Syd Howe
Sydney Harris " Syd " Howe ( born September 28, 1911 in Ottawa, Ontario, † May 20, 1976 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who from 1929 to 1946 for the Ottawa Senators and St. Louis Eagles, Philadelphia Quakers and Detroit Red Wings played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Howe began as a small boy in his hometown of Ottawa on the Patterson Creek and the Rideau Canal to run with skates. He stood in the cadre of Ottawa Gunner Juniors as this was the first team from Ottawa in 1928 the final series to the Memorial Cup reached. There they were subject to the Regina Pats.
In the season 1929/30 he gave at the Ottawa Senators made his debut in the National Hockey League. The following season he was loaned to the Philadelphia Quakers. It was the only NHL season the Quakers. After the Senators this season after exposing a year, the Toronto Maple Leafs secured the rights to him in a dispersal draft. The Maple Leafs sent him but most of the time to their farm team, the Syracuse Stars in the International Hockey League.
In the season 1932/33, the Senators returned to the NHL and he was playing in Ottawa. For the season 1934/35 he moved with the team and played one year for the St. Louis Eagles. After the team was that now loaded to its financial difficulties from its site in St. Louis with significantly higher travel costs, after the season stopped the operation of gambling, Howe was sold towards the end of the season to the Detroit Red Wings.
When the Red Wings he made the final breakthrough to the service provider. In his first full season in 1935/36 he won his first Stanley Cup with Detroit. So was there when Mud Bruneteau chose the longest playoff game in the NHL history against the Montreal Maroons. The team in the next season to defend the title. In 1939 he was in the squad of NHL All-Star Game for Babe Siebert. On March 19, 1940, he ended a quarter-final playoff game against the New York Americans in 25 seconds. For 29 years this was the quickest overtime Gate in the NHL history. In February 1944, he scored six goals in a game against the New York Rangers. Only in the first NHL Season Joe Malone had once scored a goal more. He was in 1945 elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team. Howe was used in all situations, both offensively and defensively, what he always introduced much ice age. After the 1945/46 season, he finished his NHL career. With 528 points, he was until then the most successful NHL players, but was overtaken by Boston's Bill Cowley in the following season.
A year later gave Detroit the 18 -year-old Gordie Howe his debut, which is not related to Syd. The latter played later in a lower league, before he ended his active career.
In 1965 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He died in 1976 in pharyngeal cancer.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup: 1936, 1937 and 1943
Personal Awards
- NHL Second All-Star Team: 1945