16 Facts About Weston Adams

Weston Woollard Adams was an American hockey executive with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.

Weston Adams is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Weston Adams attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Harvard where he played Goaltender on the varsity team.

In 1936, Weston Adams became majority owner and team president of the Bruins when his father transferred his stock to him, Art Ross, and Ralph Burkard.

Weston Adams served in both the Atlantic and Pacific, mostly on escort and convoy duty.

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Weston Adams remained a major stockholder in the Garden-Arena Corporation and he became its chairman in 1951.

The team's struggled during the first few seasons under the Garden-Arena Corporation, until Weston Adams took on a more proactive role in player procurement.

Weston Adams fostered strong working relationships with powerful junior clubs, including the Niagara Falls Flyers and the Estevan Bruins, which could develop and supply players.

Weston Adams logged many hours traveling across Canada to scout players.

Weston Adams developed the concept of the sixth attacker and secured the relationship with the AHL's Boston Braves due to the AHL's loss of many players to the expanding NHL.

Weston Adams was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as an Honoured Builder in 1972.

Weston Adams served as travelling secretary of the Boston Braves baseball club.

Weston Adams was a member of the Boston Stock Exchange from 1929 to 1969.

Weston Adams then served as president of the exchange from 1962 to 1963.

On January 8,1933, Weston Adams married Mildred Culver Boyd of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

Weston Adams died on March 19,1973, at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.