1963-64 Topps 10 Murray Oliver Hockey Card (Front)
1963-64 Topps 10 Murray Oliver Hockey Card (Back)
Card Notes
Enjoyed finest scoring year as Bruins first-string center. He broke in with Detroit, and was key to five-man deal midway in season of 1960-61.
En Français
A connu beaucoup de succès en jouant sur la première ligne des Bruins. Il quitta Détroit dans un échange de cinq joueur, au cours de la saison 1960-61. Ayant été le loueur clé dans cet échange.
Details
1962-63 was Murray Oliver’s finest scoring year, to that date. In 1963-64, however, Oliver had a career year with 68 points on 24 goals and 44 assists. These totals easily led the Bruins in scoring, with a 14 point edge over John Bucyk. Not only that, it placed Murray in the seventh spot in the race for the Art Ross Trophy, 21 points behind winner Stan Mikita of the Chicago Blackhawks.
Oliver would have one more season with more goals, 1971-72 with the Minnesota North Stars, when he scored 27. He accomplished this playing in seven more games than in 1963-64. He finished that 1971-72 season four goals and six points behind team leader Bill Goldsworthy.
The trade referred to on the back of this 1963-64 Topps hockey card happened on January 23, 1961. Oliver, Gary Aldcorn and Tom McCarthy went from Detroit to Boston in exchange for Leo Labine and Vic Stasiuk.
Murray’s other NHL trade of note happened on May 15, 1967. The Bruins shipped him to the Toronto Maple Leafs with Eddie Shack going in the other direction. Unfortunately for Oliver, the Buds were coming off their final Stanley Cup championship and after missing the post season over his seven seasons with Boston, he would miss another with Toronto in 1967-68.
Between 1957-58 and 1974-75, Murray Oliver played in 1,127 regular season and 35 playoff games in the National Hockey League with the Red Wings, Bruins, Maple Leafs and North Stars. He went behind the bench in Minnesota after retiring.