Brian Conacher
Brian Kennedy Conacher ( born August 31, 1941 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach and functionary, who in his active years from 1958 to 1976 among others for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League as well as the Ottawa Nationals has played in the World Hockey Association.
Career
Brian Conacher began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at the Toronto Marlboros, which until 1962 he was active from 1958 in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey Association. In the 1961/62 season he also made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he remained point and impunity in his only season use. He also completed three games for the Rochester Americans farm team in the American Hockey League. He then attended one year the University of Western Ontario, for their hockey team he played in parallel in the Ontario Universities Athletics Association. From 1963 to 1965 he took part in the preparation for international tournaments with Team Canada. From 1965 to 1968 he was again for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL and their farm team in the AHL Rochester Americans on the ice. With the Toronto Maple Leafs, he won the Stanley Cup in season 1966/67. He also appeared as the reigning champion with his team in the NHL All-Star Game in 1968.
From 1968 to 1971 Conacher once again denied numerous test games for Team Canada. For the 1971/72 season he returned to the NHL in which he scored three goals and an assist for the Detroit Red Wings in 22 games. In parallel, he played for their farm team Fort Worth Wings a total of 47 games in the Central Hockey League, scoring 31 points scorer, 16 goals. For the 1972/73 season of Canadians has been committed by the Ottawa Nationals of the World Hockey Association newly established. For this, he scored nine goals in 74 games and 22 templates. From 1973 to 1975 he was head coach at the Mohawk Valley Comets of the North American Hockey League. In the 1975/76 season he returned for three games again, even in the NAHL on the ice back before he again head coach at the Mohawk Valley Comets was mid-season, which he failed in the first playoff round.
From 1976 to 1978 Conacher was ever a year General Manager of the Indianapolis Racers and Edmonton Oilers of the WHA. Later he was responsible for the Bestrieb hockey stadiums Copps Coliseum and Maple Leaf Gardens.
Internationally
For Canada Conacher participated in the Olympic Winter Games 1964 in Innsbruck and the World Cup in 1965 in part.
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Family
Brian Conacher comes from a family with many years of hockey tradition. His father Lionel Conacher and his uncle Charlie Conacher and Roy Conacher were equally professional ice hockey player like his cousin Pete Conacher.