Larry Hillman
Lawrence Morley " Larry " Hillman ( born February 5, 1937 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active years from 1952 to 1976 among others for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota North Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres played in the National Hockey League and the Cleveland Crusaders and Winnipeg Jets in the World Hockey Association.
Career
Larry Hillman began his career as a hockey player in the Ontario Hockey Association, in which he was active for the Windsor Spitfires and the Hamilton Tiger Cubs from 1952 to 1955. Even during the 1954/55 season he gave for the Detroit Red Wings made his debut in the National Hockey League, for whom he ran aground in six games of the regular season and three playoff games and with whom he won the prestigious Stanley Cup straight away. In the following season drew the defender with his team in the Stanley Cup Finals, where they but the Montreal Canadiens defeated. After serving in the season 1956/57, mainly for Detroit's farm team, which ran aground Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League, he left the team from Michigan and joined their league rivals Boston Bruins at, for which he spent the next three seasons in the NHL and with whom he failed in the season 1957/58 again in the Stanley Cup final at Montreal.
In the summer of 1960, Hillman was hired by the Toronto Maple Leafs, with whom he four times won the Stanley Cup in the next eight years. In addition, he played regularly for their farm team of the American Hockey League, the Springfield Indians and the Rochester Americans, where he three times the Calder Cup won with Rochester. During the 1968/69 season the Canadians stood first for the Oakland Seals and finally the Montreal Canadiens on the ice. With the latter he won for the sixth and last time in his career, the Stanley Cup. In the following years played the links contactors for the Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres in the NHL before he moved to the competing World Hockey Association in 1973, where he initially two seasons for the Cleveland Crusaders, and then a year for the Winnipeg Jets ran aground, where he won in the 1975/76 season with the Jets, the Avco World Trophy. After this success, he ended his active career.
Even after end of his career as a player was the Hillman Winnipeg Jets faithful. For the season 1977/78 he took this as a head coach and led them again to win the Avco World Trophy. He then withdrew from the Hockey. While being held in Toronto in 2000 Heroes of Hockey Game of the former defender the Toronto Heroes of Hockey attended.
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Family
His older brother Floyd and his younger brother Wayne are also former NHL players. Also Hillman's nephew Brian Savage played a long time in the NHL.