George Grigor

George Grigor
Born (1916-09-03)September 3, 1916
Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
Died October 7, 1979(1979-10-07) (aged 63)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight 150 lb (68 kg; 10 st 10 lb)
Position Centre
Shot Right
Played for Chicago Black Hawks
Playing career 1936–1948

George Edward Grigor (September 3, 1916 — October 7, 1979) was a Canadian ice hockey centre who played 2 games in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1943–44 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1936 to 1948, was mainly spent in senior leagues.

Biography

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but grew up in Toronto, Ontario and played junior with the local Young Rangers. In his final year of junior, 1935–36, he also played in the Toronto Mercantile Hockey League with the Toronto Dominions. He spent the next three years with a variety of commercial and OHA Senior A clubs before joining the Baltimore Orioles of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League in 1939. He recorded consecutive 20-goal seasons with Baltimore before returning to Toronto. Between 1941 and 1950, he continued to play for teams in the Mercantile league, the Toronto Hockey League's commercial division, and the OHA Senior A league.

On January 6, 1944, while a member of Stafford Industries of the Toronto Mercantile Hockey League, he made his NHL debut with the Chicago Black Hawks, scoring their only goal in a 6–1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens.[1] His only other NHL appearance was a few weeks later, on January 28, when the Black Hawks again visited Toronto. The Globe and Mail reported that the Black Hawks would have liked to sign Grigor, but his job in a war plant kept him in Toronto.[2]

He died at Toronto in 1979.[3]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1934–35 Toronto Young Rangers OHA 9 3 2 5 11 2 1 0 1 0
1935–36 Toronto Young Rangers OHA 11 8 6 14 25 2 0 0 0 0
1935–36 Toronto Dominion TIHL 16 3 4 7 16 — — — — —
1936–37 Toronto Dominion TIHL 9 1 3 4 12 3 0 1 1 4
1938–39 Niagara Falls Brights OHA Sr 20 4 11 15 48 — — — — —
1938–39 Niagara Falls Brights Al-Cup 7 6 5 11 28 — — — — —
1939–40 Baltimore Orioles EAHL 59 21 23 44 58 9 2 7 9 9
1940–41 Baltimore Orioles EAHL 59 22 32 54 95 — — — — —
1941–42 Toronto Marlies OHA Sr 25 9 12 21 71 6 0 3 3 10
1941–42 Toronto Kodaks TMHL 11 8 13 21 4 7 1 4 5 8
1942–43 Toronto Research Colonels OHA Sr 10 6 15 21 6 — — — — —
1942–43 Toronto Staffords TIHL 18 11 17 28 42 6 2 5 7 6
1943–44 Toronto Staffords TIHL 26 14 36 50 20 7 3 4 7 34
1943–44 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1944–45 Toronto Staffords OHA Sr 8 1 4 5 8 — — — — —
1944–45 Toronto People's Credit TIHL 29 18 26 44 20 6 5 10 15 4
1945–46 Toronto People's Credit TIHL 29 13 20 33 23 5 1 4 5 14
1946–47 Toronto People's Credit TIHL 27 12 27 39 51 3 0 0 0 10
1947–48 Toronto People's Credit TIHL 26 7 25 32 22 5 0 2 2 12
EAHL totals 118 43 55 98 153 9 2 7 9 9
NHL totals 2 1 0 1 0 — — — — —

See also

References

  1. ^ Andy Lytle, "Leaf Kidlets Pot Hawks Like You'd Shoot Fish," Toronto Daily Star, January 7, 1944, p. 10
  2. ^ "Grigor With Hawks Again; Injury May Bench Don Webster," The Globe and Mail, January 29, 1944, p. 15
  3. ^ "Deaths", The Globe and Mail, October 10, 1979, pg. 49