Eddie Bush

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Edward Webster Bush (July 11, 1918 — May 31, 1984) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and coach. He played 26 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings between 1939 and 1942. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1938 to 1951, was spent in various minor leagues. He later became a coach, spending several years in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, finishing by coaching the Kansas City Scouts of the NHL for 32 games during their second and final season in 1975–76.

Bush began his career by playing junior hockey in Guelph, Ontario. He then became a hockey vagabond, playing on fourteen separate squads over thirteen years as a professional. He played 26 games over parts of two seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, but spent most of his career in the American Hockey League Bush also saw his career interrupted by military service, as he took off the entire 1945 46 campaign to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Bush's five point Game 3 in the 1942 Stanley Cup Finals remains the record for defensemen in a championship round game. In 1950, Bush began his long coaching career by presiding over his hometown junior club, the Collingwood Shipbuilders. He later led a variety of other teams, including the Guelph Biltmores , Kitchener Rangers and Hamilton Red Wings ( he coached Hamilton to a 1962 Memorial Cup victory) of junior hockey, and the Quebec Aces and Richmond Robins of the AHL. He took a job as a scout with the fledgling Kansas City Scouts, and he served as interim coach for 32 games in 1976.

Regular seasonPlayoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1936–37 Guelph Indians OHA 10 7 3 10 24 5 2 1 3 8 1937–38 Guelph Indians OHA 14 8 4 12 41 9 7 6 13 18 1937–38 Guelph Indians M Cup — — — — — 3 1 0 1 6 1938–39 Detroit Red Wings NHL 8 0 0 0 0 — — — — — 1938–39 Pittsburgh Hornets IAHL 16 1 2 3 18 — — — — — 1938–39 Kansas City Greyhounds AHA 25 4 13 17 69 — — — — — 1939–40 Indianapolis Capitals AHL 41 7 10 17 49 2 0 0 0 2 1940–41 Indianapolis Capitals AHL 19 2 3 5 33 — — — — — 1940–41 Providence Reds AHL 37 8 10 18 60 4 2 0 2 11 1941–42 Detroit Red Wings NHL 18 4 6 10 60 11 1 6 7 23 1941–42 Providence Reds AHL 36 12 24 36 62 — — — — — 1942–43 Toronto RCAF OHA Sr 8 0 2 2 25 1 0 2 2 2 1942–43 Toronto RCAF Al Cup — — — — — 2 0 1 1 38 1943–44 Dartmouth RCAF NSDHL 3 1 3 4 4 — — — — — 1944–45 Dartmouth RCAF NSDHL 4 1 1 2 6 — — — — — 1946–47 St. Louis Flyers AHL 34 5 14 19 71 — — — — — 1946–47 Providence Reds AHL 26 7 11 18 111 — — — — — 1947–48 Philadelphia Rockets AHL 68 24 48 72 163 — — — — — 1948–49 Philadelphia Rockets AHL 46 2 16 18 72 — — — — — 1948–49 Cleveland Barons AHL 21 3 5 8 41 1 0 0 0 4 1949–50 Cincinnati Mohawks IHL 8 0 2 2 12 — — — — — 1949–50 Louisville Blades USHL 8 0 7 7 28 — — — — — 1949–50 Sherbrooke Saints QSHL 31 7 18 25 89 8 4 2 6 16 1949–50 Sherbrooke Saints Al Cup — — — — — 10 2 7 9 27 1950–51 Collingwood Shipbuilders OHA Sr — — — — — — — — — — IAHL/AHL totals 352 71 145 216 692 7 2 0 2 17 NHL totals 26 4 6 10 60 11 1 6 7 23