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Tim HortonMiles Gilbert "Tim" Horton (January 12, 1930 - February 21, 1974) was a Canadian hockey player and founder of the Tim Hortons doughnut chain. Tim Horton was born in Cochrane, Ontario and grew up playing hockey in the small leagues of northern Ontario. He was drafted into the NHL by the Toronto Maple Leafs, whom he played with for seventeen years and with whom he won four Stanley Cups. Horton later played with the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres. Horton was a steady, if not spectacular, defenseman. Tim Horton invested some of his money with partner Ron Joyce in a coffee and donut shop in Hamilton, Ontario. Horton had little to do with the chain and it was run and expanded by Joyce. In 1974, while driving from Toronto to Buffalo in a new sportscar, Horton was killed in a car accident. He had been going over a hundred miles per hour and had been taking pain killers due to a jaw injury. The entire NHL went into mourning, especially the Buffalo Sabres, a franchise which he had played a crucial role in building. When he died in a road accident on his way to Buffalo in 1974, he left behind a wife, four daughters and a son. Horton was admitted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1977, but his fame today is due mostly to the chain of coffee and doughnut stores named after him. External links Horton, Tim Horton, Tim Horton, Tim Horton, Tim Horton, Tim Horton, Tim Horton, Tim
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