acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (02/09/85)
A few weeks ago, a Tim Horton donut shop opened near where I live. I know it's
part of a chain--there's another in Fort Erie, right across from the Peace
Bridge. What I'd like to know is: What are the connections between the
donut chain and the late great hockey player of the same name, if any? Is it
owned by his family? If not, are they getting royalties for the right to use
his name?
For those that don't remember, Tim played for the Detroit Red Wings in the
middle to late '60's, before he started playing for the Buffalo Sabres in
1970. (I don't remember exactly how and when he was acquired.) He was
tragically killed in an auto crash (on the QEW?) in the early part of 1973.
Someone who remembers No. 2,
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Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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BITNET: ACSGJJP@SUNYABVAjeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (02/11/85)
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.
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Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073
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