# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-backstrom
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:12.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-backstrom"
name: "Ralph Backstrom"
slug: "ralph-backstrom"
description: "Ralph Gerald Backstrom was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and later a coach, entrepreneur and hockey executive. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, and Chicago Black Hawks between 1956 and 1973. He also played in the World Hockey Association with the Chicago Cougars, Denver Spurs/Ottawa Civics, and New England Whalers from 1973 to 1977. With the Canadiens, he won the Stanley Cup six times, and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's rookie of the year in 1959. After retiring he served as head coach of the University of Denver Pioneers for several years in the 1980s."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player (1937-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chex_Ralph_Backstrom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1937-09-18"
deathDate: "2021-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.7
  momentum:             0.973630831643002
  historical:           7.905618666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ральф Бекстром"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "رالف باكستروم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Backstrom"
    title: "Ralph Backstrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Backstrom"
    title: "Ralph Backstrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Backstrom"
    title: "Ralph Backstrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Backstrom"
    title: "Ralph Backstrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84"
    title: "Бекстром, Ральф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Backstrom"
    title: "Ralph Backstrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Backstrom"
    title: "Ralph Backstrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344073"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump