Given the question: Facts:   - weight lb: 160    - played for: chicago black hawks    - career end: 1964    - position: centre    - height in: 10    - death date: 3 february 2009    - shoots: left      - height ft: 5    - birth date: 1 may 1929    - career start: 1949    - birth place: banbridge , northern ireland , gbr   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of sid finney .
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joseph sidney finney -lrb- may 1 , 1929 -- february 3 , 2009 -rrb- was a professional ice hockey centre during the 1950s and early 1960s in the whl .finney played two seasons in the nhl with the chicago black hawks .he would go on to become the 13th all-time scorer in the western hockey league .he led the calgary stampeders to a championship in 1954 and led the whl in scoring with 45 goals in 1958 .