Paul Henderson

Paul Garnet Henderson ( born January 28, 1943 in Kincardine, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( left wing ), which respectively from 1962 to 1980 for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League and the Toronto Toros Birmingham Bulls. played in the World Hockey Association. He gained special notoriety when in 1972 he scored the decisive goal in the Summit Series.

Career

Henderson has already been taken as a teenager by the Detroit Red Wings under contract. This sent him to their junior team to the Hamilton Red Wings in the Ontario Hockey Association. In a team with Lowell MacDonald and Pit Martin, they won the 1962 Memorial Cup.

Thanks to good performances he came during the season 1962/63 also to his debut in the NHL when he was allowed to accumulate in two games. The following year, he still commuted between the Red Wings and the AHL farm team, the Pittsburgh Hornets. From the season 1964/65 he had then fought for his place in a forward line with Pit Martin and Larry Jeffrey. Although an injury to a break of 24 games in the season forced him 1966/67, get him this season for the second time in a row, more than 20 results. In March 1968, he was then part of a large exchange business. Together with standard Ullman sent him to the Red Wings to Toronto. In return, the Red Wings Frank Mahovlich, Pete Stemkowski, Garry Unger and the rights to Carl Brewer received.

In a forward line with standard Ullman and the young Ron Ellis Henderson showed strong performances at the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the 1971/72 season he scored 38 goals and was nominated for this good performance even in the squad of the Canadian team at the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet national team. In the first four games in Canada, the hosts were not as successful as hoped, because Canada won only one game in itself. In addition to a draw two games were lost. Henderson scored twice. With two wins in the first three games in Moscow resembled Canada from the series. In these three games, Henderson was the most successful attacker with four goals and contributed two wins the decisive goal at. Shortly before the end of the eighth and decisive game, the game was a draw. From the Canadian bench, he called on Pete Mahovlich for replacement. After he left the ice, to Henderson intervened in the attack and scored 34 seconds before the end of the highly acclaimed hit, the series was able to win by Canada.

The attacker remained two more seasons with the Maple Leafs before he moved to the World Hockey Association for local rivals, the Toronto Toros. The WHA had planned against the Soviet national team, the Summit Series in 1974 and since it was opportune that Henderson now again stood as a hero of the last series in the squad.

After the dissolution of the WHA, he returned once for 30 games with the Atlanta Flames in the NHL. In the following season he ended his active career in the Central Hockey League.

Statistics

Sporting successes

  • Memorial Cup: 1962

Personal Awards

  • Max Kaminsky Trophy: 1963
  • Participate in the NHL All-Star Game: 1972 and 1973
  • Member of the Order of Canada: 2012
  • Inclusion in the IIHF Hall of Fame: 2013
  • Order of Hockey in Canada: 2013

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