Bert Monroe Knibbs (March 3, 1924 – July 31, 1998), was a

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player with the

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. He won a

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at the 1951 World Ice Hockey Championships in

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. The 1951 Lethbridge Maple Leafs team was inducted to the

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in 1974."Bert Knibbs",

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Database, accessed August 4, 2015.

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