10 Facts About Tommy Ivan

Thomas Nathaniel Ivan was a Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager.

Tommy Ivan served as a National Hockey League head coach for the Detroit Red Wings from 1947 to 1954 where he won three Stanley Cups, and was the general manager for the Chicago Black Hawks from 1954 to 1977, winning a Stanley Cup in 1961.

Tommy Ivan was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Macedonian immigrant parents.

Tommy Ivan never played professional hockey, as a severe facial injury shortened his career while playing in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.

Tommy Ivan was a keen judge of talent that helped discover young prospects like Gordie Howe and several other National Hockey League players that would go on to Hall of Fame careers.

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Tommy Ivan is one of eleven coaches to have won the Stanley Cup three times as a coach, and he did so on the strength of seven playoff appearances.

Tommy Ivan took the reins as Black Hawks coach-general manager in 1954, after winning six straight regular-season championships with Detroit.

Tommy Ivan led a rebuilding effort, adding farm teams and stocking the Hawks' farm system with good prospects.

Tommy Ivan made key trades that would help fortify the Hawks into a contending team for the next several seasons.

Tommy Ivan served 25 years as Black Hawks GM and then served as the Black Hawks' vice-president and alternate governor in the years following his GM tenure.