Marty Pavelich
Marty Pavelich ( born November 6, 1927 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played during his career for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League.
Career
Marty Pavelich started his career in 1944 at the Galt Red Wings in the Ontario Hockey Association, where he played three years Hockey. On September 9, 1947, he signed his first contract as a professional player with the Detroit Red Wings. He started the season 1947/48 at the Indianapolis Capitals in the American Hockey League, for whom he was in 26 games in use. Pavelich still earned in the same season a regular place with the Red Wings and managed with the team from Detroit a place in the finals for the Stanley Cup, but lost in four games against the Toronto Maple Leafs. A year later, he increased his previous year's figures and shot ten goals, 17 assists and was collected 27 points in 69 games.
But like last year, the team was defeated in the finals already in four games against the Toronto Maple Leafs and missed winning the trophy. In the 1949/50 season he made his point average from the previous year and defeated in the first round of the Maple Leafs in seven games. Even the embattled final series against the New York Rangers - the last four games ended with a one goal difference - it was decided in game seven when the Red Wings in the second overtime, the winning goal shot to victory. 1952 Pavelich won his second Stanley Cup with the team and sat in the finals against the Canadiens de Montréal through. 1954 and 1955 he won the trophy two more times.
Pavelich four times was invited to an NHL All-Star Game, had each won in the same year as he with the Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup. In Detroit, he played mostly with Tony Leswick and Glen Skov in a row. In 1957, he ended his career, but a year later he received from Jack Adams, then general manager in Detroit, a renewed contract offer he rejected, however. Later he worked with Ted Lindsay as an entrepreneur.