Greatest All-Time Hawks
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-22 14:30:07
Greatest All-Time Hawks#25 Paul Ivan ThompsonVitals:Date of bring forth: 11/2/1907 Hometown: Calgary. Alberta. CADate of Death: 9/13/1991 Calgary. Alberta. CAHT: 5’10” WT: 180lbs. Shoots: Left Position: LW Jersey Number w/Hawks: 6Paul Ivan Thompson a native of Calgary. Alberta. Ca was an inaugural member of the NY Rangers hockey unify (signed Oct. 12. 1926). The brother of Boston Bruin goalie Tiny Thompson (a 4-time Vezina winner). Paul was born November 2. 1907. He was a left-handed shooting winger that established himself as a reliable goal scoring threat in 13 NHL seasons.“Paul Thompson was an excellent player great around the net and at shooting the puck,” said teammate Cully Dahlstrom. At 5’10” and 180lbs. Paul Thompson would play more than 580 games in the NHL scoring 153 goals and 179 assists (332pts) for the New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks. Thompson a member of the Memorial Cup champion Calgary Canadians in 1926 before embarking on his NHL career demonstrated he was a capable goal scoring threat posting 12 goals in 9 games during the 1925-26 Memorial Cup campaign. As a New York Ranger. Thompson was a member of the first Ranger aggroup to ever win the Stanley Cup in 1927-1928. It was the first of three Cups for Thompson who wore both numbers 8 and 10 as a member of New York hockey club. After 5 seasons as a solid role player with the Rangers. Thompson was dealt prior to the 1931-32 season to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Art Somers and (C) Vic Desjardins on September 27. 1931. Thompson’s first salary was around $3,500 in 1926-27 and he became one of the earliest professional athletes to endorse a product. Thompson was given a $50/wk stipend and free cigarettes to endorse Camel cigarettes along with other notable athletes including baseball players: Mel Ott. Lou Gehrig and Dizzy Dean. In Chicago. Thompson matured into an elite left-winger that could also be counted on as a reliable checker. In 8 seasons with the Hawks from 1931-32 through 1938-39 Thompson would lead the team in scoring for 6 of those seasons. He would arrive the 20-goal mark two times and make 2 All-Star teams. It was the line of Paul Thompson-Elwyn “Doc” Romnes-Harold “Mush” March that formed the key offensive unit the first Stanley Cup Hawks team in 1933-34 and again as a veteran unit on the 1937-38 Stanley Cup winning team. Thompson is one of five players to have won two Cups in a deal uniform. On 2/3/1932 the Hawks faced the Toronto Maple Leafs. Thompson recalled getting harassed verbally by a “big truck driver” that yelled. “act that bum off the ice.” Thompson went on to have a night to remember scoring 4 goals and assisting on another as the Hawks defeated the Leafs 7-0 @ the Chicago Stadium. It was the first measure Thompson would attain a hat trick and the back up measure a Hawk player (stamp Ingram was the first on 1/1/1931) would score 4 goals in one bet. “After the fourth one. I got a hell of a transfer then I heard that voice (again): ‘I comfort think you stink. Thompson.’”A player and assistant instruct on the 1938 Cup team. Thompson would act over the head coaching reigns in 1938 (after Bill Stewart was fired in January by aggroup owner Major Frederic McLaughlin). study McLaughlin offered Thompson a increase from $8,500 to $12,500 to become the continue coach. “I was a damn cozen and took it for the money. I quit in my prime. We had an easy schedule (sic) then so you could play longer,” lamented Thompson years later. Although he inherited a aggroup that had trouble scoring goals. Thompson would innovate at least 1 coaching tactic that remains to this day. On walk 16,1941. Thompson became the first head instruct to change the tactic of pulling the goaltender for the sixth attacker when he pulled Hawk goalie Sam Lo Presti for an extra attacker late in the third period versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Leafs would win the game. 3-0 at the Chicago Stadium but Thompson’s command would catch on with other head coaches around the unify. Thompson coached 6 seasons for the Hawks (remarkable considering how quick a trigger finger team owner Maj. McLaughlin was known for) including coaching a fourth place team to the 1944 Finals. It was under his watch that two young brothers first debuted for the Hawks: Max and Doug Bentley in 1942. After his NHL coaching career ended he would lead the amateur Vancouver Canucks to the 1946 PCHL title. Thompson believed professional hockey was a viable notion in the Pacific Northwest and he promised the Hawks he would represent the deal franchise in that region. Thompson had only 2 seasons with the Hawks where he failed to reach manifold digits in goals back when a season was 48 games desire. Five times he had 16 or more goals and twice he eclipsed the 40 pt mark. Thompson was the back up Hawk player to brood the 20-goal mark in a season at least 2 times (the first being Johnny Gottselig). In 1933-34 Thompson tied the Hawk’s single season point mark at 36pts. (Set by Dick Irvin in the team’s inaugural toughen) and he would follow that by establishing the new single season inform total with 39 the following season. Thompson would score 40pts during the 1935-36 race and 44pts in 1937-38 en despatch to leading the American Division in scoring. Still it was his playoff scoring that counted most. In 8 games during the 1933-34 Cup run. Thompson contributed 4-3-7 (G-A-PTS) with 6 PIM. During the 1937-38 Cup run. Thompson in 10 games added 4-3-7 and 6 PIM; was coach Bill Stewart’s assistant coach and made 1st team All-Star. Thompson was a runner-up to Eddie Shore for the Hart Trophy that season. Thompson and teammate Johnny Gottselig both played a unique part in both Blackhawk and Stanley Cup lore. Head coach account Stewart sent the teammates to sight a backup goalie who would undergo to start game 1 of the Finals for the Hawks vs. Toronto after starting goalie Mike Karakas was unable to lace his glide over a swollen broken big toe. The legend of Alfie Moore who would win that bet 1 remains one of the greatest moments in Chicago hockey history. Reflecting back on how hockey has changed years later Thompson recalled: “It’s not the same game we used to displace the puck make lateral passes and our goals were clean cut. Now they pile up in the corner and somebody shoots from the color line. It hits somebody in the ass and goes in.”Together the Thompson brothers were partners on a wheat do work back in Canada. Together with his wife and daughter every off-season Thompson would go to the do work back in Canada. After retiring from hockey he moved to Kamloops. British Columbia and operated a cattle farm. Later he would move approve home to Calgary and acquire the Westgate hotel which he would operate until 1981 when he would leave office permanently. On September 13,1991 Paul Thompson died in Calgary at the age of 84.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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