Paul Johnson (ice hockey)
Paul Herbert Johnson ( born May 18, 1937 in West St. Paul, Minnesota ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 he won the gold medal as a member of the U.S. national team.
Career
Paul Johnson began his career as a hockey player in the amateur and played 1954-1960 for the St. Paul Saints amateur teams, Roch Rochester Mustangs, St. Paul Koppys and Green Bay Bobcats. From 1958 to 1960 he also participated with Team USA at the Olympic preparation. For the 1960/61 season the winger of the St. Paul Saints of the professional International Hockey League was committed. He spent the following two years with their league rivals Minneapolis Millers. With the Millers, he failed in the season 1962/63 until the playoff final for the Turner Cup at the Fort Wayne Komets. For the season 1963/64, he the Waterloo Blackhawks joined from the then acting as Amateur League United States Hockey League. In the season 1964/65 he went to Des Moines Oak Leafs for from the IHL, with whom he also the Fort Wayne Komets only lost in the Turner Cup Finals. The Oak Leafs, he also started the following season, before returning to the Waterloo Black Hawks in the USHL, where he stood up to his Karrieende 1973 at the age of 36 years on the ice.
Internationally
For the U.S., Johnson participated in Squaw Valley and 1964 in Innsbruck at the Olympic Winter Games 1960. At the Winter Games in 1960 he won the gold medal with his team. In addition, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1958, 1959 and 1961.