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| George Galbraith | |||
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| Born | December 16, 1955 Pembroke, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
| Weight | 168 lb (76 kg; 12 st 0 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Caught | Left | ||
| Played for | Vojens IK (AL-Bank Ligaen) | ||
| NHL Draft | Undrafted | ||
| Playing career | 1977–2001 [1] | ||
George Galbraith (born December 16, 1955) is a Canadian-born Danish former professional ice hockey goaltender who was nicknamed King George by Danish media and fans. [2] [3] Galbraith played his entire 19-year career for Vojens IK (1977-2001) [1] , was named the Danish League Player of the Year in 1980, [4] and holds the record as the oldest player to play in the Danish premiere league at age 46. [3] Galbraith's dominance in goal is credited with leading Vojens to their first Danish championship in 1979. [3] He played at the World Championships with Denmark men's national ice hockey team in 1986 and 1994. In 2017, Galbraith was inducted into the Danish Hockey Hall of Fame. [5] [2]
Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, several of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Canadian.
Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.
Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points. The sport is known to be fast-paced and physical, with teams usually consisting of six players each: one goaltender, and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team.
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Galbraith was raised in Petawawa, Ontario and attended Clarkson University on a hockey scholarship from 1972 to 1976. [6] His mother is of Native American descent. [6] In 1982, he became a Danish citizen. [6] He is the father of ice hockey player Patrick Galbraith.
Petawawa is a town located in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. Situated in the Ottawa Valley, with a population of 17,187. Petawawa is the most populous municipality in Renfrew County.
Clarkson University is a private research university with its main campus located in Potsdam, New York, and additional graduate program and research facilities in New York State's Capital Region and Beacon, N.Y. It was founded in 1896 and has an enrollment of about 4,300 students studying toward bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in each of its schools or institutes: the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, the School of Arts & Sciences, the David D. Reh School of Business and the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering. Clarkson University ranks #8 among "Top Salary-Boosting Colleges" nationwide. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies Clarkson University as a "Doctoral University [with] High Research Activity".
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the Pre-Columbian peoples of North, Central and South America and their descendants.
