Stan Obodiac | |
Position: | Left wing |
Shoots: | Left |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 0 |
Weight Lb: | 185 |
Played For: | Lethbridge Maple Leafs |
Ntl Team: | Canada |
Birth Date: | 7 February 1922 |
Birth Place: | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Death Place: | North York, Ontario, Canada |
Career Start: | 1938 |
Career End: | 1955 |
Stanley Obodiac (February 7, 1922 - November 3, 1984) was a Canadian ice hockey player with the Lethbridge Maple Leafs. He won a gold medal at the 1951 World Ice Hockey Championships in Paris, France. The 1951 Lethbridge Maple Leafs team was inducted to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1974.[1] He was the leading scorer of the 1951 World Championship tournament.[2]
Following his career as a hockey player, he remained employed in hockey as public relations director for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens.[3] In this capacity, he wrote and published the history book The Leafs: The First 50 Years, which was a finalist for the Toronto Book Awards in 1977.[4]