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Walter Lawrence “Gus” Kyle 1902 - 1987

Walter Lawrence Kyle of Affton, St. Louis County, Missouri United States was born on April 1, 1902, and died at age 85 years old in June 1987.

Walter Lawrence Kyle

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Affton, St. Louis County, Missouri 63124, United States

April 1, 1902

June 1987

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Walter Lawrence "Gus" Kyle (September 11, 1923 – November 17, 1996) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played 203 games in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins between 1949 and 1952. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1941 to 1956, was spent in different amateur and minor leagues. Kyle scored six goals in his NHL career, five of them for the New York Rangers. His other goal was his lone tally for Boston. It occurred on January 13, 1952 in Boston's 5-4 home win over the Chicago Black Hawks. Following the close of his playing career, Kyle coached in the minor professional Western Hockey League and Central Hockey League between 1957 and 1964. He later spent some two decades on the St. Louis Blues radio broadcasting team. Gus is the brother of Bill Kyle. Prior to the NHL, Kyle was a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman during the years 1942 - 1947, when he purchased his discharge to play professional hockey. Professional Hockey Player, Broadcaster. He played 203 games in the National Hockey League. After signing New York Rangers as a free agent in 1949, he played two seasons with them. Traded to the Boston Bruins with Pentti Lund for Paul Ronty in 1951, he would go on to lead the NHL with 127 in penalty minutes. He was eventually sent down to the minor leagues, playing with the Calgary Stampeders until 1957 when he started coaching. He coached of the Stampeders until 1961, then moved on to the St. Louis Braves in 1962 (the Braves were a Chicago Blackhawks minor league team that featured a young future Hall of Famer Phil Esposito). When the St. Louis Blues entered the league in 1967, he switched to broadcasting for the team, First paired with the legendary Jack Buck, he later teamed up with Dan Kelly for 16 years. His signature line during intense gameplay action was "It's a real barn burner!" After he died of heart problems, his body was donated to a local medical school.Birth Born 11 Sep 1923 Dysart, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada Death 17 Nov 1996 (aged 73) Affton, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
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