Tim Ecclestone

Tim Ecclestone
Date of birth	September 24, 1947
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1964 , 2nd lap, 9th position New York Rangers
Career stations
1965-1966	Etobicoke Indians
1966-1967	Kitchener Rangers
1967-1971	St. Louis Blues
1971-1973	Detroit Red Wings
1973-1974	Toronto Maple Leafs
1974-1988	Atlanta Flames

Timothy James Ecclestone (born September 24, 1947 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who worked for the St. Louis Blues , Detroit Red Wings , Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta from 1965 to 1978 Flames has played in the National Hockey League .

Career

Tim Ecclestone was selected as a junior player in the 1964 NHL Amateur Draft in the second round as the ninth player of the New York Rangers , for which he never played. After his junior years with the Etobicoke Indians and the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey Association, he was committed in the summer of 1967 by the newly formed St. Louis Blues , for which he was active for the following four seasons in the National Hockey League , before joining February 6, 1971 together with Red Berenson in exchange for Garry Unger and Wayne Connelly was given to the Detroit Red Wings , for which he was on the ice for another three years in the NHL.

At the beginning of the 1972/73 season, the Toronto Maple Leafs acquired the rights to the player in exchange for Pierre Jarry . By the end of the season, the Canadian finally played a total of 50 games for the Maple Leafs, in which he scored 24 scorer points, including nine goals. Shortly after the start of the 1974/75 season, Ecclestone left his hometown again to play for the Atlanta Flames , where he ended his career in 1978. In his last season in professional hockey Ecclestone also scored four points, including one goal, in six games for the Tulsa Oilers from the Central Hockey League .

Then Ecclestone remained loyal to his team from Atlanta, for which he worked as an assistant coach until 1980. When the team relocated to Calgary , Canada, before the 1980/81 season , where it played as the Calgary Flames from then on , the former winger left the franchise and retired from ice hockey.

Achievements and Awards

• 1967 OHA Jr. Second all-star team
• 1971 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	11	692	126	233	359	344
Playoffs	6th	48	6th	11	17th	76

Web links

• Tim Ecclestone at hockeydb.com (English)
• Tim Ecclestone at legendsofhockey.net (English)