Ted Hampson
Edward George "Ted" Hampson ( born December 11, 1936 in Togo, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( center ) and coach, from 1959 to 1976 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals California Golden Seals and and Minnesota North Stars played in the National Hockey League as well as for the Minnesota Fighting Saints and Quebec Nordiques in the World Hockey Association.
Career
Hampson played during his junior time in the Flin Flon Bombers successful in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. Three times he played with this team to the Memorial Cup, which he won in 1957. The transfer of rights to his person had at that time the New York Rangers, but first he played in the American Hockey League with the Providence Reds and for the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League.
After the Rangers had no interest in him, committed him the Toronto Maple Leafs. Here he was even often used for the Rochester Americans in the AHL, but he came in the season 1959/60 to 41 operations at the Leafs. When the Rangers einsahen that they had made a mistake in the non- commitment, they brought him back in the summer of 1960. In the following two seasons, he was a regular for the Rangers after he was also repeatedly used in the third season with the Baltimore Clippers in the AHL, it came at the end of the season for separation. He moved to the Detroit Red Wings, but in the first two years he came to only eight missions and played mainly in the Pittsburgh Hornets in the AHL. Only in the season 1966/67, he could gain a foothold. When the NHL was expanded the following year, from six to twelve franchises, followed by the middle of the next season of change to the Oakland Seals. Here he counted from the beginning of the best scorers of the team. In the 1968/69 season he set with 26 goals, 49 templates and 75 personal bests on. Only after the relocation of the franchise to Cleveland Dennis Maruk could surpass the levels scarce. He took part in this year's NHL All-Star Game and was awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. Over the 1970/71 season he joined the Minnesota North Stars.
For the 1972/73 season he returned to the NHL back, and not moved to the New York Islanders, who had selected him in the NHL Expansion Draft in 1972, but within the city to the Minnesota Fighting Saints of the World Hockey Association newly established. Here he was awarded the fairest player in his first season with the Paul Deneau Trophy. After the Saints had set 1975/76den game operating in the season, he moved up to the end of the season for the Quebec Nordiques.
After his first coaching position at the Bloomington Jr. Stars in the Mid- Western Junior Hockey League, he took over as player-coach the Oklahoma City Stars in the Central Hockey League. As a result, he was a scout for the North Stars, and the Central Scouting Bureau of the NHL. He then moved to the St. Louis Blues, for which he also worked as a scout at first, but later became vice president and sports director. Since 2003 he has been chief scout for the Colorado Avalanche.
His son Gord played in the early 1980s four games for the Calgary Flames.
Statistics
Sporting successes
- Memorial Cup: 1957
Personal Awards
- SJHL First All -Star Team: 1957
- Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy: 1969
- Paul Deneau Trophy: 1973
- Participate in the NHL All-Star Game: 1969