Syd Howe

Syd Howe
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1965
Date of birth	September 28, 1911
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
date of death	May 20, 1976
size	178 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1927-1928	Ottawa Gunners
1928-1929	Ottawa Rideaus
1929-1930	Ottawa Senators
1930-1931	Philadelphia Quakers
1931-1932	Syracuse Stars
1932-1934	Ottawa Senators
1934-1935	St. Louis Eagles
1935-1946	Detroit Red Wings
1946-1947	Ottawa Senators
1947-1949	Ottawa Army

Sydney Harris "Syd" Howe (born September 28, 1911 in Ottawa , Ontario ; † May 20, 1976 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who worked for the Ottawa Senators and St. Louis Eagles , Philadelphia Quakers and Detroit Red Wings from 1929 to 1946 played in the National Hockey League .

Career

Howe began ice skating on Patterson Creek and Rideau Canal as a young boy in his hometown of Ottawa . He was in the squad of the Ottawa Gunner Juniors when they were the first team from Ottawa to reach the final series of the Memorial Cup in 1928 . There they were subject to the Regina Pats .

In the 1929/30 season he made his debut in the National Hockey League with the Ottawa Senators . The following season he was loaned to the Philadelphia Quakers . It was the Quakers' only NHL season. After the Senators suspended a year after this season, the Toronto Maple Leafs secured the rights to him in a dispersal draft . Most of the time, however, the Maple Leafs sent him to their farm team, the Syracuse Stars in the International Hockey League .

In the 1932/33 season , the Senators returned to the NHL and he played again in Ottawa. For the 1934/35 season he moved with the team and played a year for the St. Louis Eagles . After the team, which to its financial difficulties from the St. Louis location was now burdened with significantly higher travel costs, after the end of the season the game operations ceased, Howe was sold to the Detroit Red Wings towards the end of the season .

With the Red Wings he made the final breakthrough to become a top performer. In his first full season 1935/36 he won his first Stanley Cup with Detroit . So was also there when Mud Bruneteau decided the longest playoff game in NHL history against the Montreal Maroons . The team was able to defend the title in the following season. In 1939 he was in the roster of the NHL All-Star Game for Babe Siebert . On March 19, 1940, he finished a playoff quarterfinal game against the New York Americans after 25 seconds. For 29 years it was the fastest overtime goal in NHL history. In February 1944, he scored six goals in a game against the New York Rangers . Only in the first NHL season had Joe Malone scored one more goal. He was elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team in 1945 . Howe could be used in all situations, both offensively and defensively, which always earned him a lot of ice age. After the 1945/46 season, he ended his NHL career. With his 528 points he was the most successful NHL player by then, but was overtaken by Boston's Bill Cowley the following season .

A year later, 18-year-old Gordie Howe made his debut in Detroit , but he is not related to Syd. The latter later played in a lower league before ending his active career.

In 1965 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame . He died of throat cancer in 1976 .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	17th	697	237	291	528	212
Playoffs	10	70	17th	27	44	10

Sporting successes

• Stanley Cup : 1936 , 1937 and 1943

Personal awards

• NHL Second All-Star Team : 1945

Web links

• Syd Howe in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
• Syd Howe at hockeydb.com (English)