Tom Reid

Tom Reid
Date of birth	June 24, 1946
place of birth	Fort Erie , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1964-1967	St. Catharines Black Hawks
1967-1969	Chicago Black Hawks
1969-1988	Minnesota North Stars

Thomas Allan "Tom" Reid (born June 24, 1946 in Fort Erie , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who in the course of his active career between 1964 and 1978, among other things, 743 games for the Chicago Black Hawks and Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League on the position of defender .

Career

Reid spent his junior years between 1964 and 1967 with the St. Catharines Black Hawks in the Ontario Hockey Association . Over the period of three years, the defender completed 162 games for the Black Hawks and scored 62 points scorer . At the end of his senior year, which was personally his most successful, he was elected to the OHA's First All-Star Team. He also made his professional debut at the end of the 1966/67 season with the St. Louis Braves from the Central Professional Hockey League .

Due to the expansion of the National Hockey League for the 1967/68 season with an expansion from six to twelve teams, Reid received a place in the roster of the Chicago Black Hawks at the beginning of the season . For the Black Hawks he completed a year and a half game until February 1969, before he was transferred to the Minnesota North Stars together with Bill Orban . In return, the Chicago Black Hawks secured the services of André Boudrias and Mike McMahon junior .

The 22-year-old Canadian finally found a sporting home with the Minnesota North Stars. He stayed with the North Stars for the remainder of the current and nine following seasons and was one of the first identifying figures of the still young franchise in the course of the 1970s. In the second half of the 1970s, however, the defensive player developed skin problems that severely hampered him both in the game and in everyday life and finally forced him to retire from active sport during the 1977/78 season . As a result, the team doctors discovered that Reid had developed an allergy to the materials used in his playing clothes.

After retiring, Reid worked for twelve years as a commentator on the game broadcasts for the Minnesota North Stars. After the North Stars moved to Dallas, he filled this post with the University of Minnesota ice hockey team . Since 2000 he has been in charge of the radio broadcasts for the Minnesota Wild .

Achievements and Awards

• 1967 OHA First All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1964/65	St. Catharines Black Hawks	OHA		56	4th	13	17th	106		5	1	0	1	11
1965/66	St. Catharines Black Hawks	OHA		45	3	15th	18th	74		7th	0	0	0	44
1966/67	St. Catharines Black Hawks	OHA		45	5	19th	24	120		4th	0	2	2	2
1966/67	St. Louis Braves	CPHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1967/68	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		56	0	4th	4th	25th		9	0	0	0	2
1967/68	Dallas Black Hawks	CPHL		3	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
1968/69	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		30th	0	3	3	12		-	-	-	-	-
1968/69	Dallas Black Hawks	CHL		3	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1968/69	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		18th	0	4th	4th	38		-	-	-	-	-
1969/70	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		66	1	7th	8th	51		6th	0	1	1	4th
1970/71	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		73	3	14th	17th	62		12	0	6th	6th	20th
1971/72	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		78	6th	15th	21st	107		7th	1	4th	5	17th
1972/73	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		60	1	13	14th	50		6th	0	2	2	4th
1973/74	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		76	4th	19th	23	81		-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		74	1	5	6th	103		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		69	0	15th	15th	52		-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		65	0	8th	8th	52		2	0	0	0	2
1977/78	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		36	1	6th	7th	21st		-	-	-	-	-
OHA total				146	12	47	59	300		16	1	2	3	57
C (P) HL total				16	0	7th	7th	12		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				701	17th	113	130	654		42	1	13	14th	49

( 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 )

Web links

• Tom Reid at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Tom Reid at eliteprospects.com (English)