Jack Bownass


John Jack Bownass was a Canadian ice hockey player. In the early 1960s he served as captain of the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers in the Eastern [Professional Hockey League (1959–1963)|Eastern Professional Hockey League]. He went on to play 80 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers from 1958 to 1961. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1950 to 1971, was spent in the minor leagues. He was born and died in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association established a second Canada men's [national ice hockey team|Canadian national team] in 1967, to increase the available pool of players at the 1968 Winter Olympics, and Father David Bauer recruited Bownass to coach the second team which was based in Ottawa.

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