93,758 profiles ranked live

Tiny Thompson

✓ Source-basedfalling

Canadian ice hockey goaltender: first goaltender to stop the puck by catching it (1903-1981)

CanadaAthletesLived 1903 to 1981 · aged 77
Compare
Fame46.2
MomentumNot measured
Languages16
In century#60,857

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.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Also inDeutsch

Photos 1

Teams 2

Detroit Red Wings1938-1940
Boston Bruins1928-1939

Awards 6

1959Hockey Hall of Fame
1938Vezina Trophy
1936Vezina Trophy
1933Vezina Trophy
1930Vezina Trophy
Stanley Cup

Connected to Tiny 6

About this person

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.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Country
Canada
Category
Athletes
Type
Athlete
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1903 to 1981 · aged 77
Wikipedia
16 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.