Connie Broden

{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (1932–2013)}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image = Connie Broden.JPG

| image_size = 230px

| caption =

| position = Centre

| played_for = Montreal Canadiens

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 8

| weight_lb = 160

| ntl_team = Canada

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1932|4|6}}

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|11|23|1932|4|6}}

| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| career_start = 1950

| career_end = 1959

}}

{{MedalTableTop | name = no | medals =

{{MedalCountry | {{flag|Canada|1957}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 1958 Oslo | }}

}}

Thomas Connell Broden (April 6, 1932 – November 23, 2013) was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Broden is the only player to have won the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Championships and the Stanley Cup in the same year (1958).IIHF Top 100 Hockey Stories of All Time, Szymon Szemberg and Andrew Podnieks, p.129, Fenn Publishing, Bolton, Ontario, Canada, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-55168-358-4}}

Playing career

Broden played his entire National Hockey League career with the Montreal Canadiens; it consisted of six regular-season games and seven playoff games. Overall, he scored two goals and recorded one assist in NHL play. He made his NHL debut in 1956 and retired following the 1958 season. He won two Stanley Cups with Montreal in 1957 and 1958.

Playing for Canada's Whitby Dunlops, Broden won the IIHF's Oslo tournament in scoring with 12 goals and 7 assists in 7 games, scoring at least one goal in every game of the World Championship. Canada beat the Soviet Union national ice hockey team 4 – 2 to take the gold in the championship.

Post-playing career

After retiring from hockey Broden worked as a senior executive at Molson Breweries for 32 years.{{cite web|url=http://turnerporter.permavita.com/siteContent/memorial.html?personId=245698&source=memlist |title=Turner & Porter Funeral Directors - T. Connell "Connie" Broden |publisher=Turnerporter.permavita.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-27}} He died on November 23, 2013, at a Toronto hospital.{{cite web |author=Canada |url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20131126.93332730/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |title=globeandmail.com: BRODEN |publisher=V1.theglobeandmail.com |date=2013-11-23 |accessdate=2013-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203021135/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20131126.93332730/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |archive-date=2013-12-03 |url-status=dead }}

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! colspan="5"|Regular season

! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! colspan="5"|Playoffs

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Season

! Team

! League

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

1949–50

| Montreal Royals

| QSHL

| 36

7192614

| 3

0110
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1950–51

| Montreal Royals

| QSHL

| 29

15122715

| —

1950–51

| Montreal Junior Royals

| QJHL

| 1

0000

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1951–52

| Montreal Junior Canadiens

| QJHL

| 39

16244018

| 10

5278
1952–53

| Cincinnati Mohawks

| IHL

| 57

29386739

| 9

4378
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1953–54

| Cincinnati Mohawks

| IHL

| 59

32376934

| 11

32514
1954–55

| Shawinigan Falls Cataractes

| QSHL

| 62

27356225

| 13

571215
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1955–56

| Montreal Canadiens

| NHL

| 3

0002

| —

1955–56

| Shawinigan Falls Cataractes

| QSHL

| 61

17405745

| 11

28108
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1956–57

| Montreal Canadiens

| NHL

| —

| 6

0110
1956–57

| Shawinigan Falls Cataracts

| QSHL

| 68

20294932

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1957–58

| Montreal Canadiens

| NHL

| 3

2130

| 1

0000
1957–58

| Whitby Dunlops

| OHA Sr

| 7

59140

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1958–59

| Hull-Ottawa Canadiens

| OHA Sr

| 26

11122340

| 7

04420
bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | QSHL totals

! 256 !! 86 !! 135 !! 121 !! 131

! 27 !! 7 !! 16 !! 23 !! 23

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | NHL totals

! 6 !! 2 !! 1 !! 3 !! 2

! 7 !! 0 !! 1 !! 1 !! 0

=International=

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! Year

! Team

! Event

! rowspan="102" bgcolor="#ffffff"|

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

1958

| Canada

| WC

| 7

117186
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! colspan="4"| Senior totals

! 7 !! 11 !! 7 !! 18 !! 6

References

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=Secondary sources=

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  • IIHF News Release, April 2002, Vol. 6 - No. 2

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