Sid Abel

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CanadaCanada  Sid Abel Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1969
Sid Abel
Date of birth February 22, 1918
place of birth Melville , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death February 8, 2000
Place of death Farmington Hills , Michigan , United States
size 180 cm
Weight 77 kg
position Center / left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1936-1937 Saskatoon Wesleys
1937-1938 Flin Flon Bombers
1938-1939 Pittsburgh Hornets
1939-1943 Detroit Red Wings
1943-1944 Montreal RCAF
1944-1945 Lachine Rapides
1945–1952 Detroit Red Wings
1952-1954 Chicago Black Hawks

Sidney Gerald "Sid" Abel (born February 22, 1918 in Melville , Saskatchewan ; † February 8, 2000 in Farmington Hills , Michigan ) was a Canadian ice hockey player ( center / left winger ), coach and general manager who worked from 1939 to 1954 for played the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League .

Career

In 1995, the Detroit Red Wings hung his number 12 as a banner on the ceiling in Sid Abel's honor. The number has not been awarded to a Red Wings player since then

As a junior he played in 1936 with the Saskatoon Wesleys for the Memorial Cup and later with the Flin Flon Bombers for the Allan Cup , but could not win any of these trophies.

In the 1938/39 season he made his debut with the Detroit Red Wings , but it took a few years before he could prevail in the NHL. He won his first Stanley Cup in the 1942/43 season . At that time he played with Don Grosso and Eddie Wares in the Liniment Line . He spent the years between 1943 and 1945 in the army and was therefore absent from his team. At the end of the 1945/46 season he played seven more games and was able to fully intervene in the following season. Now Abel, now 29 years old, was given the young Gordie Howe , then 19, and Ted Lindsay , then 22, by his side. Together as the " Production Line " they were the strongest assault line in the NHL at the time and made the first three places on the scorer list in the 1949/50 season . As captain of the Red Wings, he won the Stanley Cup again in 1950 and 1952. At the age of 34 he received an offer from Chicago to act as a player-coach and the Red Wings released him. After two years with the Black Hawks, he ended his active career.

In 1957 he returned to Detroit as a coach and in 1962 also took over the job of general manager. In 1971 he took over the St. Louis Blues for ten games and a few years later coached the Kansas City Scouts for three games .

Sid Abel was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1969 .

His grandson Brent Johnson , born in 1977, was a goalkeeper in the NHL.

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1937/38 Flin Flon Bombers SSHL 23 12 16 28 13 8th 4th 4th 8th 17th
1938/39 Detroit Red Wings NHL 15th 1 1 2 0 6th 1 1 2 2
1938/39 Pittsburgh Hornets IAHL 41 22nd 24 46 27 - - - - -
1939/40 Detroit Red Wings NHL 24 1 5 6th 4th 5 0 3 3 21st
1939/40 Indianapolis Capitals IAHL 21st 7th 11 18th 10 - - - - -
1940/41 Detroit Red Wings NHL 47 11 22nd 33 29 9 2 2 4th 2
1941/42 Detroit Red Wings NHL 48 18th 31 49 45 12 4th 2 6th 8th
1942/43 Detroit Red Wings NHL 49 18th 24 42 33 10 5 8th 13 4th
1943/44 Montréal RCAF QSHL 7th 5 4th 9 12 - - - - -
1943/44 Montréal Canada Car MCHL 2 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
1944/45 Montréal RCAF MCHL 4th 6th 8th 14th 4th - - - - -
1944/45 Lachine Rapides QPHL 2 2 2 4th 0 - - - - -
1945/46 Detroit Red Wings NHL 7th 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 0 0
1946/47 Detroit Red Wings NHL 60 19th 29 48 29 3 1 1 2 2
1947/48 Detroit Red Wings NHL 60 14th 30th 44 69 10 0 3 3 16
1948/49 Detroit Red Wings NHL 60 28 26th 54 49 11 3 3 6th 6th
1949/50 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 34 35 69 46 14th 6th 2 8th 6th
1950/51 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 23 38 61 30th 6th 4th 3 7th 0
1951/52 Detroit Red Wings NHL 62 17th 36 53 32 7th 2 2 4th 12
1952/53 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 39 5 4th 9 6th 1 0 0 0 0
1953/54 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 3 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
IAHL in total 62 29 35 64 37 - - - - -
NHL overall 612 189 283 472 376 97 28 30th 58 79

( 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 )

Sporting successes

Personal awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Diamond (ed.): The official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League - Total Hockey 1998, Andrews McMeel Publishing, p. 647
  2. ^ Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Fischlers' Ice Hockey Encyclopedia. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1979, p. 2, ISBN 0-690-01856-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Sid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abel, Sidney Gerald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Melville ( Saskatchewan , Canada )
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2000
Place of death Farmington Hills , Michigan , United States