Floyd Martin
Floyd " Butch" Martin ( born June 26, 1929 in Floradale, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach.
Career
Floyd Martin began his career as a hockey player with the Waterloo Siskins and Guelph Biltmores, for which he was one year long at junior level active. Then the defender was appointed to the seniors team of Biltmores from the Senior Ontario Hockey Association for the season 1948/49. In the 1949/50 season he ran the first time at the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen. Because of its religion, the devout Mennonite in the aftermath refused to play on Sundays and interrupted his hockey career for half a decade. In the 1955/56 season he played for the Elmira Polar Kings, before he returned to the Kitchener -Waterloo Dutchmen, with whom he represented Canada at the Olympic Winter Games 1956. In the following four years he stayed with the Dutchmen, with whom he represented Canada at the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 again. The 1960/61 season he spent with the amateur team Galt Terriers, before he jets out of the Eastern Hockey League from 1961 to 1964 was a regular for the Johnstown, where he also served as player-coach in season 1962/63. Parallel to the game mode with the Jets, he ran in a total of three games on the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League and the Windsor Bulldogs of the International Hockey League.
In the season 1964/65 Martin took over the position as head coach at the Kitchener Rangers. In the 1967/68 season he was employed by two-year break from hockey as player-coach for the Guelph Mercury's of the Ontario Hockey Association. After his hockey career, he was active as a seller of luxury cars.
Internationally
For Canada, Martin participated in the Winter Olympics 1956 in Cortina d' Ampezzo and in 1960 in Squaw Valley. At the Winter Games in 1956 he won the bronze at the Winter Games in 1960, the silver medal with his team.