Gump Worsley

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Lorne John "Gump" Worsley (May 14, 1929 – January 26, 2007) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, 'Gump' was given his nickname because friends thought he looked like a comic-strip character Andy Gump. He spent the first seven seasons of his hockey career in various minor leagues before joining the NHL in 1952 with the New York Rangers. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy for his play as a rookie for a team that finished in last place. He was demoted for the following season for trying to ask for a pay raise only to return to the NHL in 1954, where he would spend the next nine years; in ten seasons for New York, they reached the postseason four times. He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in the summer of 1963. With Montreal, he would go 29–7 in the postseason that saw the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup four times (1965, 1966, 1968, 1969). In tandem with Charlie Hodge for the 1965–66 season and Rogie Vachon for the 1967–68 season, Worsley...

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