Jack Bownass

John "Jack" Bownass (born July 27, 1930, Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Canadian ice hockey player whose professional career spanned from 1950 to 1971. He played 80 NHL games with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers between 1958 and 1961, spending the bulk of his career in the minor leagues. He served as captain of the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers in the Eastern Professional Hockey League in the early 1960s. After retiring as a player, he coached the Canadian national second team in Ottawa, recruited by Father David Bauer ahead of the 1968 Winter Olympics. He is an Honoured Member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame. He died February 10, 2010, in Winnipeg.