Grindy Forrester

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 GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1903–04 Barrie Hockey Club OHA 4 4 0 4 3 – – – – – 1904–05 Thessalon HC OHA-I – – – – – – – – – – 1905–06 Portage Lakes Hockey Club IPHL 20 4 0 4 16 – – – – – 1906–07 Portage Lakes Hockey Club IPHL 22 15 3 18 14 – – – – – 1907–08 Pittsburgh Athletic Club WPHL 4 1 0 1 – – – – – – 1907–08 Winnipeg Maple Leafs MPHL 11 2 1 3 9 – – – – – 1908 Winnipeg Maple Leafs Stanley Cup – – – – – 2 0 0 0 3 1908–09 Winnipeg Maple Leafs MPHL 8 7 4 11 6 – – – – – 1909–10 Montreal Shamrocks CHA 1 1 0 1 0 – – – – – 1910 Montreal Shamrocks NHA 8 0 0 0 0 – – – – – IPHL totals 42 19 3 22 30 – – – – – WPHL totals 19 9 5 14 15 – – – – –

Statistics per Society for International Hockey Research at sihrhockey.org