Weston Adams

Sir Weston W. Adams ( born August 9, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, † March 19, 1973 ) was the son of Charles Adams and many years the president and CEO of the Boston Bruins.

In 1932 he became president of the Boston Tigers in the Canadian - American Hockey League and in 1936 he took over the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League from his father Charles Adams. During his time with the Bruins, the team's NHL finished by 1937/38, bis 1940/41, always in first place and won the Stanley Cup in 1939 and 1941. When World War II began, he joined the army at a naval commander.

After the war, Adams was first talent scout in North America and in 1956 Chairman of the Bruins. From 1964 to 1969 he was president and in that time players like Bobby Orr, Wayne Cashman, Dallas Smith, Don Awrey, Don Marcotte, Derek Sanderson and Ed Westfall were gedrafted for the team. He developed the concept of the sixth attacker ( here the goalkeeper is taken out in favor of a sixth field player ) and secured the important connections between the Boston Braves ( AHL ) and the Bruins, as the Braves had lost by enlarging the NHL a lot of players on the Bruins.

Adams stepped down as president in 1970 and handed the office to his son Weston Adams junior. In 1972 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.