Thread by @sportslogosnet

They say it's #NationalDonutDay, so let's take a logo look back at the most famous name to bridge the sports and donut worlds, Mr. Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton.

After a couple of seasons as a teenager with the junior St. Michael's Majors, Tim Horton began his pro hockey career with the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League

In three seasons on the blueline Tim scored 25 goals and won a Calder Cup his final season there in 1952

Tim made his NHL debut as a 20 year old in 1950 but it wasn't until 1952 that he was with the big club for good. In 20(!) seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Tim scored over 100 goals, won 4 Stanley Cups and made the NHL All-Star Team 6 times.

It was during his time in Toronto that Tim began investing in local businesses. Among a few there was Tim Horton's Hamburgers and of course, the now famous Tim Horton's Donuts.

With just a few weeks left in the 1969-70 season, his 20th in Toronto, Tim Horton was traded to the New York Rangers for a player to be named later (Denis Dupéré).

Tim played another full season in New York making it into the semi-finals in 1971 before losing in 7 to Chicago.

In the off-season Horton was going back to Pittsburgh, claimed from the Rangers by the Penguins in the intra-league draft (waivers before waivers). Horton played just a single season in Pittsburgh, before again getting knocked out by Chicago in the playoffs, a sweep in round 1.

Tim was again claimed in the intra-league draft the next off-season, this time heading to the relatively new Buffalo Sabres. Now in his mid-40s and, by many accounts, barely able to see the puck while on the ice, Tim scored just one goal in his two seasons with the Sabres.

Tim Horton played his final game on February 20, 1974, a loss against the Leafs at Maple Leafs Gardens where he spent 20 years on the blueline. He sat out the third period due to an injury but still claimed the third star.

Nobody knew at the time it would be his last game.

Following the game, driving back on his own to Buffalo from Toronto after meeting with his doughnut shop business partner, Tim Horton is killed in a car accident on the QEW near St. Catharines, Ontario at 4:30am at the age of 44.

Tim Horton was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as soon as he was eligible in 1977 following a 24-year career in the NHL. The Maple Leafs (#7) and Sabres (#2) retired his number in the years since and both have statues of Horton outside their home arenas.

At the time of his death, Tim Horton's Doughnuts was the 3rd largest doughnut chain in Canada. Now it's one of the largest in the world with nearly 5000 locations in Canada, the US, UK, Europe, and Asia.

Tim Horton's legacy in hockey lives on with the TimBits Learn to Play Program, providing ice time and hockey resources to kids under the age of 7 throughout Canada.