The Incredible Life and Tragic Death of Tim Horton - The Sports Lunatics
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- Tim Horton may be more known for his donuts today, but Tim Horton the hockey player was one of the best defensemen in the world! 50 years ago this week he was driving home to Buffalo after playing the Toronto Maple Leafs then tragedy struck. The Sports Lunatics Shawn Lavigne and Howie Mooney look back at the incredible life of Tim Horton on and off the ice and the impact his death had on a generation of hockey fans.
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My father was his buddy back in Cochrane Ontario in th early 1940's. Was told he was a kind generous man.
Dave "The Hammer Shultz" mentioned in his book that the biggest mistake he had ever done was try to fight Tim Horton. Tim put a Bear Hug on Dave and pinned him to the Ice. I f Tim wanted too, he could have destroyed Dave, but Tim let Dave up. and after that Dave never bothered Tim again.
Another key player that Imlach brought in was Roger Crozier
BOBBY BUNN LENT TIM TON MONEY TO START DONUT SHOP.......BUNN OWNS 3 OF THEM
A little more on the Sabres/Canucks draft:
The infamous ‘wheel’ was numbered 1-14; the Canucks had #’s 1-7 & the Sabres had #8-14.
NHL President Clarence Campbell spun the wheel at a media event days before the draft in Montreal and the wheel apparently stopped at the # 1. Campbell yelled out that the Canucks had the 1st pick.
Immediately, there was commotion.
“I remember (Sabres coach-GM) Punch Imlach and (assistant GM) Fred Hunt jumping up and yelling, ‘No, you got it wrong,’” Gilbert Perreault recalled.
Campbell took another look.
“Wait a minute,” Campbell said. “I called it wrong. “It’s number 11 in favor of Buffalo.”
Tim Horton wis my all time favourite hockey player. Such a tragic loss.Would have loved to see him play on Team Canada.R.I.P. Tim, you are dearly missed.
Horton was a New York Ranger in 1971. I was at the playoff game v Chicago that went to triple overtime. Horton shot the puck into the corner. The puck came out to winger Ted Irvine who took a shot on goal whose rebound came out to Pete Stemkowski who scored giving New York the win. Fabulous game and he was still a great defenseman even then.
Would be best to only talk about his hockey-playing days and forget about his off-ice life.
Hi niece was in my grade 3 class in 73/74. When he died she never came back to that school.
I remember telling my daughter and a couple of her friends this story . For context they were in college and LOVE the coffee shops.... they had NO idea he was a hockey player (although my daughter loves the game) .
They were absolute gobsmacked and hung on every word - at the end their mouths were open and gasping "OMG" as they enjoyed their drinks and snacks.
millenials be like .... who? ....
Many thanks for doing this remembrance tribute to the late, great Tim Horton. Growing up in Buffalo, He was one of my favorite Sabres. We had heard the awful news before going to school that morning, and all Sabres fans were just stunned into numbness. He was one of Punch Imlach's old favorite veterans from their history together in Toronto, and both men had been unceremoniously DUMPED & DISCARDED by the Maple Leafs and their cheap ownership (so I don't want to hear any "20/20 hindsight" belated "crocodile tears" by the Leafs about how much they supposedly loved and valued Tim Horton after the way they cast him aside. Ditto the way they did Punch Imlach dirty. Punch found new life in Buffalo with the expansion Sabres, and he/we always took special delight in "sticking it" to the Leafs -- winning more than our fair share of games against them in the early years even as an expansion team :) When Punch cajoled Tim Horton out of retirement to help the young Sabres, he did so with not only a nice veteran contract -- sweetened by the complimentary Pantera that Tim wanted so badly (yet likely couldn't afford on the player salaries of yesteryear) -- but also with the PRICELESS RESPECT that the Leafs and all other NHL teams failed to give Tim Horton any more. Because of that respect and friendship, Tim Horton also received then-unheard of little "concessions" in the NHL world of 1973/74: Whenever the Sabres had a game at Maple Leaf Gardens, rather than making Tim Horton ride the team bus back to Buffalo late at night, Punch always gave Tim special permission to remain in Toronto overnight so he could stay at his home with his wife and daughters, and then drive back to Buffalo in the morning on his own in time for morning practice and/or a charter flight out of Buffalo if the Sabres' next game was also going to be on the road. Tim still had lots of buddies in the GTA, and -- as hockey players typically do -- they had plenty of beers at his house following the game, and they stayed up too late partying. To compound matters, the reason Tim Horton was driving on the QEW so early in the morning after the game was because he took a puck to the face during the game and hurt (fractured?) his jaw ... so he was on his way to see a Buffalo doctor early in the morning for examination and evaluation prior to the morning skate (the Sabres' next game was at home, hosting the then-Atlanta Flames). And the additional factor is that Tim has prescription pain killers because of the injury. So the NHL world was robbed of Tim Horton's continued presence due to a lethal combination of too much booze, too little sleep, pain killers (all of which kept Tim from having sharp driving reflexes), and massively excessive speed on the QEW when he hit a curve and lost control of the Pantera. The car flipped, and Tim was ejected because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt (which may NOT have been a requirement in 1973/74). The only merciful thing is that he probably never suffered because he was likely killed instantly. One of Tim Horton's enduring legacies to the young Sabres' team is that he took then-rookie defenseman Jim "Shoney" Schoenfeld under his wing, -- and trained him to become an excellent NHL defenseman. RIP Tim Horton & George "Punch" Imlach.
He may earned respect on the ice, but reality still dictates that he was drug addled, drunk (by a large margin) and not wearing a seatbelt (in a performance car at race speeds)
Your “hero” died mercifully without killing ten more people on the QEW.
Broken jaw aside, it was a stupid selfish decision that I have little sympathy for.
Good hockey player and a selfish asshole
You forgot the part where he stopped in Oakville to get drunk with Ron Joyce and how he fled when a cop tried to pull him over for reckless driving
Whatever. Some hero
Shawn sounds like "the urinating tree" who did a wonderful vid on 50 yrs of futility.
I always wondered why Tim Horton’s doesn’t sell alcohol. If you have never been to Canada, Tim Horton’s is like Dunkin’ Doughnuts had a baby with Starbucks.
He was driving while drunk. 2x the legal limit. Lucky no one else was killed. Don't sugar coat it.
I watched that game the night TIm Horton was wearing the Buffalo Sabres Jersey playing his old team the Maple Leafs in Toronto February 1974 a Wednesday night Sabres losing that night to the Toronto Maple Leafs at Toronto.
Then clocked 🚨 speeding on the Queen Elizabeth way near St. Catharines, Ont. only hearing the next morning Tim Horton had died
tragically crashing his car then sadly later hearing he was driving impaired. 🥃
@Edwardo485 He was still going strong he was in 24 th season in the NHL
Societal norms for drinking and driving were different back then, many people did so and didn't see an issue with it. I'm not saying it's right I'm just saying in the context of the times.
@@markastoforoff7838 Society never accepted drunk driving! GET REAL!
@@Edwardo485 i seen tim horton live at the first NHL I went GAME 7 Stanley Cup final Leafs against Red Wings at the Gardens Leafs won 4 to 0