Thompson, Paul Ivan

  • Wiki: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thompson_(ice_hockey,_born_1906)
    • Paul Ivan Thompson (November 2, 1906 – September 13, 1991) was a Canadian ice hockey winger who played 13 season in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the younger brother of Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Cecil “Tiny” Thompson.
    • Thompson started his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers in 1926. He also played for the Chicago Black Hawks and retired after the 1939 season. He was a member of the season-ending NHL All-Star team twice as a player and twice as a coach. He was a three-time winner of the Stanley Cup, winning it in 1928 with the Rangers, and in 1934 and 1938 with Black Hawks.
    • Thompson faced his brother Tiny in the 1929 Stanley Cup Finals, marking the first time a set of brothers faced each other in a goaltender-forward combination in Stanley Cup Finals history. Paul’s Rangers were swept by Tiny’s Boston Bruins. Tiny said of the matchup: “When I played goal for Boston against Paul (in) the final of 1929, he was just a rookie. It was really no contest.”
    • After retiring from playing, Thompson became a professional coach, notably coaching the Chicago Black Hawks between 1939 and 1945, and the Vancouver Canucks of the Pacific Coast Hockey League (PCHL), between 1945 and 1947.
  • Second Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=9887
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8643688/paul_ivan-thompson