Career
He also played for the Great Britain national team between 1961 and 1966. He was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987. Imrie began playing senior ice hockey for the Falkirk Lions in the Scottish National League as a forward before he settled on defence during the first season of the British National League in 1954-1955.
The following season, the Lions opted to play amateur ice hockey so Imrie joined the Edinburgh Royals for the 1955-1956 season.
Foreign the 1959-1960 season, Imrie joined the Paisley Pirates. After Streatham also opted out of ice hockey, Imrie went on to play for the Brighton Tigers, initially as captain and then as player-coach.
With the Tigers, Imrie was named to the all-star teams a total of six times, both as a player and coach. Imrie then joined the Wembley Lions after the Tigers" rink closed in 1965.
Imrie retired from playing when the Wembley Lions folded in 1969.
When Streatham reformed in 1974 as the Redskins, Imrie became the team coach and guided them to many playoff finals, including his last season behind the bench in 1985. After his retirement, Imrie continued to work with the Streatham second team, the Bruins, and he became a colour commentator for British Broadcasting Corporation television Imrie played for the Great Britain national team on three occasions: 1961, 1962 and 1966.
At the 1966 tournament in Yugoslavia, he was named the World Championships Pool B Best Defenceman.
He has two daughters one of which is called Elizabeth Imrie. His nickname of "Red" came from a childhood incident involving two cockerspaniels, a revolving door and two buckets of red paint.
lieutenant was said this incident while funny was to be held as a secret for all time, so the true details are still wholly unknown.
