Fido Purpur | |||
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Born |
Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S. | September 26, 1914||
Died |
February 21, 2001 Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S. | (aged 86)||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | ||
Weight | 155 lb (70 kg; 11 st 1 lb) | ||
Position | Right wing | ||
Shot | Left | ||
Played for |
St. Louis Eagles Chicago Black Hawks Detroit Red Wings | ||
Playing career | 1933–1947 | ||
Coaching career | |||
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||
1949–1956 | North Dakota | ||
Head coaching record | |||
Overall | 94–75–6 (.554) | ||
Clifford Joseph "Fido" Purpur (September 26, 1914 – February 21, 2001) was an American ice hockey player who played five seasons in the National Hockey League for the St. Louis Eagles, Chicago Black Hawks, and Detroit Red Wings between 1934 and 1945. He also played several years of minor hockey, primarily with the St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey Association. After retiring he became a coach, and led the University of North Dakota from 1949 to 1956.
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University of North Dakota: Tour of Lower-Level Renovations to Ralph Engelstad Arena (2014-15)
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(music) I'm Dane Jackson, assistant coach here at UND hockey. Just thought we'd take you through our new renovation. This is our main area where our players come down on a day-to-day basis. Our offices used to be upstairs at Ralph Engelstad Arena. Now we're downstairs by our players. This is where we come through, our main, kind of front area where we go into our offices are down here. Our receptionist, Whitney, takes care of us and organizes us, but kind of a waiting area and offices back in there. Right here, a couple of our Hobey Baker award winners, Tony Hrkac in 1987 and Ryan Duncan in 2007. On this side, some of our different awards. Some of the yearly awards we give out to different players. Archie Krum and Fido Purpur, Jeff Anderson, Tom Hoghaug, our rookie of the year. Here we have our current team. So we've never really done this before, but we just have a picture and a bio on each of our current players, their positions, height and weight, year they're in, where they're from, previous team and what major they're taking. Here's the championship tradition wall. We talk a lot about the players and coaches and teams that have come before us and the tradition they've built at UND hockey, so we have our seven national champions. All right, we're going to take you through our Grand Hallway, where the guys enter. In here, we tried to capture the spirit of our tradition over the years, so we have all the different jerseys from the different eras and years. This one, I think, was one of the very first years, 1948 and 49. Ralph Engelstad played in that era. All different years, right from the late '40s to the current day. We have some different stories about different ones. "Through These Doors Walk Champions." Kind of a saying we have around here, obviously, and we like our guys to continually be reminded that that's what we're here for is to win championships and make sure they know the standard of excellence that has been put here from the years before. Here is our NHL wall. These are all the players over the years of UND hockey. Big picture of Jonny Toews and Matt Greene on one end, and on the far end, we have a picture of Zach Parise and T.J. Oshie. And in the middle, just all the different 30 NHL teams, players that have come through UND hockey and have played at least one game in the NHL. On this side, we have all the players all-time that have been drafted to the NHL. Now we're taking you back into our office area and coaches lounge, recruiting lounge. In here a lot of times, we'll meet with families and recruits in here. Kind of a traditions wall we have. It was a tough list to put together but we have about 50 names, some great players, again great coaches. If we want to have the room private, we can gloss over the glass and make it a private meeting. All right, we'll head into our locker room here. So we wanted to "close in" our locker room, make it a little tighter, smaller feel. A lot of the new locker rooms around the NHL are more circular or oval. This is where we can do some drill demonstration if we want here. Kind of a neat Smartboard. Eric is back here folding socks, doing his thing. He takes care of all the guys' equipment kind of in this area, right besides the rink. Here we have the seven national championship trophies, Broadmoor Trophy. This is the hallway we head out toward the ice surface, and a quote from Ralph, we refer to: "No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work." Always a good one, This is where we head out to the ice surface. So this is our lounge area, where our guys' favorite thing is playing ping pong. Our ping pong rankings, Nick Schmaltz just won the tournament, beat out Johnny SImonson in the finals. We've got some computers, a place to watch TV, a lounging area to kind of lay down. Sometimes on game days, our guys take a nap back there. In here, it's really nice, where we're pretty fortunate we have breakfast, kind of a light breakfast and lunch out for our guys each day. We also eat our pre-game meals in here. Little area to honor our guys that played in the World Junior Championships over the years. On this side, we have our Stanley Cup champions. I think our first was Craig Ludwig back in 1986. Just below him, Matt Greene, 2014. Fun to have Matt bring back the Stanley Cup back last summer. Down here, we have our NHL major award winners, starting back with Troy Murray winning the Selke as best defensive forward back in 1985-86. Here we have a spot to honor our Olympians, most recently in Sochi in '14, Toews, Parise and Oshie were all in there. And in here, this is where we do all our video. Coach Hakstol will do a lot of 5 on 5 play, where he'll have our kind of pre-scout of the other team, about their key players and their tendencies. Our area was really nice before. We're fortunate, I know Coach Hakstol's always wanting us to be doing things and be a top team in the program and the Engelstads allowed us with their gift to, for recruiting purposes mainly, but also the kind of comfort and functionality of our players, to be around the rink a lot, work on their game, whether it be lifting weights or going out and shooting pucks more, or be in the lounge to just hang out with the team or study or whatever it may be. We're extremely fortunate and feel very privileged to be part of UND hockey and try to add to the tradition here at UND.
Career
Purpur played for the Minneapolis Millers winning a CHL championship in 1934 and went on to play 25 games for the St. Louis Eagles the following season becoming the first person born in North Dakota to play in the National Hockey League. After the Eagles folded the players were disbanded to other NHL teams and Purpur was selected by Toronto.[1] If the NHL ever resold the franchise, proceeds were to go to the Ottawa Hockey Association.[2] Rather than join the Leafs Purpur remained in Missouri and signed on with the AHA's St. Louis Flyers. Purpur played the next six seasons with the Flyers, winning 38 regular season titles and 4 league championships while being one of the top scorers for the team. In 1941 Purpur left St. Louis and joined the Kansas City Americans but received a brief call-up for his second stint in the NHL for the Chicago Black Hawks. In 78 games Purpur recorded no points and he was returned to Kansas City for the remainder of the year.
Due to America's entry into World War II several NHL rosters were depleted of talent and the league scrambled to find replacements. Chicago brought Purpur back and this time he was able to play a full 50-game season, posting 13 goals and 16 assists but Chicago missed out on the playoffs by 1 point when they lost the final two games of the year. Purpur was finally able to make his playoff debut for the Black hawks the next year and, while his team made the finals, they were swept out by the Montreal Canadiens. Purpur split his time in 1944-45 between Chicago and Indianapolis of the newly-formed AHL but after the Capitals bowed out in the first round of the playoffs Purpur made his final appearance in the NHL by appearing in seven playoff games for the Detroit Red Wings. with the war over in 1945 Purpur returned to the minors and finished his playing career in 1947.
Coaching career
A few years after retiring Purpur returned to North Dakota to take over the program at UND. Purpur would spend seven seasons with the Fighting Sioux and shepherded the team through the early years of conference play. His best season came in 1952–53 with a 15-5 record and a third-place finish in the MCHL. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974[3][4] and was awarded North Dakota's highest honor, the Roughrider Award in 1981. During his coaching career, Purpur coached his younger brother Ken.[5] In 1988, he received the Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
1931–32 | Grand Forks Falcons | HS-ND | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1932–33 | Minneapolis Millers | CHL | 37 | 13 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
1933–34 | Minneapolis Millers | CHL | 44 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 79 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
1934–35 | Minneapolis Millers | CHL | 14 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1934–35 | St. Louis Eagles | NHL | 25 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1935–36 | St. Louis Flyers | AHA | 47 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | ||
1936–37 | St. Louis Flyers | AHA | 32 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||
1937–38 | St. Louis Flyers | AHA | 48 | 23 | 15 | 38 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||
1938–39 | St. Louis Flyers | AHA | 48 | 35 | 43 | 78 | 34 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | ||
1939–40 | St. Louis Flyers | AHA | 46 | 32 | 38 | 70 | 44 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | ||
1940–41 | St. Louis Flyers | AHA | 46 | 25 | 16 | 41 | 32 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | ||
1941–42 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1941–42 | Kansas City Americans | AHA | 39 | 18 | 30 | 48 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 10 | ||
1942–43 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 50 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1943–44 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 40 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
1944–45 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 21 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1944–45 | Indianapolis Capitals | AHL | 26 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
1944–45 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
1945–46 | St. Louis Flyers | AHL | 56 | 18 | 15 | 33 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1946–47 | St. Paul Saints | USHL | 56 | 15 | 23 | 38 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
AHA totals | 306 | 153 | 162 | 315 | 207 | 47 | 22 | 20 | 42 | 30 | ||||
NHL totals | 144 | 25 | 35 | 60 | 46 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Head coaching record
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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North Dakota Fighting Sioux (Independent) (1949–1951) | |||||||||
1949–50 | North Dakota | 15–6–2 | |||||||
1950–51 | North Dakota | 12–12–2 | |||||||
North Dakota: | 27–18–4 | ||||||||
North Dakota Fighting Sioux (MCHL) (1951–1953) | |||||||||
1951–52 | North Dakota | 13–11–1 | 6–6–0 | 4th | |||||
1952–53 | North Dakota | 15–5–0 | 11–5–0 | 3rd | |||||
North Dakota: | 28–16–1 | 17–11–0 | |||||||
North Dakota Fighting Sioux (WIHL) (1953–1956) | |||||||||
1953–54 | North Dakota | 14–12–1 | 9–6–1 | 3rd | |||||
1954–55 | North Dakota | 14–13–1 | 9–12–1 | 6th | |||||
1955–56 | North Dakota | 11–16–1 | 7–13–0 | t-5th | |||||
North Dakota: | 39–41–3 | 23–31–2 | |||||||
Total: | 94–75–8 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- ^ "St Louis Out of Title Hunt: League Buys Franchise Splits Players Among Remaining Eight Clubs". The Leader-Post. 1935-10-16.
- ^ Coleman, Charles L. (1967). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 2, 1927–1946 inc. Montreal, Quebec: National Hockey League.
- ^ "Blackhawks Members in the Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2006-06-23. Retrieved 2006-11-20.
- ^ U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
- ^ Jessen, Chris (June 6, 2011). "Olympic medalist has quite a legacy". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Hockey-Reference.com
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