Second Group of
Inductees, The Class of 2004 Announced
for Induction,
June, 2005
Floyd Thomson
Left Wing
Born June 14, 1949 -- Sudbury, Ontario
Height 6.00 -- Weight 190
Floyd Thomson proved himself as a clever offensive player
showing he was effective on face-offs and that he could
stand his ground whether in the slot or the corners of the
rink.
Born in Sudbury and raised in Capreol, north of that city,
Floyd Thomson played his amateur hockey in the NOHA with Falconbridge-Garson. Undrafted
and unsigned, he played his first pro season with the Fort
Wayne Komets, of the IHL in 1969-70. Then it was on to
the St. Louis Blues where he was signed as a free agent in
October of 1970. Thomson played regularly on the CHL's Kansas City Blues in 1970-71,
and then went on to a distinguished career playing over 400
NHL games. Starting with the 1972-73 season, he would
spend the next five years as a playmaker and
penalty killer in St. Louis. In the 1974-75 season he set a personal-high
of 36
points playing on a line with Wayne Merrick and
Pierre Plante.
Nearing the end of the
1970's and after scoring 41 goals for the Salt
Lake Golden Eagles, in 1978-79, he was placed on the league's
first all-star team. Thomson retired in 1982 after playing
most of his last five pro seasons with Salt Lake.
Thomson’s mother and father were raised in the rural area
east of Parry Sound and young Floyd spent each summer at his
grandmother’s farm in Dunchurch.
Since retiring from the
game in Salt Lake City, Thomson has now returned to the
community of his roots, and lives near Parry Sound. |
Floyd Thomson
at age 5
Photo from the collection of
Floyd's father Fred "White Pine" Thomson |
