Tim Ecclestone
Tim James Ecclestone (* September 24, 1947 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active years from 1965 to 1978 among others for the St. Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Tim Ecclestone was already in the second round as a whole ninth player selected as a junior player in the NHL Amateur Draft 1964 by the New York Rangers, for whom he never played, however. After his junior time at the Etobicoke Indians and the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey Association, he was in the summer of 1967, committed by the newly founded St. Louis Blues, for which he had the following four seasons, long active in the National Hockey League, before the February 6 was released along with Red Berenson in exchange for Garry Unger and Wayne Connelly on the Detroit Red Wings in 1971, for in the NHL, he was on the ice for another three years.
At the beginning of the 1972/73 season, the Toronto Maple Leafs acquired in exchange for Pierre Jarry the rights to the player. By the end of the season the Canadians finally denied a total of 50 games for the Maple Leafs, where he scored 24 scorer points, including nine goals. Shortly after the start of the season 1974/75 left Ecclestone his hometown again to aground for the Atlanta Flames, where he ended his career in 1978. In his last season in professional hockey Ecclestone also scored four points scorer, including a goal in six games for the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League.
Then Ecclestone remained of his crew from Atlanta faithful, he worked as an assistant coach until 1980. When the team was relocated to Calgary in Canada prior to the 1980/81 season, where it played from now on as Calgary Flames, the former winger left the franchise and retired from hockey.