Roy Worters

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CanadaCanada  Roy Worters Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1969
Date of birth October 19, 1900
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
date of death November 7, 1957
Nickname Shrimp
size 160 cm
Weight 61 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
1918-1919 Parkdale Canoe Club
1919-1920 Toronto Canoe Club
1920-1922 Porcupine Gold Miners
1922-1923 Toronto Argonauts
1923-1925 Pittsburgh Yellowjackets
1925-1928 Pittsburgh Pirates
1928-1937 New York Americans

Roy "Shrimp" Worters (born October 19, 1900 in Toronto , Ontario ; † November 7, 1957 ) was a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who played from 1925 to 1937 for the Pittsburgh Pirates , Montréal Canadiens and New York Americans in the National Hockey League .

Career

During his junior years he played with Lionel Conacher at the Toronto Canoe Club Paddlers and won the Memorial Cup 1920 with the team . Due to its height of only 1.60 meters, it was nicknamed Shrimp .

In 1923 he joined the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets in the Usaha . Here he was the best goalkeeper in the league and quickly became a crowd favorite. When the NHL brought an NHL team to Pittsburgh with the Pirates for the 1925/26 season , a number of Yellow Jackets players were brought into the team.

The defense of the Pirates was the weak point of the team, but Worters kept his team in the race with good performances. In the first three years he had only missed the Pirates goal in one game and was represented by his coach Odie Cleghorn . For the 1928/29 season he could not agree on a contract with the Pirates and moved to the New York Americans .

The Americans were the weakest team in the league in the previous season, but with a goals against average of 1.15 he brought the team into the playoffs. For this outstanding performance he was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy as Most Valuable Player. At the end of the following season he helped the Montreal Canadiens out in a game to replace the injured George Hainsworth . With only 74 goals conceded, he was the most successful goalkeeper in the 1930/31 season . He remained clean for 324: 40 minutes in four consecutive games. Even if the Americans had little success as a team, they were always excellently filled with Worters in goal. After the 1936/37 season he ended his career.

He died of throat cancer in 1957 . In 1969 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

statistics

Seasons Games Victory cut Conceded goal Shutouts
Regular season 12 484 0.353 2.27 66
Playoffs 4th 11 0.273 2.09 3

Sporting successes

Personal awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Diamond (Ed.): Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 1998, p. 1723, ISBN 0-8362-7114-9


personal data
SURNAME Worters, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worters, Shrimp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1957