High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Hergesheimer (born January 8, 1927 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward.Hergesheimer started his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers. He would also play with the Chicago Black Hawks. His career lasted from 1952 to 1959. His brother was Phil Hergesheimer.The National Hockey League (French: Ligue nationale de hockey LNH), often abbreviated to the NHL, is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which six are located in Canada and twenty-four in the United States.