Former NHL player and coach dies
Posted Apr 10, 2020 12:56 pm.
Last Updated Apr 10, 2020 12:57 pm.
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CALGARY – Former NHL player and coach Tom Webster has died at the age of 71.
The American Hockey League confirmed his death on Friday afternoon.
Webster, from Kirkland Lake, Ont., began his NHL career with the Boston Bruins before playing with the Detroit Red Wings and California Golden Seals.
He had 33 goals and 42 assists in 102 career NHL games, but that was far from the end of Webster’s professional hockey career.
Webster jumped to the upstart World Hockey Association for its inaugural season in 1972, scoring 53 goals and adding 50 assists with the New England Whalers that year.
He spent six seasons with New England, tallying 220 goals and 205 assists in 352 games.
