Milton Conrad Schmidt was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre, coach and general manager, mostly for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, where he was a member of the Kraut Line.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,901 |
16 Facts About Milt Schmidt
2.
In 2017, Schmidt was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,902 |
3.
Milt Schmidt continued playing junior hockey with the Kitchener Empires and Kitchener Greenshirts.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,903 |
4.
Milt Schmidt was a childhood friend of fellow Hall of Famers Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,904 |
5.
At the age of 20, while playing for the Boston Bruins' AHL farm team, the Providence Reds, Milt Schmidt was invited to try out for the St Louis Cardinals pro baseball team, but knew himself well enough from his youth baseball experience that while he could hit the ball out of the park, he would strike out many more times than hitting home runs.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,905 |
6.
Milt Schmidt played junior hockey with Dumart and Bauer in Kitchener, Ontario, before their rights were all acquired by the Bruins in 1935.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,906 |
7.
Milt Schmidt quickly proved himself to be a hardnosed centre, a skilled stickhandler and smooth playmaker.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,907 |
8.
The following season Milt Schmidt became a star, as he led the league in scoring and guided the Bruins to another first-place finish and the third-most goals in team history to date.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,908 |
9.
Milt Schmidt resumed his starring ways and finished fourth in league scoring in 1947.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,909 |
10.
Milt Schmidt coached the Bruins up to the 1966 season with a year and a half hiatus, leading them to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1957 and 1958.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,910 |
11.
Milt Schmidt proved to be a great architect in the new era of the NHL, acquiring and drafting several key players to build a Bruins team that won two more Stanley Cups in 1970 and 1972.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,911 |
12.
Milt Schmidt's biggest deal was a blockbuster as he acquired Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield from the Chicago Black Hawks in exchange for Pit Martin, Gilles Marotte and Jack Norris.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,912 |
13.
Milt Schmidt was the last surviving member of both the Bruins' 1939 and 1941 Stanley Cup teams.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,913 |
14.
Milt Schmidt was the last living NHL player to play in the 1930s and the last to have played against the Montreal Maroons.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,914 |
15.
Milt Schmidt died after a stroke on January 4,2017 in a retirement facility in Westwood, Massachusetts; at the age of 98; at the time of his death he was the oldest living former NHL player, and the last living player from the AHL's inaugural season.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,915 |
16.
Milt Schmidt is buried alongside his wife at the Highland Cemetery in Dover, Massachusetts.
| FactSnippet No. 2,082,916 |