| Position: | Centre |
| Played For: | Montreal Canadiens |
| Shoots: | Left |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 8 |
| Weight Lb: | 160 |
| Birth Date: | 1932 4, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Career Start: | 1950 |
| Career End: | 1959 |
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).[1]
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.
After retiring from hockey Broden worked as a senior executive at Molson Breweries for 32 years.[2] He died on November 23, 2013, at a Toronto hospital.[3] [4]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 1949–50 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 36 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1950–51 | Montreal Royals | QSHL | 29 | 15 | 12 | 27 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1950–51 | Montreal Junior Royals | QJHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1951–52 | Montreal Junior Canadiens | QJHL | 39 | 16 | 24 | 40 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 1952–53 | Cincinnati Mohawks | IHL | 57 | 29 | 38 | 67 | 39 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 1953–54 | Cincinnati Mohawks | IHL | 59 | 32 | 37 | 69 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | ||
| 1954–55 | Shawinigan Falls Cataractes | QSHL | 62 | 27 | 35 | 62 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 15 | ||
| 1955–56 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1955–56 | Shawinigan Falls Cataractes | QSHL | 61 | 17 | 40 | 57 | 45 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 8 | ||
| 1956–57 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1956–57 | Shawinigan Falls Cataracts | QSHL | 68 | 20 | 29 | 49 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1957–58 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1957–58 | Whitby Dunlops | OHA Sr | 7 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1958–59 | Hull-Ottawa Canadiens | OHA Sr | 26 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 40 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 20 | ||
| QSHL totals | 256 | 86 | 135 | 121 | 131 | 27 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 23 | ||||
| NHL totals | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||