Ted Harris (ice hockey)
{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| name = Ted Harris
| image =
| image_size =
| position = Defence
| played_for = Montreal Canadiens
Minnesota North Stars
Detroit Red Wings
St. Louis Blues
Philadelphia Flyers
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 2
| weight_lb = 175
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|7|18}}
| birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| career_start = 1956
| career_end = 1975
}}
Edward Alexander Harris (born July 18, 1936) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
Playing career
Harris played in the National Hockey League from 1963 to 1975. During this time, he played for the Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, and Philadelphia Flyers. He won four Stanley Cups with Montreal and a fifth with Philadelphia. He currently resides in southern New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia.
Harris also fought Hockey Hall of Fame Rookie Bobby Orr in Orr's first regular season NHL fight.
Awards and achievements
- MJHL First Team Allstar (1955)
- Turnbull Cup (MJHL) Championship (1955)
- Calder Cup (AHL) Championships (1961, 1962, with Springfield
- Calder Cup (AHL) Championships (1964 with Cleveland Barons)
- AHL First All-Star Team (1964)
- Eddie Shore Award Winner (1964)
- NHL Second All-Star Team (1969)
- Played in NHL All-Star Game (1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972)
- Stanley Cup Championships (1965, 1966, 1968, & 1969) with Montreal as Edward Harris
- Stanley Cup Championship (1975) with Philadelphia as Ted Harris
- Ted is an “Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
Career statistics
=Regular season and playoffs=
| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:60em" | ||||||||
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! 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 | ||||||||
| 1953–54
| MJHL | 36 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 94
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1954–55 | Winnipeg Monarchs | MJHL | 32 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 137
| 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 57 |
| 1955–56
| Winnipeg Monarchs | MJHL | 20 | 6 | 23 | 29 | 78
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1956–57 | AHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1956–57
| EHL | 61 | 11 | 33 | 44 | 103
| 13 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 31 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1957–58 | Philadelphia Ramblers | EHL | 62 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 82
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1958–59
| Springfield Indians | AHL | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 11
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1958–59 | WHL | 58 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 82
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1959–60
| Springfield Indians | AHL | 63 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 100
| 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1960–61 | Springfield Indians | AHL | 69 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 76
| 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| 1961–62
| Springfield Indians | AHL | 70 | 2 | 29 | 31 | 142
| 11 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1962–63 | Springfield Indians | AHL | 72 | 8 | 30 | 38 | 172
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1963–64
| NHL | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1963–64 | AHL | 67 | 6 | 23 | 29 | 109
| 9 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| 1964–65
| Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 68 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 107
| 13 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 45 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1965–66 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 53 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 87
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 |
| 1966–67
| Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 65 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 86
| 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1967–68 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 67 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 78
| 13 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| 1968–69
| Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 76 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 102
| 14 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 34 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1969–70 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 74 | 3 | 17 | 20 | 116
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1970–71
| NHL | 78 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 130
| 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 36 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1971–72 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 78 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 77
| 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| 1972–73
| Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 78 | 7 | 23 | 30 | 83
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1973–74 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1973–74
| NHL | 41 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 66
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1973–74 | NHL | 24 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 16
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1974–75
| NHL | 70 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 48
| 16 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | NHL totals ! 788 !! 30 !! 168 !! 198 !! 1,000 ! 100 !! 1 !! 22 !! 23 !! 230 |
NHL coaching record
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;" | ||||||
| rowspan="2"|Team | rowspan="2"|Year | colspan="6"|Regular season | colspan="1"|Post-season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | L | T | Pts | Finish | Result |
| Minnesota North Stars||1975–76
|80||20||53||7||47||4th in Smythe||Missed playoffs | ||||||
| Minnesota North Stars||1976–77
|80||23||39||18||64||2nd in Smythe||Lost in preliminary round | ||||||
| Minnesota North Stars||1977–78
|19||5||12||2||(45)||5th in Smythe||(fired) | ||||||
| colspan="2"|Total ||179||48||104||27||156| | ||||||
| |1 playoff appearance |
External links
- {{Ice hockey stats}}
- [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/players.html?category=9&id=100 Ted Harris's biography] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20141004060054/http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/index.html Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]
{{s-start}}
{{succession box | before = Claude Larose | title = Minnesota North Stars captain | years = 1970–74 | after = Bill Goldsworthy}}
{{succession box | before = Gary Bergman | title = Detroit Red Wings captain | years = 1974 | after = Mickey Redmond}}
{{succession box | before = Charlie Burns | title = Head coach of the Minnesota North Stars | years = 1975–77 | after = André Beaulieu}}
{{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Ted}}
Category:Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Category:Canadian ice hockey coaches
Category:Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Category:Cleveland Barons (1937–1973) players
Category:Detroit Red Wings captains
Category:Detroit Red Wings players
Category:Ice hockey people from Winnipeg
Category:Minnesota North Stars coaches
Category:Minnesota North Stars players
Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen
Category:Montreal Canadiens players
Category:Philadelphia Flyers players
Category:St. Louis Blues players
Category:Springfield Indians players
Category:Stanley Cup champions
Category:Winnipeg Monarchs players
{{canada-icehockey-defenceman-1930s-stub}}