Alex Shibicky
Ice Hockey, Ice hockey player
1914 – 2005
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Who was Alex Shibicky?
Alexandre Dimitri Shibicky was an ice hockey forward who played for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League from 1935 to 1946.
Shibicky was also a Stanley Cup winner in 1940, and the vice-president of the first incarnation of the National Hockey League Players Association, but he is best known for being the first player to use a slapshot, which he did in 1937. He said he learned it in practice from teammate Fred "Bun" Cook during the 1935–36 season. He also spent three years in the Canadian Forces during World War II.
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- Born
- May 19, 1914
Winnipeg - Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 9, 2005
Surrey
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on July 23, 2013
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