Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey Subject: Re: Tim Horton Donuts Message-ID: <1378@dciem.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 11:31:39 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1378 Posted: Mon Feb 11 11:31:39 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 20:44:33 EST References:Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Distribution: na Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 28 Summary: Tim Horton Donuts is a popular chain in southern Ontario, and it looks like it's now moving into western New York. It was started by Tim Horton the hockey player while he was still playing, probably while he was playing for Toronto in the late 60's. I'm not sure who has been running it since his death. Horton's best hockey years were spent with Toronto in the 60's, where he anchored the defence of three Stanley Cup winning teams. He was one of the best defensive defensemen in the league (he had at least one very good year offensively too, but in those days that didn't matter), and he had a reputation as one of the strongest men in the league. The Leafs management figured he was too old (he must have been about 40 by then) to help their rebuilding team in 1970, so they traded him to the New York Rangers. Buy they were wrong. He still had a few good years left so former Leafs GM Punch Imlach grabbed him from Pittsburgh to supply much-needed experience for his new team in Buffalo. Despite the fact that he was well into his forties, Horton gave the Sabres a few years of excellent service, and I'm sure his experience helped develop the careers of young defensemen like Jim Schoenfeld and Jerry Korab. However, Horton was always a fun-loving guy and he loved to drive fast cars, and one night, after being selected first star for a game in Toronto, a sort of homecoming for him, he was driving his fast car back to Buffalo in bad weather when he went over a guard-rail and was killed on the QEW near St. Catharines. The Sabres retired sweater number 2 in his honour. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff