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Cecil Ralph "Tiny" Thompson (May 31, 1903 – February 9, 1981) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), first for the Boston Bruins, and later for the Detroit Red Wings. A four time Vezina Trophy winner, Thompson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959. He was a member of one Stanley Cup winning team, as a rookie in the 1928–29 season with the Boston Bruins. At the start of the 1938–39 season, after ten full seasons with Boston, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings, where he completed the season, and played another full one before retiring. During his NHL career, he recorded 81 shutouts, the sixth highest of any goaltender. After retiring from playing, he coached lower league teams before becoming a noted professional scout. Thompson helped popularize the technique of the "glove save" which was catching the puck with his hands as a method of making a save. A competent puckhandler, he was the first goaltender in the NHL to record an assist in 1936 by passing the puck with his stick to a fellow player.

Thompson was born in the mining community of Sandon, BC. He grew up in Calgary, Alberta, where his brother, Paul—who also became a professional ice hockey player—was born in 1906. As a child, he enjoyed playing baseball and ice hockey. As a teenager playing competitive ice hockey, he acquired the nickname "Tiny" as a joke, as he was the tallest player on the team, standing 5 feet (2 m); the nickname stuck with him for the rest of his career. Thompson began his junior career playing for the Calgary Monarchs in 1919 at the age of 16. He competed for the Memorial Cup, awarded to the Canadian junior hockey champions that year, playing in two games and surrendering 11 goals, a respectable amount in that era. After spending the 1920–21 season playing for Calgary Alberta Grain, Thompson played three seasons in Bellevue, Alberta. In the 1924–25 season, he joined the Duluth Hornets, playing 40 games, recording a shutout in 11 of them.

Thompson began his National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Boston Bruins in the 1928–29 season after his contract was purchased by Boston manager Art Ross. Despite having never seen Thompson play, Ross had heard about Thompson's good reputation in Minnesota. In his first season, he appeared in all 44 of the Bruins' games, posting 12 shutouts and a 1.15 goals against average, the fourth lowest goals against average in NHL history to date, fourth to Alec Connell's 1.12 GAA and George Hainsworth's 1.05 and 0.98 GAA. Hainsworth set his record that same season. Thompson recorded three shutouts in the five playoff games, and allowed only three goals. The following season, Thompson again appeared in all of the Bruins' 44 games, posting three shutouts and a 2.19 goals against average. The league changed its rules on forward passing, which resulted in a sharp increase in goal scoring. Surrendering only 98 goals, Thompson bested Chicago goaltender Charlie Gardiner to win the first of his four Vezina Trophies. The Vezina Trophy is awarded to the league's top goaltender, which was determined prior to the 1981–82 season by number of goals surrendered by goaltenders who had played a minimum number of games. In the playoffs, however, they suffered their first two game losing streak, as they were swept 2–0 by the Canadiens in the Stanley Cup finals. Earlier in the playoffs, Thompson's winning streak of seven playoff games was snapped; it remains, as of 2014, the longest playoff winning streak to start a career. In the 1930–31 season, he played all 44 games again, In the playoffs, Boston lost the semifinals to the Montreal Canadiens; during game two of the series Thompson became the first goaltender to be pulled for a sixth attacker at the end of a game to give his team a higher chance to score a goal. Even though Boston still lost, coach Art Ross' maneuver was described as "amazing" the following day, and this technique, known as "open net", caught on with the rest of the league. The Bruins missed the playoffs for the first time in Thompson's career in the 1931–32 season. He won only 13 games while appearing in 43 out of Boston's 48 games, which was the only time he missed games as a member of the Bruins. as he recorded 11 shutouts and a 1.76 goals against average. as Thompson was named to the second All Star team for the second time. The ensuing two game, total goal playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs was a series of contrasts, as the Bruins lost 8–6. In the opening game, the Bruins shut out Toronto 3–0, while they lost the other game 8–3. Thompson set a new record by winning his fourth and final Vezina Trophy. He was also named to the first All Star team for the second time. To make space for Brimsek, Thompson was traded to the Detroit Red Wings for Normie Smith and $15,000 on November 16, 1938; Thompson also received a $1,000 bonus from Boston. Boston manager Art Ross predicted that Thompson, now 35, would play for the Red Wings for at least another five seasons; however, Thompson remained with the team for only two seasons before retiring from playing. The Red Wings posted a losing record in both of these seasons, although they made the playoffs both times. Overall, Thompson appeared in 85 regular season games for Detroit, recording a 32–41–12 record, seven shutouts, and a 2.54 goals against average, He appeared in one game as goaltender in the 1940–41 season. During World War II, Thompson served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and doubled as the coach of the Calgary RCAF Mustangs of the Alberta Senior Hockey League. He led the Mustangs to the league championship series in 1942–43 against the Calgary Currie Army team where injuries to the Mustangs' goaltenders brought him back onto the ice in March 1943. With Thompson in goal, the Mustangs defeated Currie Army 8–4 to tie the best of five series at two wins apiece. He played the deciding game, but his team fell short of winning the Alberta title with a 3–1 loss to Currie Army. After the war, Thompson became chief Western Canada scout for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was one of the few scouts at the time who sought to discover a player's personality along with their playing ability. Thompson often conversed with players as part of an effort to learn about the players he was watching.

Thompson was "the first of the great floppers" and frequently dove on his belly to stop a puck. He was one of the first NHL goaltenders to catch the puck with his hand to make a save, and helped popularize the technique. Using gloves that were smaller than those of other players, he was among the best puck catchers of his era. He stood in the way of the puck with minimal padding, risking being struck when moving to catch it instead of simply deflecting it away from the net. His signature technique, very often featured in photographs of him, involved dropping to one knee with the paddle of his goalstick covering the five hole, and extending his glove to cover the left side of the net. Although he caught the puck with his glove, the gloves he had did not have anything like the level of safety and comfort provided by the modern blocker and trapper glove combination. Thompson was described by Johnny Bower, a former goaltender who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, as a good puckhandler, and one of the best of his time at forward passing. In the 1935–36 season, Thompson became the first goaltender to get an assist by intentionally passing the puck with his stick to a fellow player. His 38 wins during that season was a Boston record that was eclipsed only in the 1982–83 season, by Pete Peeters (who won 40 of 62 games played); since then, no Bruins goaltender has had more than 37 wins in a season. His 14 consecutive wins that regular season also set an NHL record, which has since been tied by 3 other goaltenders. Thompson is the all time Bruins leader for shutouts and goals against average. Thompson held the records for most games played (468) and wins (252) by a Bruins goaltender until 2019, when both records were surpassed by Tuukka Rask. Throughout his entire NHL career, Thompson accrued 81 shutouts, which is sixth all time in NHL history, He also posted seven shutouts in the playoffs. He is fifth all time in goals against average, allowing on average only 2.08 per a 60 minute span. He led all goaltenders in regular season games played 10 times, and in regular season wins five times. He was survived by his wife, Edith, and his daughter, Sandra.

Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP W L T Min GA SO GAA GP W L T Min GA SO GAA 1919–20 Calgary Monarchs CCJHL — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1919–20 Calgary Monarchs M Cup — — — — — — — — 2 1 0 1 120 11 0 5.50 1920–21 Calgary Alberta Grain CCSHL — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1921–22 Bellevue Bulldogs ASHL — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1922–23 Bellevue Bulldogs ASHL — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1923–24 Bellevue Bulldogs ASHL — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1923–24 Bellevue Bulldogs Al Cup — — — — — — — — 4 1 2 1 240 10 1 2.50 1924–25 Duluth Hornets USAHA 40 17 20 3 1920 59 11 1.38 — — — — — — — — 1925–26 Minneapolis Millers CHL 36 — — — 2160 59 10 1.64 3 3 0 0 180 1 2 0.33 1926–27 Minneapolis Millers AHA 38 17 11 10 2253 51 9 1.42 6 3 3 0 361 8 1 1.33 1927–28 Minneapolis Millers AHA 40 28 7 5 2475 51 12 1.23 8 4 0 4 520 3 5 0.38 1928–29 Boston Bruins NHL 44 26 13 5 2710 52 12 1.15 5 5 0 0 300 3 3 0.60 1929–30 Boston Bruins NHL 44 38 5 1 2680 98 3 2.19 6 3 3 0 432 12 0 1.67 1930–31 Boston Bruins NHL 44 28 10 6 2730 90 3 1.98 5 2 3 0 343 13 0 2.27 1931–32 Boston Bruins NHL 43 13 19 11 2698 103 9 2.29 — — — — — — — — 1932–33 Boston Bruins NHL 48 25 15 8 3000 88 11 1.76 5 2 3 0 438 9 0 1.23 1933–34 Boston Bruins NHL 48 18 25 5 2980 130 5 2.62 — — — — — — — — 1934–35 Boston Bruins NHL 48 26 16 6 2970 112 8 2.26 4 1 3 0 275 7 1 1.53 1935–36 Boston Bruins NHL 48 22 20 6 2930 82 10 1.68 2 1 1 0 120 8 1 4.00 1936–37 Boston Bruins NHL 48 23 18 7 2970 110 6 2.22 3 1 2 — 180 8 1 2.67 1937–38 Boston Bruins NHL 48 30 11 7 2970 89 7 1.80 3 0 3 — 212 6 0 1.70 1938–39 Boston Bruins NHL 5 3 1 1 310 8 0 1.55 — — — — — — — — 1938–39 Detroit Red Wings NHL 39 16 17 6 2397 101 4 2.53 6 3 3 — 374 15 1 2.41 1939–40 Detroit Red Wings NHL 46 16 24 6 2830 120 3 2.54 5 2 3 — 300 12 0 2.40 1940–41 Buffalo Bisons AHL 1 0 0 0 40 1 0 1.50 — — — — — — — — 1942–43 Calgary RCAF Mustangs CNDHL — — — — — — — — 4 — — — — 11 0 3.00 NHL totals 553 284 194 75 34,175 1183 81 2.08 44 20 24 0 2974 93 7 1.88