto in mid-November of the same year. There he came back to the Pittsburgh Hornets for the rest of the season. While he only completed one more NHL game for Toronto, he won the Calder Cup with the Hornets in the spring of 1955 . During the 1955/56 season, the 27-year-old ended his active professional career prematurely.

Timgren started teaching after retiring. He died in November 1999 at the age of 71 in his adopted home Lindsay in the Canadian province of Ontario .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1944/45 Toronto Young Leafs OHA Jr. 10 10 8th 18th
1946/47 Toronto Marlboros OHA Jr. 20th 20th 7th 27 6th 2 2 3 5 0
1946/47 Toronto Dorsts TMHL 13 17th 15th 32 5 12 11 15th 26th 4th
1947/48 Toronto Marlboros OHA Jr. 33 21st 20th 41 33 5 1 1 2 2
1948/49 Toronto Marlboros OHA-Sr. 26th 6th 22nd 28 27 - - - - -
1948/49 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 36 3 12 15th 9 9 3 3 6th 2
1949/50 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 68 7th 18th 25th 22nd 6th 0 4th 4th 2
1950/51 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 1 9 10 20th 11 0 1 1 2
1951/52 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 50 2 4th 6th 11 4th 0 1 1 0
1951/52 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 19th 13 5 18th 11 - - - - -
1952/53 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 12 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
1952/53 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 50 16 12 28 23 10 2 0 2 0
1953/54 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 70 22nd 30th 52 27 5 1 1 2 2
1954/55 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 14th 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
1954/55 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 45 12 13 25th 24 10 3 4th 7th 2
1954/55 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1955/56 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 8th 0 4th 4th 13 - - - - -
OHA Jr. total 17th 13 12 25th
AHL total 192 63 64 127 98 25th 6th 5 11 4th
NHL overall 251 14th 44 58 70 30th 3 9 12 6th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Timgren, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Timgren, Raymond Charles (full name); Golden Boy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1999
Place of death Lindsay , Ontario