Curt Alexander Bennett (born March 27, 1948 in Regina, Saskatchewan but raised in Cranston, Rhode Island) is a former American ice hockey forward, who played in the National Hockey League as well as for the United States national ice hockey team in the 1970s. Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Regina (rɨˈdʒaɪnə is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. Rhode Island ( officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. A Forward is a hockey player position on the Ice whose responsibility is primarily offensive. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America
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Early life
Bennett came from a very good hockey family as his father Harvey Bennett, Sr., and two of his brothers (Harvey Bennett Jr. and Bill Bennett) also played in the NHL. Harvey Bennett Sr ( July 23, 1925 – November 21, 2004) was a Canadian Goaltender who played for the Boston Bruins Harvey Bennett (born August 9, 1952 in Cranston Rhode Island) is a retired American professional Ice hockey player He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 16th pick in the 1968 NHL Entry Draft and joined the Blues in 1971 after three very successful seaasons with the Brown University men's hockey team where he was a defenceman while obtaining a degree in Russian studies. The St Louis Blues are a professional Ice hockey team based in St The 1968 NHL Amateur Draft was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Brown University is a highly esteemed private University located in Providence, Rhode Island and is a member of the Ivy League. Defence ( defense in the USA in Ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring. He was also a captain of the men's tennis team at Brown. He was also nominated for a Rhodes scholarship. Bennett is a member of the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame, holding the school records for goals by a defenceman in a game (7), season and career.
Playing career
Bennett appeared in four NHL games in his rookie season before finally becoming a regular player for the Blues in the 1972 Stanley Cup playoffs. The National Hockey League (NHL season is divided into the regular season and the Stanley Cup playoffs However, he was traded to the New York Rangers during the offseason. The New York Rangers are a professional Ice hockey team based in New York, New York, United States. After 16 games as a Ranger, he was dealt to the expansion Atlanta Flames where he became one of the Flames premier forwards. The Atlanta Flames were a professional Ice hockey team based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 1972 to 1980. Bennett provided the leadership, defensive skills (he frequently guarded the opposing team's star player) and toughness a young team needs, and he represented the Flames in the 1975 and 1976 NHL All Star game after scoring a career-high 65 points in the 1975–1976 NHL season. The National Hockey League All-Star Game (Match des Étoiles de la Ligue Nationale de Hockey is an exhibition Ice hockey game that traditionally marks the midway He also served as one of the assisting captains on the United States team in the inaugural 1976 Canada Cup tournament. After the Summit Series of 1972 and 1974, the NHL and NHLPA decided to broaden the scope of the competition inviting to the tournament a number of hockey However, he struggled in the next two NHL seasons after that and was dealt back to the St. Louis Blues in a six player trade in late 1977. Bennett spent the next two seasons with the Blues and also played for the US national team at the 1978 and 1979 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments as St. The Ice Hockey World Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Louis failed to make the NHL playoffs. He was traded back to the Flames in the summer of 1979 where he played a final 21 games in 1979/80, scoring just one goal.
Bennett ended his NHL career with 334 points in 580 games. He was the first American to reach the 30 goal plateau in a season.
Post career
Bennett and his his wife emigrated to Nikko, Japan in 1980 to be a player/coach for the Furukawa Denko club. is a city located in the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. While in Japan, Bennett filed some television reports and wrote a number of articles for 'Goal' magazine about his experience living in Japan and the local ice hockey culture over there (he had previous experience from working as a part-time Atlanta sportscaster during his career with the Flames and also served as national television color commentator during the 1977 Stanley Cup playoffs). He and his brother Harvey Bennett finally retired in 1982 after two years with Furukawa. After moving back to the United States, he would work with the NHLPA to help players transition to life after hockey. As an Atlanta resident in the early 1990s, he worked as an assistant coach for the International Hockey League Atlanta Knights in 1992–93 while leading a group of local businessmen to bring NHL hockey back to Atlant. The International Hockey League (IHL was a minor Professional Ice hockey league in the United States and Canada from 1945 to 2001 The Atlanta Knights were a Minor league professional Ice hockey team in the International Hockey League from 1992 to 1996 In 2007 he was a commercial real estate broker in Hawaii where he has his own firm.
References
- Curt Bennett's homepage
- Curt Bennett's biography at Legends of Hockey
- Bennett's player profile at HockeyDraftCentral.com
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