Ted Kennedy (ice hockey)

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The Duchess of Edinburgh (The future Queen Elizabeth II) is greeted by Kennedy at Maple Leaf Gardens, with Conn Smythe behind, 1951.
Born December 12, 1925(1925-12-12),
Port Colborne, ON, CAN
Died August 14, 2009
(aged 83),
Port Colborne, ON, CAN
Height
Weight		 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb)
Position Centre
Shoots Right
Pro clubs Toronto Maple Leafs
Pro career 1942 – 1957
Hall of Fame, 1966

Theodore Samuel "Teeder" Kennedy (December 12, 1925 – August 14, 2009) was a professional ice hockey centre who played his entire career with the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1942 to 1957 and was captain of the team for eight seasons. He was one of the major stars of the NHL's first dynasty as the Leafs won the Stanley Cup five times within a seven year period. He was known for his leadership, work ethic, playmaking, forechecking and faceoff skills and for scoring important goals. He was considered an exceptional playoff performer and was the first player in NHL history to win five Stanley Cups. He is the last Maple Leaf to win the Hart Trophy for most valuable player. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966.

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[edit] Youth

Ted "Teeder" Kennedy was born Dec. 12, 1925 in the small village of Humberstone[1][2], Ontario,[3][4] which in 1970 was amalgamated into the city of Port Colborne.[5][6] Kennedy's father was killed in a hunting accident eleven days before he was born and his mother was left to raise Ted and his two older brothers. To supplement her income she took a job selling confectionaries at a local hockey arena which became young Ted's second home.[1][7] When Ted was seven years old a family friend took him to Toronto to see the first two games of the 1932 Stanley Cup finals and from watching those games Maple Leaf rightwinger Charlie Conacher became his childhood hero. He wore Conacher's No.9 throughout his minor hockey career.[8]

Kennedy played with the Port Colborne Lions in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association as a bantam, midget and juvenile.[9] His nickname "Teeder" is a shortform of his real name which was used by other neighbourhood boys because they could not pronounce "Theodore" and was overheard by a local reporter with the Welland Tribune.[10][8] In Kennedy's early years with the Leafs, Toronto papers often used the spelling "Teeter".[11] The midget Port Colborne Lions[12] were O.M.H.A. Champions in 1941. On May 7, 1941 at a banquet in Port Colborne honouring the players, one of the speakers was Hap Day, coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He spoke to the championship midget team, advising them that "keen desire" and "hard work" was required to get to the top in hockey as in any job in life and that hockey salaries were "equal to other leading professions". Day then presented members of the team with jackets bearing the championship crest. Among those in attendence was "T. Kennedy, captain". In only two years Ted Kennedy would be playing for Hap Day's Toronto Maple Leafs.[13] The next year Kennedy's juvenile team made it to the finals.[9]

Even though for Kennedy "It was a boyhood dream to play for Toronto"[10] he was first approached by the Montreal Canadiens. It was a Toronto referee, Bert Hedge, who brought Kennedy to the attention Montreal General Manager Tommy Gorman and Kennedy was put on their negotiation list.[14] In the fall of 1942, Montreal contacted the sixteen-year-old about joining the Canadiens. Kennedy's mother placed greater importance on his education than a career in hockey, as he was also headed to study business at the University of Western Ontario,[7][15] but the Montreal scout assured her he would receive a good education at Montreal's prestigious Lower Canada College which they would cover the cost. Upon arriving in Montreal, as a foreshadow of future troubles, he discovered there was no one from the Canadiens to greet him at the train. The teenage Kennedy was left to his own devices to check into a hotel and make his way around the new city. Later, in as he tred to combine hockey and school, he found his grades suffering and asked Canadien management if they could find him accommodation closer to the school. He felt they were unresponsive[15] and he soon became disillusioned with the experience in Montreal, along with feeling homesick.[16] Upon completing spring training with the Montreal Royals, he returned to Port Colborne in mid-November.[17][18]

Back home, Kennedy played with the Port Colborne Sailors of the OHA Sr. league for the 1942-43 hockey season.[9][3] The Port Colborne coach was former NHL star and Hall of Fame inductee Nels Stewart who was a mentor to Kennedy, working on his playmaking skills.[15] Kennedy credits Stewart with teaching him how to "operate in front of the net".[19] Kennedy finished the season second in the league in points, only one point off of first.[20] At the end of the season, in spite of his having abandoned the Royals, Montreal scout Gus Ogilvie was sent to induce Kennedy to sign a contract with the promise that if he signed he would finish the season with the Canadiens.[16] Concerned about his treatment in Montreal, he declined, despite being advised by Ogilivie "Well, you know, Ted, if you turn pro, it will have to be with the Canadiens."[16] Kennedy now thought his dreams of playing in the NHL were over.[15] However, Nels Stewart believed in Kennedy, considering him "a coming great," and recommended him to the Toronto Maple Leafs.[21] Then, in the middle of his high school Latin class, Kennedy was called to the Principal's office. Initially concerned about what he may have done wrong, it was in fact a phone call from Nels Stewart telling him he had arranged a meeting between Kennedy and Frank Selke, General Manager of the Leafs and that he would have to travel to Toronto.[16] Unlike Montreal, the Maple Leafs were there to meet Kennedy when he got off the train.[15] He signed a contract with the Leafs that evening.[8]

[edit] Playing career

The Leafs desired to see Kennedy playing in an NHL game, so late in the 1942-43 season, they received permission from Kennedy's mother to take him out of school so he could accompany them on a road trip. He played in two of the final the three games of the regular season.[8] but did not continue with them into the playoffs. Making his NHL debut March 7, 1943 against the New York Rangers in Madison Square Gardens,[22][23] he was put on the Leafs' third line on rightwing, instead of his customary centre position, and told by coach Hap Day to only "stay with your check and keep him from scoring." Kennedy's line scored three goals and he picked up one assist in a 5–5 tie.[24] He then picked another assist in the next game in Boston. Kennedy's rights were still "officially" owned by the Montreal Canadiens,[25] but he had impressed the Leaf coaches[26] enough that a trade was arranged exchanging Kennedy for Frank Eddolls.[26][27] Toronto newspapers of the day in reporting the trade described the 17-year-old Kennedy as "a rangy youngster whose record in the O.H.A. is exceptionally good", that he was "highly recommended by other hockey men" and was a "high-scoring right-winger".[21][28] Over the years, some have regarded the trade as the best the Toronto Maple Leafs have ever made.[29] Nevertheless, interim manager Frank Selke had made the trade while Conn Smythe, owner of the Leafs, was away in service in World War II and Eddolls was one of his prized prospects. Smythe was furious when he discovered the trade, creating a rift between the two which eventually led Selke to leave Toronto and manage the Canadiens.[30] Ironically, Kennedy would eventually prove to be Smythe's favourite player and he would come to call Kennedy "the greatest competitor in hockey".[10] In 2001, Sports Illustrated writer and Montreal native, Michael Farber, included the Kennedy trade for Eddolls as one of "the five darkest days" in Montreal Canadiens' history.[31]

Although Kennedy was not a gifted skater, he compensated with determination and tireless hard work.[32] Among modern players he has been compared to Bobby Clarke[33] for style of play and Jarome Iginla[34] for character. He brought to the Leafs a classy, humble leadership[27] and the knack for scoring goals when they were most needed.[30] He played a scrambling style of hockey[35] as he would fight for every inch of ice[36] and was difficult to separate from the puck.[27] He was also known for his agility[24], playmaking[37] and passing skills. Hap Day had said he could see Nels Stewart's influence on Kennedy. Like Stewart, Kennedy had a more upright lie on his hockey stick which kept the puck closer to his feet.[38] He was widely believed to be the best faceoff man in hockey[39][30] and would seldom lose an important faceoff.[40] Derek Sanderson, considered the best at faceoffs in the late 60s and 70s, related how his father had him watch Kennedy on the TV to learn the skill.[41]

Kennedy played full-time with the Leafs for the first time with the 1943–44 season. During training camp Kennedy read in a newspaper interview Coach Hap Day speak about the best new prospects among the Leafs. He had failed to mention Kennedy. This fired up Kennedy to give an even greater effort throughout the pre-season. Toronto's first pre-season exhibition game was against the St. Catharine Saints, a senior team, which was now coached by Kennedy's junior coach Nels Stewart. After the game Stewart gave Kennedy some advice about his performance in the game as Kennedy was disappointed he hadn't scored. Until Maurice Richard overtook him in the 1952–53 season, Stewart lead the NHL in career goals.[42] Among the advice Stewart gave was, when facing the goaltender "either draw him out, or pick the corner."[43][44] At just 18 years old, Kennedy would finish the regular season as the team's second best goal-scorer with 26 and was fourth in points.[45] In the playoffs, although winning the first game 3–1 in Montreal, the Leafs were then swept by the Canadiens in the next four and elminated from the playoffs.[46] The Toronto Daily Star said of Kennedy's rookie season, "For our money the best rookie of the year though playing with one of the weakest lines in N.H.L. history."[47] Kennedy was ineligible for the rookie-of-the-year award because of the two games he played with the Leafs at the end of the 1942-43 season.

[edit] The first Stanley Cup and the great upset

In only his second NHL season, Kennedy finished 1944–45 leading the team in goals and points.[30] The Maple Leafs finished in third and would face the Montreal Canadiens in the opening round. The Montreal Canadiens of 1944–45 had achieved a record-breaking season. Dick Irvin, coach of Monteal, declared them as the greatest team to have ever played in the NHL.[48][49] The Montreal club had the top three point leaders in the league, placed 5 of the 6 positions on the All-Star team,[50] Maurice Richard had scored his famous 50 goals in 50 games and Montreal had finished 28 points ahead of the Toronto.[51] As of 2009, the Canadien's winning percentage of 1944–45 is the fifth highest in NHL history and the year previously they had achieved the second highest in history and won the Stanley Cup.[52]

The series would be the first team to win four games of a best-of-seven. The first game was in Montreal and no goals had been scored for the first two periods. In the third period, with just twenty-two seconds remaining, Ted Kennedy banked a backhand shot off the goalpost which then rebounded off goaltender Bill Durnan's pads and into the net to win the game 1–0.[53] In the second game, also in Montreal, Kennedy struck again only four minutes into the first period to put the Toronto team ahead by 1–0. Toronto went on to win the game 3–2 and were able to leave Montreal with a 2–0 series lead.[54][55] Montreal won the next game in Toronto 4–1. Montreal got off to a quick start in the fourth game in Toronto and led 2–0 on goals by Elmer Lach and Richard, his first in the series[56][57], before the game was three minutes old. In the second period, Kennedy set up Mel Hill[58] to get Toronto back in the game and the Leafs went on to win in overtime.[59] As Toronto needed only one more victory to win the series, Montreal was facing elimination in game five in Montreal. Maurice Richard finally overcame Leaf checking and scored four goals in an 11–3 victory.[60] Toronto won the sixth game in Maple Leaf Gardens 3–2 to win the series. Toronto's Elwyn Morris, a defensman who had scored only one goal all season, had dramatically openned the scoring by stealing the puck off of defenseman Frank Eddolls.[61] Eddolls was the player traded to Montreal to bring Kennedy to Toronto. This series is considered one of the greatest upsets in NHL history.[62]

On completion of the Montreal series, the Globe and Mail said of the 19-year-old Kennedy, "Ted Kennedy's all-round display was the best individual performance of the six-game set."[63] The Toronto Star was even more laudatory "There are a few great hockey players in the N.H.L. today. Kennedy is assuredly and emphatically one."[64] Kennedy said that the 1945 upset of the Canadiens was the peak event of his career.[48][65]

Toronto met Detroit in the Stanley Cup final. Toronto won the first three games of the series without giving up a goal, as rookie goaltender Frank McCool recorded consecutive shutouts. Toronto then had to ward off a determined Detroit comeback bid, before winning the Stanley Cup in the seventh game.[66]

[edit] Fame comes to Teeder

In the 1940s the Leafs were a team depleted by their best players participating in the war effort. Many of the players on the Leafs during this period failed to stick with the team once the war ended and the stars returned. However, Kennedy was the exception[37] and he would quickly become one of the team's greatest stars[67] and a favorite of the fans.[68] "Come on, Teeder!" was to become a familiar rallying cry in Maple Leaf Gardens. The cheer, a howl that could be heard throughout the building, was performed by the otherwise quiet fan, season ticket-holder John Arnott whenever the Leafs needed a goal.[69][10][70] As it was not be until the 1952–53 season that Saturday night hockey games were broadcast on television in Canada,[71] it was the radio broadcasts of Foster Hewitt that soon made Kennedy famous across Canada.[72]

Conn Smythe quickly recognized the importance of finding the right line-mates for Kennedy, telling coach Hap Day in September of 1945, "we must get something really rapid to team up with this guy and we'll be set for a decade with a first rate front line." Smythe's first attempt was to acquire future NHL Hall of Famer Edgar Laprade, at the time a star in senior hockey[73] whose rights were owned by the New York Rangers, but a deal was never made as New York General Manager Lester Patrick was asking for several players in return.[74]

Kennedy was ill early in the 1945–46 season season and got off to a slow start with only 5 points in 21 games. Then in January, Kennedy was lost for the season due to an injury to his foot, when a Boston Bruin player's skate dug into his boot.[75] With the Leafs also losing Syl Apps to injury Toronto missed the playoffs.[76][77]

In the off-season, in June of 1946, Kennedy married Doreen Dent of Toronto.[78]

[edit] The NHL's first dynasty

On September 19, 1946, an informal ceremony was held in which former Leaf great Charlie Conacher presented Ted Kennedy with his No. 9 sweater he had worn during his career. Conacher had been Kennedy's boyhood hero, but when Kennedy arrived Lorne Carr already wore No.9. Kennedy was initially given No.12, then switched to No. 10. His Leaf team-mates had always teased Kennedy about his compulsion to have Conacher's number, so when Carr retired the previous season, they contacted Conacher and arranged for the ceremony. Conacher, now working as a broker, explaining why he was willing to take time off work said "He's a good kid and a great player. You just can't disappoint a guy like that."[79]

Conn Smythe instituted a major rebuilding campaign for the 1946–47. Gone from the team was Sweeney Schriner, Lorne Carr, Bob Davidson, Mel Hill, Elwin Morris, Babe Pratt, Billy Taylor and new additions were Harry Watson, Jimmy Thomson, Gus Mortson, Garth Boesch, Joe Klukay, Don Metz, Vic Lynn and Howie Meeker.[80] The team was very young, with six rookies in the lineup, and was felt to be two years away from challenging for the championship.[81] However, some of those rookies, such as Boesch and Meeker, had just returned from the war and were more mature than most. As Hap Day observed, "They'd been through real battles." Kennedy said that during this period, with all the changes on the team and with players returning from the war he had to "re-establish myself as an NHLer."[82][83] Due to Kennedy's poor start to the previous season, there were some questions whether Kennedy was going to turn out to be just a "wartime flash in the pan".[84]

Kennedy now centered a line between Howie Meeker and Vic Lynn and they clicked immediately. Kennedy was the playmaker between the fast skating and goal scoring of Meeker and Lynn.[37] Meeker had just returned from the war and Lynn had come up from the American league and were hungry to stay in the NHL. "We were very eager people", Kennedy recalled.[82] At the end of the season Kennedy led the Leafs in points and they finished in second place to Montreal. In the first round of the playoffs Toronto faced Detroit. Except for a one-sided 9–1 loss[85] in the second game in Detroit, Toronto dominated the series and won in five games. Toronto now faced Montreal for the Stanley Cup. The matchup was between the very young Maple Leafs and the veteran Montreal Canadiens who had dominated the NHL for the past four years. After Toronto lost the opening game 6–0, Canadien goaltender Bill Durnan was quoted in a Montreal newspaper as saying, "How did the Maple Leafs manage to get into the playoffs?"[86] Hap Day used the quote to inspire his team and Toronto defeated Montreal in six games.[87][88][89] Kennedy's line had their best game of the series in the final sixth and deciding game. Montreal had taken an early lead and appeared to be heading for a seventh game in Montreal. In the second period, Lynn tied the game with assists from Kennedy and Meeker. Then in the third with less than six minutes to go in the game Kennedy scored and Toronto held on to win the Stanley Cup.[83] Kennedy finished the playoffs leading the the Leafs in points. Building on his reputation for scoring the important goals, he had scored the game-winning goal in three of the four games Toronto won against Montreal.[90] Despite winning the Stanley Cup the Toronto Maple Leafs did not place a single player on either the first or second All-Star teams.[91][86]

The 1947–48 season brought Max Bentley to Toronto from Chicago in what has been called the biggest trade in NHL history as the Leafs gave up five regular players for the league's scoring leader.[92] Evincing the depth of the team at centre, Bentley played on the team's third line, behind Apps and Kennedy. Thirty years later, Globe and Mail reporter Dick Beddoes stirred up controversy by saying Wayne Gretzky would have been relegated to the fourth line on this Leaf team.[93] The Leafs finished in first place at the end of the regular season.[94] Kennedy had finished the regular season third in points on the team behind the other two star centers Apps and Bentley, but it was Kennedy who was to dominate the playoffs. In the first round Toronto played Boston and eliminated the Bruins in five games with Kennedy scoring four goals in the second game.[95] Contributing to his reputation for clutch goals, he also scored the series winning goal. The fifth and deciding game was tied 2–2 in the third period when Kennedy was carrying the puck into the Boston end. He passed to Meeker, who returned the pass, faked once, moved in front of the net, waited until goaltender Brimseck went down, then lifted the puck over him.[96] Toronto then swept Montreal in four straight games to win the Stanley Cup. Kennedy scored twice in the Cup-winning game[92] and finished leading all players in the playoffs in points with eight goals and five assists.[97]

After a practice in the fall of 1948, at age 23[98], Kennedy was elected captain of the Leafs in a dressing room vote among the players. Captain Syl Apps had retired the previous year.[10] Without Apps and Nick Metz, who had also retired, the Leafs struggled throughout the 1948–49 season. Despite finishing the regular season with a losing record of 23 wins 25 losses and 12 ties, they were able to place fourth, which was the last position qualifying for the playoffs. However, in the first round of the playoffs they defeated Boston in five games. Kennedy had scored the game-winning goal which put Toronto up 3–0 in games.[99] Then, in the finals they swept first-place Detroit in four straight games to win their third consecutive Stanley Cup.[100] Kennedy finished the playoffs with two goals and six assists to lead the Leafs in points and was second only to Detroit's Gordie Howe overall.[101]

This was the first time a National Hockey League team had won three Cups in a row.[102][103] This Toronto Maple Leafs team is distinguished as the first dynasty in the history of the NHL.[104]

[edit] The Gordie Howe Incident

The playoffs of the 1949–50 season are remembered for an on-ice mishap in the opening game between Toronto and Detroit in which the Red Wing's young star player Gordie Howe was seriously injured. Late in the game with Toronto leading 4–0,[105] Kennedy was carrying the puck down the left wing about six feet from the boards into the Detroit end of the rink.[106] He was being pursued from behind by Jack Stewart[107] and by Howe from the side who was trying to cut him off. Kennedy sees Howe coming at the last moment,[108] is able to dodge the check while passing the puck to Sid Smith,[109] but Howe cannot stop and crashes head-first into the boards and Stewart falls onto Howe.[109][110][111][112] Howe sustains a concussion, facial fractures and a lacerated right eyeball. Doctors had to perform emergency procedures to save his life. Detroit coach Tommy Ivan and General Manager Jack Adams accused Kennedy of butt-ending[113] Howe. Kennedy had not been assessed a penalty on the play. After the game Kennedy said, "I don't know how he got it. I avoided his check along the boards and didn't feel anything hit me, although he may have struck my stick."[105] Toronto sports writer Red Burnet argued it was impossible for him to have butt-ended Howe since he was a right-handed shot and the butt-end of his stick would have been towards the boards.[109] Detroit sports writer Tommy Devine[114] who was in the press box was quoted, "I don't think Kennedy hit him, because if he had, he'd have been tangled up and unable to give a pass."[109] Later, NHL Commissioner Clarence Campbell who was at the game, and also seated near where the incident occured,[115] after receiving a report from the game's referee said the injury was not Kennedy's fault.[116][111][117] Howe was lost from the playoffs, but the incident influenced the momentum of the series. The Detroit team concentrated on attacking Kennedy physically, while the Detroit fans verbally abused him and the Detrioit press attacked him in print. The second game of the series was a violent and fight-filled affair which Detroit won to even the series. After the game Clarence Campbell threatened the players with fines if the violent play continued and both teams got back to hockey for the remainder of the series.[117] However, Detroit was now determined to "win the series for Gordie".[118] Detroit defeated the Leafs in seven games to eliminate them from the playoffs and went on to win the Stanley Cup.[10][115] In recovery from his hospital bed, Howe said, "Ted is too good a player to deliberately injure another player."

Years later, goaltender Harry Lumley and defenceman Red Kelly, both with Detroit at the time, in speaking of the incident supported the view that Kennedy was not at fault.[119][120] Gordie Howe, while believing that he had been hit by the butt-end of the stick, has said that there was no intent to injure and considered his injuries self-inflicted.[121][122] However, the incident still continues at times to be described as a deliberate act by Kennedy. In 2001, the Sporting News ran an article on the 30 toughest players in the NHL. In referring to Howe's injury, the incident was described as "he was knocked heavily into the boards by Toronto's Teeder Kennedy".[123]

[edit] The Final Cup

Except for being left with a life-long facial tick,[124] Howe made a full recovery and for the 1950–51 season as he finished the season leading the league in points. The Maple Leafs finished in second place behind Detroit.[125] Kennedy finished second on the team in points behind Bentley[126] and tied with Howe for the league lead in assists with 43.[127][128] In the first round of the playoffs Montreal upset Detroit and Toronto defeated Boston. The Stanley Cup final between Montreal and Toronto went five games, but is remarkable as each game went into overtime to be decided.[129] In the third game, with the series tied at one game a piece, Kennedy was twice the hero in the overtime. First, he prevented a goal by clearing a puck that was heading into the Toronto net, then, just fifty seconds later at the other end of the rink, he intercepted a clear-out pass[130] from Montreal's Calum MacKay and scored to win the game.[131] The fourth game of the series was won by Toronto so they led the series 3–1. It was in the next game of the series which Leaf's Bill Barilko scored one of the most famous goals in NHL history when he scored in overtime to win the Stanley Cup for Toronto.[132] However, prior to that dramatic moment, Montreal had been leading late in the game 2–1 and it appeared that the teams would be playing a sixth game in Montreal. Then with 39 seconds remaining in the game, Toronto was able to get a faceoff in the Montreal end. Toronto coach Joe Primeau had pulled the goaltender so they could have six skaters. Primeau had the option of changing his players, but decided to leave Kennedy out to take the faceoff. Initially, it appeared Kennedy would be facing Canadien Billy Reay on the faceoff, but Montreal coach Dick Irvin decided to put his best line on the ice. Instead Kennedy would be facing Lach. Kennedy recalled later he was relieved at the switch as he had trouble with Reay on faceoffs, but when Lach came out he felt "I had a chance,"[39] Kennedy won the faceoff from Lach, got the puck to Bentley and from a scramble around the net Tod Sloan tied the game. The goal dispirited the Montreal team and led to Barilko's famed overtime goal.[133]

Kennedy had said that without the Howe incident of the previous season "we probably would have been the first team to win 5 in a row."[10]

[edit] Latter years

The 1950-51 season would be Kennedy's last Stanley Cup. In the years following until Kennedy's retirement in 1957 the Leafs would either finish out of the playoffs or lose in the first round. However, Kennedy continued to play productive hockey.[68]

On November 7, 1951 the Leafs and the Chicago Black Hawks played an afternoon exhibition of hockey, prior to their regularly scheduled evening game, for Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, during her visit to Canada. It was captain Teeder Kennedy, representing the players, who greeted the Princess at the game.[134] Kennedy said it was a thrilling moment and recalled thinking at the time, "Here's a kid from the little village of Humberstone, Ontario being presented to the Queen."[7]

During Detroit Red Wing's Ted Lindsay's attempts to form a player's union in the 1950s, he was approaching selected leaders among the other five NHL teams. Although Kennedy was the lone holdout, Lindsay respected Kennedy because he never informed Conn Smythe about being approached. According to Glenn Hall's autobiography, when Smythe discovered Kennedy hadn't told him about Lindsay's attempts, Smythe "ostracized" his captain.[135] There was speculation that this incident led to Kennedy failing to land a job with the Leafs after retirement.[136]

At the end of the 1953–54 season, Kennedy announced his intentions to retire. Conn Smythe told reporters he had tendered Kennedy "the highest offer ever made a hockey player". This was a raise above his $25,000 yearly salary (approximately $200,000 in today's dollars[137]) according to a contemporary newspaper report.[98] Smythe said that Kennedy had told him that lately he felt "he hadn't produced in proportion to what he's been paid." However, Smythe insisted the Leafs needed Kennedy as Toronto was a young team.[138]

Smythe was able to talk Kennedy into playing the 1954–55 season. At the conclusion of the season, he would win the Hart Memorial Trophy[98], for most valuable player, and is the last Toronto Maple Leaf to have won the trophy.[27] To this point Kennedy had had an impressive career. He had played on five Stanley Cup teams, something no other NHL player had achieved at the time. Toronto had only missed the playoffs twice during his eleven years, one of which Kennedy was injured. By age 22 he had won three Stanley Cups and was the youngest player to have scored 100 goals. Yet, Kennedy had never won an award, nor been elected to a first All-Star team.[138] Awarding Kennedy the Hart was considered as much as an acknowledgement of his career as his performance in the season.[67] Although he did finish third in the league in assists, Kennedy along with first ever Hart recipient Frank Nighbor, are the only forwards to have won the award without finishing in the top ten in league scoring.[139][140] After the Leafs were swept in four straight games in the playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings, Kennedy announced his retirement.[69]

Although missing the entire 1955–56 season, he came out of retirement briefly to play half of the 1956–57 season to help the Leafs who were short on players due to injuries and were struggling. He scored 22 points in 30 games, but the Leafs finished out of the playoffs.[141][30] He shared the captaincy with Jim Thomson.[142] Kennedy was captain when on March 16, 1957 the Maple Leafs scored 14 goals against the New York Rangers.[143] Kennedy got four assists in what is the Leafs all-time record for goals in a single game.[144][145] When it became clear the team would miss the playoffs he sat out the last two games so the management could have a look at a young Frank Mahovlich. Kennedy was quoted as saying, "It was time for a new generation to lead the team."[69]

[edit] Retirement

He continued for a short time after retirement as a salesman with Canadian Building Materials, who he had worked with during his hockey career in the off-season, but soon left the company.[146][147] In 1957–58, he was the second coach of the Peterborough Petes OHA "Junior A" team before being succeeded by Scotty Bowman. He returned to Port Colborne to raise thoroughbred horses which was an occupation he had been involved during his hockey career. He was also a steward or judge with the Ontario Racing Commission and head of security at Fort Erie Racetrack.[10]

In 1966 Ted Kennedy was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. An arena in Port Colborne, the Teeder Kennedy Youth Arena[148][149], is named in his honour.[98][150]

In 1993, Kennedy, along with Syl Apps, were honoured in a pre-game ceremony by having banners raised at Maple Leaf Gardens.[4]

We are looking up at the ceiling of an arena where there are nine banners hanging. On each banner is the picture of a hockey player in a Toronto Maple Leaf uniform. Above each player's photo is a number and the player's name
Banners honouring Leafs of the past including Ted Kennedy, #9 fourth from the right, hanging at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto

Kennedy died on August 14, 2009, in a nursing home[151][98] in his hometown of Port Colborne, Ontario, of congestive heart failure. Kennedy is survived by his wife Doreen, son Mark, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.[69]

In order to retain a consistent shape of the Stanley Cup, as there is only sufficient space for thirteen teams on each of the five lower bands, team names can only remain on the cup for 64 years. In 2005 the band for teams from 1941 to 1953 were removed and placed on display, thus Teeder Kennedy's name no longer appears on the Stanley Cup.[152]

[edit] Legacy

Some sportswriters consider Kennedy the greatest player to have played for the Toronto Maple Leafs[15][153][154][155] and he has appeared on lists of the best players in NHL history. In The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players he was ranked #57.[156] However, the Feb.19, 2009 edition of The Edmonton Journal produced a list of top 50 NHL players of All-Time which was compiled using the voting for the Hart and Conn Smythe trophies. Ted Kennedy finished at #10 All-Time, ahead of all other Maple Leafs and such players as Howie Morenz and Patrick Roy.[157][158] When the list was adjusted to account for the fact that goalies and defensemen are traditionally overlooked for the Hart, Kennedy's ranking improved to #8. In the book The Maple Leafs Top 100 Kennedy is ranked second only to Dave Keon as the best Toronto Maple Leaf of all time.[1][27]

Kennedy had the reputation for excelling in the playoffs.[26] He was the first NHL player to have played on five Stanley Cup teams. He holds the Toronto Maple Leafs' record for career points in Stanely Cup finals with 23.[159] As of 2005, he is the youngest player in the history of the NHL to have scored a Stanley Cup winning goal when he scored the winning goal in game 6 in 1947 at 21.4 years of age.[160]

His face-off skills were highly regarded and since during Kennedy's era there were many more face offs than there are today, it was an invaluable skill. The April 27, 1998 issue of Sport Illustrated published "The Best Ever on the Draw", a poll of NHL experts of the top ten players of all time for skills on the faceoff, and Kennedy was ranked at #1.[41]

[edit] Career statistics

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; SC = Won Stanley Cup

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1942–43 Port Colborne Sailors OHA Sr. 23 23 29 52 15 — — — — —
1942–43 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 2 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
1943–44 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 49 26 23 49 2 5 1 1 2 4
1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 49 29 25 54 14 13 7 2 9 2 SC
1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 21 3 2 5 4 — — — — —
1946–47 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 60 28 32 60 27 11 4 5 9 4 SC
1947–48 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 60 25 21 46 32 9 8 6 14 0 SC
1948–49 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 59 18 21 39 25 9 2 6 8 2 SC
1949–50 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 53 20 24 44 34 7 1 2 3 8
1950–51 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 63 18 43 61 32 11 4 5 9 6 SC
1951–52 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 19 33 52 33 4 0 0 0 4
1952–53 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 43 14 23 37 42 — — — — —
1953–54 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 67 15 23 38 78 5 1 1 2 2
1954–55 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 10 42 52 74 4 1 3 4 0
1956–57 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 30 6 16 22 35 — — — — —
NHL totals 696 231 329 560 432 78 29 31 60 32

Sources: Total Hockey[161] hockey-reference.com[162]

[edit] Notes

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Preceded by
Al Rollins		 Winner of the Hart Trophy
1955		 Succeeded by
Jean Béliveau
Preceded by
Syl Apps		 Toronto Maple Leafs captain
1948–55		 Succeeded by
Sid Smith
Preceded by
Jimmy Thomson		 Toronto Maple Leafs captain
1956–57		 Succeeded by
George Armstrong
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