• Honoured member of Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame (1984)
• NHL Calder Trophy as league rookie of the year (1948-49)
• NHL leader in playoff scoring (1950)
• EAHL First-Team all-star (1947)
• John Carlin Trophy EAHL Top Scorer (1947)
Pentti Lund's career statistics courtesy of Hockey Database

Bio--Although born in Karijoki, Finland, near Helsinki, Pentti Lund moved to Port Arthur with his family when he was only six years old.

Growing up in the Lakehead Lund went on to play his junior hockey with the Port Arthur West-Enders and the Port Arthur Navy team from 1942 to 1945. During his two seasons with the navy club, he led the league in scoring.

He turned pro in 1945-46 with the Boston Olympics of the EAHL. During the playoffs of that year he scored 15 points in only nine games. During his second year as an Olympic he led the league in scoring as well and went on to earn league first team all-star laurels.

In 1947-48, he graduated to the AHL where he skated for the Hershey Bears. He put up very solid numbers over the course of the regular season and was rewarded with an appearance in two Boston Bruins playoff games. During the off-season, however, Lund was traded to the New York Rangers.

There, he got his NHL career off to a great start by winning the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie on the strength of his 30 points in 59 games and thus becoming the first Finnish-born player to score a goal in the NHL.

In capturing the NHL's rookie of the year award he joined three other Lakehead products in Gaye Stewart, Gus Bodnar, and Edgar Laprade who earned the Calder trophy in the 1940s.

In his second Ranger campaign, he saved his best for the playoffs, pumping home a remarkable six goals and five assists in 12 matches. That point total was good enough to lead all NHL players in postseason point production.

Lund would eventually return to Boston where he would round out his NHL career that was cut short due to an injury suffered while with the Rangers during the 1951-52 campaign.

After the close of the 1952-53 campaign, Lund was traded to the Victoria Cougars. But instead of reporting to the West Coast, he decided to reclaim his amateur status with a senior club in Sault Ste. Marie. He skated with the club for two seasons before retiring in 1955.

Following retirement from hockey Lund would go on to lengthy career as Sports Editor for the Times-News in Thunder Bay.

Pentti Lund would be enshrined in the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.