Grindy Forrester

Grindy Forrester
Grindy Forrester with the
Portage Lakes Hockey Club.
Born (1877-07-11)July 11, 1877
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Died November 8, 1932(1932-11-08) (aged 55)
Miles City, Montana, USA
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb)
Position Cover Point
Played for Barrie Hockey Club
Thessalon HC
Portages Lakes HC
Pittsburgh Athletic Club
Winnipeg Maple Leafs
Montreal Shamrocks
Playing career 1897–1909
Forrester, second from right in the top row, with the Portage Lakes Hockey Club in the 1905–06 season.

Joseph Andrew "Grindy" Forrester (July 11, 1877 – November 8, 1932) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player from Barrie, Ontario. He played with the Montreal Shamrocks of the Canadian Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association in 1909–1910. He also played with the Portage Lakes Hockey Club in the IPHL, the Winnipeg Maple Leafs in the MPHL and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in the WPHL.

Between 1897 and 1902, Forrester played amateur hockey in Waterloo, Ontario.

Playing style

According to former ice hockey player and coach Jack Adams, Grindy Forrester had one of the hardest shots during his era. When Forrester was about to take the step from amateur to professional hockey prior to the 1905–06 season, leaving Thessalon in Ontario for the Canadian-American IPHL circuit, a newspaper account in the Toronto Star noted him as being a "natural-born hockey player", claiming that "his great wrist-shooting made him the terror of all goal-keepers in the O.H.A.". The paper also pointed out that he was "big, fast, and shifty, and well able to take care of himself."

Statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GPGAPtsPIM GPGAPtsPIM
1903–04Barrie Hockey ClubOHA44043–––––
1904–05Thessalon HCOHA-I––––––––––
1905–06Portage Lakes Hockey ClubIPHL2040416–––––
1906–07Portage Lakes Hockey ClubIPHL221531814–––––
1907–08Pittsburgh Athletic ClubWPHL4101––––––
1907–08Winnipeg Maple LeafsMPHL112139–––––
1908Winnipeg Maple LeafsStanley Cup–––––20003
1908–09Winnipeg Maple LeafsMPHL874116–––––
1909–10Montreal ShamrocksCHA11010–––––
1910Montreal ShamrocksNHA80000–––––
IPHL totals 42 19 3 22 30 – – – – –
WPHL totals 19 9 5 14 15 – – – – –

Statistics per Society for International Hockey Research at sihrhockey.org

References

  1. ↑ SIHR – Player List sihrhockey.org
  2. ↑ "Trigger Men" The Montreal Gazette, February 3, 1943.
  3. ↑ ""Grindy" to quit amateur hockey" The Toronto Star, Aug. 17, 1905 (page 10). Retrieved June 2, 2025.