# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tiny-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:52:01.139Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tiny-thompson"
name: "Tiny Thompson"
slug: "tiny-thompson"
description: "Cecil Ralph \"Tiny\" Thompson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A goaltender, he played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), first for the Boston Bruins and later for the Detroit Red Wings. A four-time Vezina Trophy winner, Thompson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959. He was a member of one Stanley Cup-winning team, as a rookie in the 1928–29 season with the Boston Bruins. At the start of the 1938–39 season, after ten full seasons with Boston, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings, where he completed the season, and played another full one before retiring. During his NHL career, he recorded 81 shutouts, the sixth-highest of any goaltender. After retiring from playing, he coached lower-league teams before becoming a noted professional scout. Thompson helped popularize the technique of the \"glove save\" which was catching the puck with his hands as a method of making a save. A competent puckhandler, he was the first goaltender in the NHL to record an assist in 1936 by passing the puck with his stick to a fellow player."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey goaltender: first goaltender to stop the puck by catching it (1903-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tiny_Thompson.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: "1903-05-31"
deathDate: "1981-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.15702133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Тайні Томпсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تيني تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Thompson"
    title: "Cecil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinijs_Tompsons"
    title: "Tinijs Tompsons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B8"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Thompson"
    title: "Tiny Thompson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1389891"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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