Hockey coach.
Born at Winnipeg on 5 January 1928, he attended Daniel McIntyre Collegiate and coached minor and junior hockey for 40 years, starting in 1944 with the Downing Parks Board Team, while working as a trader with a major grain company in Winnipeg. He managed the MJHL Winnipeg Rangers for ten seasons, during which time the team won the MJHL championship three times. He was a scout for the NHL Philadelphia Flyers (1967-1977). In 2005, he was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame. He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 23 June 2014.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 25 June 2014.
We thank Kevin Rollason for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 January 2015
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