Tim Horton
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1977 | |
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Date of birth | January 12, 1930 |
place of birth | Cochrane , Ontario , Canada |
date of death | February 21, 1974 |
Place of death | St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada |
size | 178 cm |
Weight | 82 kg |
position | defender |
Shot hand | Right |
Career stations | |
1946-1947 | Copper Cliff Junior Redmen |
1947-1949 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors |
1949-1952 | Pittsburgh Hornets |
1952-1970 | Toronto Maple Leafs |
1970-1971 | New York Rangers |
1971-1972 | Pittsburgh Penguins |
1972-1974 | Buffalo Sabers |
Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton (born January 12, 1930 in Cochrane , Ontario ; † February 21, 1974 in St. Catharines , Ontario) was a Canadian ice hockey player and entrepreneur who, in the course of his active career between 1951 and 1974, among other things, 1572 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs , New York Rangers , Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . In the service of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Horton, who is one of the best defensive players of the 1960s and was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981, won the Stanley Cup four times between 1962 and 1967 . During his active time as a hockey player, he was already an entrepreneur and founded Canada's largest coffee and donut chain that bears his name . Horton died in a car accident on the way from Toronto to Buffalo .
Career
At the age of five, Horton began playing ice hockey in the youth leagues of Northern Ontario. As a junior he played for St. Michael's College Majors in the Ontario Hockey Association . He was considered one of the greatest defensive talents of his time, but the start in the NHL was not as successful as expected.
In the 1949/50 season he made his NHL debut with the Toronto Maple Leafs , but except for a game in the regular season and a playoff game, he spent the time until late in the 1951/52 season with the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League . The high expectations still weighed on his shoulders, but now he made the breakthrough and developed into a top defender. After his first appointment to the Second All-Star Team in 1954, he was thrown back towards the end of the coming season by a tough check from Bill Gadsby . He broke his leg and seriously injured his face. He only returned to the ice in the middle of the 1955/56 season. For the 1958/59 season he got the defensively strong Allan Stanley to the side, which gave him more freedom on the offensive.
As the top defender of the Maple Leafs, he led his team to three Stanley Cup wins in a row from 1962 to 1964 . The attempt of coach Punch Imlach to put him in the attack with center George Armstrong and another defender Red Kelly failed thoroughly, even if Horton set a personal best with 12 goals in one season. After another Stanley Cup victory in 1967, in which the Leafs were the oldest cup-winning team in history, the team fell apart. Many players ended their careers and Horton also considered giving up ice hockey for his donut chain. By doubling his salary, the Leafs persuaded him to extend his contract, with 16 years of experience making him the longest serving defender in the squad.
In 1969 he moved to the New York Rangers , for whom he played two years. A season with the Pittsburgh Penguins was followed by a move to the Buffalo Sabers . From there he could also drive to Toronto between games. On one of these trips home he had a fatal accident near St. Catharines, when he his De Tomaso Pantera - sports car h at a speed of 160 km / lost control and was thrown from his car. He was found to have twice the amount of blood alcohol above the legal maximum . In 1977, Tim Horton was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1946/47 | Copper Cliff Junior Redmen | NOJHA | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14th | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
1947/48 | St. Michael's College | OHA Jr. | 32 | 6th | 7th | 13 | 137 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1948/49 | Toronto St. Michael's Majors | OHA Jr. | 32 | 9 | 18th | 27 | 95 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1949/50 | Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 60 | 5 | 18th | 23 | 83 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1949/50 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1950/51 | Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 68 | 8th | 26th | 34 | 129 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 16 | ||
1951/52 | Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 64 | 12 | 19th | 31 | 146 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 16 | ||
1951/52 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1952/53 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 2 | 14th | 16 | 85 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1953/54 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 7th | 24 | 31 | 94 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | ||
1954/55 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 67 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 84 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1955/56 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 35 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
1956/57 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 66 | 6th | 19th | 25th | 72 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1957/58 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 53 | 6th | 20th | 26th | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1958/59 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 5 | 21st | 26th | 76 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | ||
1959/60 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 3 | 29 | 32 | 69 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | ||
1960/61 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 57 | 6th | 15th | 21st | 75 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1961/62 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 10 | 28 | 38 | 88 | 12 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 16 | ||
1962/63 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 6th | 19th | 25th | 69 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 10 | ||
1963/64 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 9 | 20th | 29 | 71 | 14th | 0 | 4th | 4th | 20th | ||
1964/65 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 12 | 16 | 28 | 95 | 6th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 | ||
1965/66 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 6th | 22nd | 28 | 76 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | ||
1966/67 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 70 | 8th | 17th | 25th | 70 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 8th | 25th | ||
1967/68 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 69 | 4th | 23 | 27 | 82 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1968/69 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 74 | 11 | 29 | 40 | 107 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7th | ||
1969/70 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 59 | 3 | 19th | 22nd | 91 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1969/70 | New York Rangers | NHL | 15th | 1 | 5 | 6th | 16 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 28 | ||
1970/71 | New York Rangers | NHL | 78 | 2 | 18th | 20th | 57 | 13 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 14th | ||
1971/72 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 44 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 40 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
1972/73 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 69 | 1 | 16 | 17th | 56 | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||
1973/74 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 55 | 0 | 6th | 6th | 53 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
OHA Jr. total | 65 | 15th | 25th | 40 | 232 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
AHL total | 192 | 25th | 63 | 88 | 358 | 24 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 32 | ||||
NHL overall | 1446 | 115 | 403 | 518 | 1611 | 126 | 11 | 39 | 50 | 183 |
( 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 )
Tim Horton's fast food chain
In 1964, Horton opened its first Tim Hortons donut shop in Hamilton . In 1965, his partner and investor Ron Joyce joined the company, which from then on expanded rapidly and became Canada's largest coffee and donut chain. At the time of Tim Horton's death in 1974, the chain, which was continued by Ron Joyce, had 40 branches. In 2014, the year it was acquired by Restaurant Brands International (the owner of Burger King ), the chain had 4,590 stores in Canada, the United States and Gulf Cooperation Council countries .
Horton's stake was sold by Tim Horton's widow, Lori, to his partner Ron Joyce in 1975 for a million Canadian dollars and a Cadillac Eldorado .
Web links
- Tim Horton in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
- Tim Horton at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fresh Facts. In: timhortons.com. Retrieved May 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Tim Horton: hockey's brand name ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) by Adrian Dater, Sports Illustrated (engl.)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Horton, Tim |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Horton, Miles Gilbert (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player and entrepreneur |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cochrane , Ontario |
DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1974 |
Place of death | at St. Catharines , Ontario |