{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (1928–2019)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Use Canadian English|date=February 2024}} '''Gordon McLean Simpson''' (May 10, 1928 – July 11, 2019) was a Canadian ice hockey player. As a defenceman, he played with the Winnipeg Maroons for 14 years. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-266080/SIMPSON_GORDON|title=SIMPSON GORDON - Obituaries - Winnipeg Free Press Passages}}</ref>
The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association merged the Canada men's national ice hockey team into the Maroons in 1965, and Simpson continued as coach. Father David Bauer, who had founded the national team, continued as its manager and saw the merger as the beginning of a truly national team based in the geographic centre of the country.<ref>{{cite book|last=Oliver|first=Greg|title=Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey|publisher=ECW Press|date=2017|location=Toronto, Ontario|isbn=978-1-77041-249-1|pages=124–127}}</ref>
==Awards and achievements== *Allan Cup Championship (1964) *"Honoured Member" of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
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==External links== *{{hockeydb|23623}} *[http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/players.html?category=9&id=175 Gord Simpson’s biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311114509/http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/players.html?category=9&id=175 |date=March 11, 2012 }} at [https://web.archive.org/web/20141004060054/http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/index.html Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Gord}} Category:1928 births Category:2019 deaths Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen Category:Canada men's national ice hockey team coaches Category:Canadian ice hockey defencemen Category:Ice hockey people from Winnipeg Category:Winnipeg Monarchs players
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