Weston Woollard "Westy" Adams Jr. [1] [2] (born October 18, 1944 [3] ) is an American businessman who served as President of the Boston Bruins from March 31, 1969, to September 30, 1975. [4]
The son of Boston Bruins President Weston Adams and the grandson of team founder Charles Adams, Adams worked for the Bruins in various roles for many years until 1968, when he was named executive vice-president. On March 31, 1969, he succeeded his father as team president after Weston Sr.'s surprise resignation. [5] The Bruins won two Stanley Cups (1970, 1972) during his first three seasons as President.
In 1973, the Adams family sold their shares in the Bruins to Storer Broadcasting, Inc. Storer allowed Adams to remain team president. [6]
In 1975 the club was sold to Louis and Jeremy Jacobs, who chose to replace Adams as president. [7]
In 1973, Adams co-founded Sailboats Northeast, a Marblehead, Massachusetts-based yacht brokerage business. He is a member and former director of the Yacht Architects and Brokers Association. An avid sailor, Adams won multiple New England Racing Championships between 1977 and 1982. [8]
Adams currently resides in Marblehead. He is a former director of the Marblehead Chamber of Commerce. [8]
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team has been in existence since 1924, making them the third-oldest active team in the NHL, and the oldest in the United States.
Robert Gordon Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time. Orr used his skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position of defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 12 seasons, the first 10 with the Boston Bruins, followed by two with the Chicago Black Hawks. Orr remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies. He holds the record for most points and assists in a single season by a defenceman. Orr won a record eight consecutive Norris Trophies as the NHL's best defenceman and three consecutive Hart Trophies as the league's most valuable player (MVP). Orr was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979 at age 31, the youngest to be inducted at that time. In 2017, Orr was named by the National Hockey League as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.
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