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National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its inception, the NHL had four teams—all in Canada, the league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, in 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences. The league draws many highly skilled players from all over the world, canadians have historically constituted the majority of the players in the league, with an increasing percentage of American and European players in recent seasons. The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association, founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, frank Calder was chosen as its first president, serving until his death in 1943. The Bulldogs were unable to play, and the remaining owners created a new team in Toronto, the first games were played on December 19,1917. The Montreal Arena burned down in January 1918, causing the Wanderers to cease operations, the NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition back then. Toronto won the first NHL title, and then defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Canadiens won the title in 1919, however their Stanley Cup Final against the PCHAs Seattle Metropolitans was abandoned as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Montreal in 1924 won their first Stanley Cup as a member of the NHL, the Hamilton Tigers, won the regular season title in 1924–25 but refused to play in the championship series unless they were given a C$200 bonus. The league refused and declared the Canadiens the league champion after defeated the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-final. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League for the 1925 Stanley Cup and it was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation. The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons, the Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, the New York Rangers were added in 1926. The Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars were also added after the league purchased the assets of the defunct WCHL, a group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, the second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenzs family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game
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Ice hockey
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Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponents net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six each, one goaltender. A fast-paced, physical sport, ice hockey is most popular in areas of North America, Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. In North America, the National Hockey League is the highest level for mens hockey, the Kontinental Hockey League is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe. The International Ice Hockey Federation is the governing body for international ice hockey. The IIHF manages international tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking, worldwide, there are ice hockey federations in 74 countries. Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th century United Kingdom and these games were brought to North America and several similar winter games using informal rules were developed, such as shinny and ice polo. The contemporary sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day. Amateur ice hockey began in the 1880s, and professional ice hockey originated around 1900. The Stanley Cup, emblematic of ice hockey club supremacy, was first awarded in 1893 to recognize the Canadian amateur champion, in international competitions, the national teams of six countries predominate, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Of the 69 medals awarded all-time in mens competition at the Olympics, in the annual Ice Hockey World Championships,177 of 201 medals have been awarded to the six nations. In Russia and the Ukraine, where hockey can also refer to bandy, the name hockey has no clear origin. The English historian and biographer John Strype did not use the word hockey when he translated the proclamation in 1720, the 1573 Statute of Galway banned a sport called hokie—the hurling of a little ball with sticks or staves. A form of this word was thus being used in the 16th century, though much removed from its current usage. According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word derives from the Scots Gaelic puc or the Irish poc. The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck. Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times, in Europe, these games included the Irish game of hurling, the closely related Scottish game of shinty and versions of field hockey. IJscolf, a game resembling colf on a surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age. It was played with a curved bat, a wooden or leather ball
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Newsy Lalonde
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He played for the Montreal Canadiens – considered to be the original Flying Frenchman – in the National Hockey Association and the NHL. He also played for the WCHLs Saskatoon Sheiks, before playing professional ice hockey, he worked in a newspaper plant, where he acquired the Newsy moniker. In 1904, Lalonde started his career with the Cornwall Victorias of the Federal Amateur Hockey League, the next season, he played for the Woodstock club of the Ontario Hockey Association Senior A League. Lalonde made the trek to Sault Ste, marie, Ontario in 1906 to play in the International Professional Hockey League, hockeys first known professional league. In his one season in the Sault, he was named to the IHL Second All-Star Team, the year 1910 saw the foundation of the National Hockey Association, precursor to the NHL, and Lalonde joined the Montreal Canadiens for their first season. Lalonde scored the goal for the Montreal Canadiens. Halfway through the season, the Habs traded him to the Renfrew Creamery Kings, with the formation of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1912, Lalonde jumped to the Vancouver Millionaires, and promptly led the league in scoring its inaugural year. Vancouver traded him back to Montreal the following season for Didier Pitre, despite his holdout, he was named player-coach of the Canadiens in 1915. Newsy Lalonde played in the first-ever NHL game on December 19,1917 and he would score in each of the first six NHL games, a mark that would stand unchallenged for the rest of the century. During the 1919 Stanley Cup playoffs, Lalonde scored a spectacular seventeen goals in ten games, five and a half hours before its start, the game was postponed. With his entire team either hospitalized or confined to bed, Kennedy announced he was forfeiting the game—and the Cup—to the Metropolitans, however, the Metropolitans felt it would be unsporting to accept the trophy under the circumstances, and the fifth game was never played. Accordingly, Dandurand sold Lalonde to Saskatoon the following year in violation of the regulations then in force. The deal was disputed, and eventually—and grudgingly—the Canadiens accepted the amateur Aurel Joliat in compensation, on a line with future Hall of Famer Bill Cook, Lalonde achieved his final scoring title as playing coach of the Sheiks, although the team had a poor overall record. The next two seasons the team was much improved, but Lalonde himself was finally feeling his age and was no longer an impact player and he scored the final goal of his career on March 2,1925, against Vancouver. The following season he played three regular season games and two games, the last for the Saskatoon franchise before the Western Hockey League folded. The following season,1927, Lalonde was named the coach of the New York Americans. He played as a substitute for one game in November 1926 before hanging up his skates for good. After his retirement, he served as the head coach of the Ottawa Senators between 1929 and 1931, and of the Canadiens between 1932 and 1935
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Montreal Canadiens
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The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the clubs official name is le Club de hockey Canadien. The team is referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens, Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle, Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux, Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. Founded in 1909, the Canadiens are the longest continuously operating professional ice hockey team worldwide, the franchise is one of the Original Six teams, a description used for the teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion. The teams championship season in 1992–93 was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other franchise. They have won 24 Stanley Cups,22 of them since 1927, on a percentage basis, as of 2014, the franchise has won 25. Since 1996, the Canadiens have played their games at Centre Bell. The team previously played at the Montreal Forum which housed the team for seven decades and all, the Canadiens were founded by J. Ambrose OBrien on December 4,1909, as a charter member of the National Hockey Association, the forerunner to the National Hockey League. It was to be the team of the community in Montreal, composed of francophone players. The teams first season was not a success, as they placed last, after the first year, ownership was transferred to George Kennedy of Montreal and the teams fortunes improved over the next seasons. The team won its first Stanley Cup championship in the 1915–16 season, in 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season, the club began the 1930s decade successfully, with Stanley Cup wins in 1930 and 1931. The Canadiens and its rival, the Montreal Maroons, declined both on the ice and economically during the Great Depression. Losses grew to the point where the team owners considering selling the team to interests in Cleveland, Ohio, the Maroons still suspended operations, and several of their players moved to the Canadiens. Led by the Punch Line of Maurice Rocket Richard, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach in the 1940s, the Canadiens added ten more championships in 15 seasons from 1965 to 1979, with another dynastic run of four-straight Cups from 1976 to 1979. In the 1976–77 season, the Canadiens set two still-standing team records — for most points, with 132, and fewest losses, by losing eight games in an 80-game season. The next season, 1977–78, the team had a 28-game unbeaten streak, scotty Bowman, who would later set a record for most NHL victories by a coach, was the teams head coach for its last five Stanley Cup victories in the 1970s
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Ottawa Senators (original)
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The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907. Generally acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest teams of the early days of the sport. Ottawa HC played in the first season during which the Stanley Cup was challenged in 1893, the club repeated its success in the 1920s, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927. In total, the won the Stanley Cup eleven times. In 1950, Canadian sports editors selected the Ottawa HC/Senators as Canadas greatest team in the first half of the 20th century. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, when it relocated the NHL franchise to St. Louis, Missouri, the organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, team in Quebec senior mens leagues until 1954. The Ottawa Hockey Club was founded by a group of like-minded hockey enthusiasts. A month after witnessing games of hockey at the 1883 Montreal Winter Carnival, Halder Kirby, Jack Kerr and Frank Jenkins met, being the first organized ice hockey club in Ottawa, and also the first in Ontario, the club had no other clubs to play that season. The only activities that winter were practices at the Royal Rink starting on March 5,1883, the club first participated competitively at the 1884 Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament wearing red and black uniforms. Future Ottawa mayor Nelson Porter is recorded as the scorer of the clubs first-ever goal, Frank Jenkins was the first captain of the team, he later became the president of the Hockey Club in 1891 and of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1892. For the 1885 season, the club adopted gold and blue as its colours, Ottawa earned its first-ever victory at the tournament over the Montreal Victorias, but lost its final match to the Montreal Hockey Club to place second in the tournament. The 1886 Montreal tournament was cancelled due to an outbreak of smallpox, on December 8,1886, the first championship league, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was founded in Montreal. It was composed of clubs from Montreal plus a Quebec City club. Ottawas Thomas D. Green was named the first president of the league, under the format, Ottawa lost the one challenge it played in that first 1887 season to the Montreal Victorias. After that season, Ottawa HC became inactive, the Royal Rink, which had been their primary facility, had been converted to a roller skating rink, and ice rink facilities were at a shortage. This changed with the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink in February 1889, One of the principal organizers in the restarting of the team was Ottawa Journal publisher P. D. Ross, who also played on the team
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National Hockey Association
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The National Hockey Association, officially the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited, was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the predecessor to todays National Hockey League. Founded in 1909 by Ambrose OBrien, the NHA introduced six-man hockey by removing the rover position in 1911, during its lifetime, the league coped with competition for players with the rival Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the enlistment of players for World War I and disagreements between owners. The disagreements between owners came to a head in 1917, when the NHA suspended operations in order to get rid of an unwanted owner. The remaining NHA team owners started the NHL in parallel as a measure, to continue play while negotiations went on with Livingstone. A year later, after no progress was reached with Livingstone, the NHAs rules, constitution and trophies were continued in the NHL. In November 1909, the Eastern Canada Hockey Association, holder of the Stanley Cup, the Montreal Wanderers team of the ECHA had been bought by P. J. Doran, owner of the Jubilee Rink in Montreal and he intended to move the teams games there. The Jubilee was smaller than the Wanderers current rink, the Montreal Arena which meant visiting teams would earn less on their trips to play the Wanderers. On November 25,1909, the teams in the league disbanded the ECHA and formed the new Canadian Hockey Association. The team had applied to the Stanley Cup trustees as champions of the Federal League, at the November 25 CHA founding meeting, held at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal, OBrien applied to join the CHA but the application was rejected. Sitting in the lobby of the hotel after the CHA meeting, OBrien met Jimmy Gardner of the Wanderers, together, they decided to form their own league, the National Hockey Association. At the same time, to build a rivalry and capture francophone interest in Montreal, OBrien and Gardner conceived of creating a team consisting of francophone players, to be managed by francophones. In all, OBrien and his father, Michael John OBrien, were financing four teams in the league, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, Cobalt, Haileybury, the Cobalt and Haileybury clubs were from the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League and Renfrew from the Federal Hockey League. Along with the Wanderers, the league had five teams, the OBriens were determined to win the Stanley Cup and a bidding war for players immediately started. Frank Patrick and Lester Patrick were each signed by the Renfrew Millionaires for $3,000 apiece, Renfrew also signed star player Cyclone Taylor of the champion Ottawa Senators team, reputedly at $5,000 per season. Attendance at the CHA games was poor and a meeting of the NHA was held on January 15,1910 to discuss a merger of the two leagues. Instead, the NHA admitted Ottawa and the Montreal Shamrocks to the NHA, the owners of the Montreal Le National were offered the ownership of the Canadiens but turned it down. The Quebec Bulldogs and the teams of the CHA were not even considered for membership
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Eddie Livingstone
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Edward James Livingstone was a Canadian sports team owner and manager. Livingstone was born in Toronto, Ontario as the youngest of three children and he played junior and intermediate ice hockey with the St. Georges Club in Toronto, before becoming an Ontario Hockey Association referee. He also covered ice hockey for the Toronto Mail and Empire, Livingstone became manager of ice hockey and football at the Toronto Rugby and Athletic Association. His success in amateur hockey prompted Livingstone to make the jump to the game by buying the struggling Toronto Ontarios of the National Hockey Association. During the 1914–15 season, the Ontarios traded in their orange sweaters for green and were renamed the Toronto Shamrocks, the team skated to a record of 7 wins and 13 losses, an improvement of three games over the 1913–14 campaign. During the 1914–15 season, on February 3,1915, Sammy Lichtenheins Montreal Wanderers were awarded a game by forfeit over the Shamrocks. The Shamrocks had told the league that they couldnt put a team on the ice without George McNamara and Howard McNamara. Livingstone asked for a postponement, but Lichtenhein refused and the league ruled the game forfeited, in a gesture of sportsmanship, Lichtenhein then made an offer to reschedule the game and play the Shamrocks on March 6,1915. Shortly after, with the Wanderers and Ottawa in a tight race for the league championship. Lichtenhein was incensed and threatened to have Livingstone thrown out of the NHA, the Wanderers and Ottawa ended the season tied for first place. The NHA executive met on March 4 and decided to recognize the forfeit, instead, a two-game, total-goals series was scheduled between Montreal and Ottawa to determine the champion. The league also rejected Lichtenheins request to have Livingstone expelled from the NHA, Livingstone and Lichtenhein would continue to feud for years. At one meeting during the 1916–17 campaign, Lichtenhein grew so infuriated that he offered Livingstone $3,000 to abandon his team, Livingstone countered with a $5,000 bid for Lichtenhein to shut down his Wanderers. Before the 1915–16 season, Frank Robinson sold the Toronto Blueshirts — the NHAs other Toronto franchise — to Livingstone, the NHA didnt want one owner to have two clubs in the league, and Livingstone said that he would sell the Shamrocks. To fill the holes in his lineup, Livingstone transferred Shamrocks players to the Blueshirts, when he hadnt sold the team by the November 20,1915 deadline set by the league, the NHA seized the franchise and kept it dormant for the season. Before the season began, Livingstone argued with the owners of Arena Gardens over the terms for the use of their facility, the NHA said that it would not allow the move. The 1916–17 campaign was a one for the NHA. Canada intensified its contribution to World War I, and a number of pro, the 228th Battalion, CEF of the Canadian infantry formed a team in the NHA, taking the place of the suspended Toronto Shamrocks franchise and sharing Arena Gardens with the Blueshirts
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Stanley Cup
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The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoff winner. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games, Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. After a series of mergers and folds, it was established as the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926. There are actually three Stanley Cups, the bowl of the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the authenticated Presentation Cup. The NHL has maintained control over both the trophy itself and its associated trademarks. Nevertheless, the NHL does not actually own the trophy, the original bowl was made of silver and is 18.5 centimetres in height and 29 centimetres in diameter. The current Stanley Cup, topped with a copy of the bowl, is made of a silver and nickel alloy, it has a height of 89.54 centimetres. Unlike the trophies awarded by the major professional sports leagues of North America. Originally, the winners kept it until a new champion was crowned, currently, winning teams get the Stanley Cup during the summer and a limited number of days during the season. It is unusual among trophies to include winning members names, every year since 1924, a select portion of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff names are engraved on its bands. However, there is not enough room to include all the players and non-players, initially a new band added each year, though this caused the trophy to grow in size, earning the nickname Stovepipe Cup. In 1958 the modern one-piece Cup was designed with a barrel which could contain 13 winning teams per band. To prevent the Stanley Cup from growing, when the band is full, the oldest band is removed and preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanleys Cup, The Holy Grail, the Stanley Cup is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions, the oldest of which is the celebratory drinking of champagne out of the cup by the winning team. Since the 1914–15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 100 times by 18 active NHL teams, prior to that, the challenge cup was held by nine different teams. The Montreal Canadiens have won the Cup a record 24 times and are the most recent Canadian-based team to win the cup, the Stanley Cup was not awarded in 1919 because of a Spanish flu epidemic, and in 2005, as a consequence of the 2004–05 NHL lockout. After the Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada on June 11,1888, he, Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreals 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club. The Montreal Gazette reported that he expressed his delight with the game of hockey
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1918 flu pandemic
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The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. Disease had already greatly limited life expectancy in the early 20th century, a considerable spike occurred at the time of the pandemic, specifically the year 1918. Life expectancy in the United States alone dropped by about 12 years, most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients, in contrast, the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. There are several explanations for the high mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Some research suggests that the variant of the virus had an unusually aggressive nature. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin. It was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s, in Spain, a different nickname was adopted, the Naples Soldier, which came from a musical operetta titled La canción del olvido, which premiered in Madrid during the first epidemic wave. Federico Romero, one of the librettists, quipped that the plays most popular musical number, the site of the very first confirmed outbreak was at Camp Funston, within Fort Riley in Kansas, USA at a military training facility preparing American troops for involvement in World War I. The first victim diagnosed with the new strain of flu on Monday, historian Alfred W. Crosby recorded that the flu originated in Kansas and popular writer John Barry echoed Crosby in describing Haskell County, Kansas, as the point of origin. These researchers postulated that a significant precursor virus, harbored in birds, earlier hypotheses of the epidemics origin have varied. Some hypothesized the flu originated in East Asia and he considered several other hypotheses of origin, such as Spain, Kansas, and Brest, as being possible, but not likely. Political scientist Andrew Price-Smith published data from the Austrian archives suggesting the influenza had earlier origins, in fact, it found evidence that the virus had been circulating in the European armies for months and potentially years before the 1918 pandemic. When an infected person sneezes or coughs, more than half a million virus particles can be spread to those close by, some speculate the soldiers immune systems were weakened by malnourishment, as well as the stresses of combat and chemical attacks, increasing their susceptibility. A large factor in the occurrence of this flu was increased travel. Modern transportation systems made it easier for soldiers, sailors, in the United States, the disease was first observed in Haskell County, Kansas, in January 1918, prompting local doctor Loring Miner to warn the U. S. On 4 March 1918, company cook Albert Gitchell reported sick at Fort Riley, by noon on 11 March 1918, over 100 soldiers were in the hospital. Within days,522 men at the camp had reported sick, by 11 March 1918, the virus had reached Queens, New York. Failure to take measures in March/April was later criticised
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Joe Hall
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Joseph Henry Bad Joe Hall was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Hall played senior and professional hockey from 1902 to 1919, when he died as a result of the epidemic of 1918. He won the Stanley Cup twice with the Quebec Bulldogs and once with the Kenora Thistles, Hall was born in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom and grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. He played for the Montreal Canadiens in their first two seasons in the National Hockey League from 1917-1919, Hall won the Stanley Cup with the Kenora Thistles in 1907, for which he received a loving cup which is on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He won the Cup with the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912 and 1913 and he also challenged for the Stanley Cup in 1904 with the Winnipeg Rowing Club. In 1919, Hall was part of the Montreal Canadiens team that made it to the Stanley Cup Finals, the Finals were interrupted and eventually cancelled due to an outbreak of Spanish influenza. The flu was contracted by several players on both the Canadiens and their opponents, the Seattle Metropolitans, Hall would eventually succumb to pneumonia, related to his influenza, in a hospital in Seattle, Washington just four days after the Stanley Cup Final series was abandoned. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961
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Mutual Street Arena
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Mutual Street Arena, initially called Arena Gardens or just the Arena, was an ice hockey arena and sports and entertainment venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the first home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who played at the arena under various names for their first 13½ seasons. The Arena Gardens was the third rink in Canada to feature a mechanically frozen or artificial ice surface, the Arena was also used for musical concerts, gatherings and other sporting events, including professional boxing, cycling, wrestling and tennis. In 1962, it was converted to a curling club. The building was demolished in 1989 and the Cathedral Square residential complex and it was located on Mutual Street, just south of Dundas Street East and one block east of Church Street in downtown Toronto. It was constructed for a reported cost of $500,000 and it was built on the site of the Mutual Street Rink, used primarily for curling and ice skating between Dundas Street East and Shuter Street. At the time, it was billed as the largest indoor arena in Canada, there were two other directors from Montreal. W. J. Bellingham was the initial manager and it was the first of a series called the Toronto Music Festival. Entrances to the blue and red seating sections were indicated by corresponding blue. It was followed the day by a recital by Johanna Gadski with Frankos orchestra. The festival continued all week, concluding on October 12 with a variety show headlined by Marie Dressler, Arena Gardens was initially home to two new teams in the National Hockey Association, the Toronto Hockey Club and the Tecumseh Hockey Club. Delays in construction meant that the teams could not play in the 1911-12 season, the 12 miles of piping for the artificial ice was installed improperly and had to be reinstalled in December 1912. The first professional ice hockey game in the building was on December 21,1912, upon the suspension of the NHA in 1917, the professional franchise of the new National Hockey League for Toronto was operated by the Toronto Arena itself. The franchise was operated by the Arena for two years before being sold to become the Toronto St. Patricks, the St. Pats became the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1927, and played at Arena Gardens until the completion of Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931. Until 1923, the Arena was the only facility east of Manitoba with artificial ice-making capability. With this in mind, the St. Pats often let other teams use the Arena as a site during the early and late months of the season. The year 1922 saw the first professional wrestling bout at the Arena, professional wrestling would continue at the Arena until 1938. Promoter Ivan Mickailoff began promoting shows in 1929
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The Arena, Ottawa
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The Arena, also known as Deys Arena was an arena for ice hockey located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was the home of the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1908 to 1923 and it was the third in a series of ice hockey venues built by the Dey family of Ottawa. At the time of its building, it was Canadas largest arena, the arena was built in 1907 and was built because audiences for hockey matches had out-grown the previous arena, known as Deys Rink or Deys Arena. The spectator capacity was 7,000, of which 2,500 was standing room. The Arena, as it was called, was built on leased land at Laurier Avenue at the Rideau Canal, on the location of todays Confederation Park, near the current Ottawa city hall. This is very close to the location of the first Deys Rink and it is also close to the location of the Royal Rink at 28 Slater, which was where the Ottawa Hockey Club first practised in 1883. The land for The Arena was leased from landowner Esther Sherwood for the rate of $166.66 per month, the Arena opened on January 11,1908 for a game between Ottawa and the Montreal Wanderers, the top rivalry of the day. The last Senators game at the arena was held on March 10,1923, the Ottawa Auditorium was also built by the Deys, who were part owners of the Ottawa Senators. This third rink was torn down by the government at the end of the lease in 1927 to make way for the ceremonial Driveway improvement project along the Rideau Canal. The Arena hosted the 1910 and 1911 Stanley Cup challenges, the Arena was used for other sports as well as ice hockey. The 1912 Canadian Figure Skating Championships were held in February 1912 at the Arena, boxing matches were held there including Canadian heavyweight champion Tommy Burns versus Len Darcy, and Canadian lightweight champion Bobby Ebber versus Homer LeBlanc on October 16,1925. The matches drew over two thousand fans, the Arena was a large improvement internally from the previous Dey Arena. The dressing rooms, rest rooms, smoking rooms and lobby were steam-heated, the main doors were on Laurier Avenue, and a north entrance existed onto Slater Street, which at the time extended to the Canal. The exterior was simple, and did not meet Sherwoods lease criteria of an architectural feature of Ottawa. At its building, it was the largest ice arena in Canada, the Arena ice surface was unusually shaped. Both ends are curved, with no straight sections behind the net and this design was passed along to the successor Ottawa Auditorium ice surface design. Dey Brothers rinks were home to the Senators, the long road to the Palladium
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Jubilee Arena
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The Jubilee Arena also known as Jubilee Rink was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was located at the corner of St. Catherine Street East and Alphonse-D. Roy Street and it was originally built in 1908 and held seating for 3,200 spectators. In 1918, when the Montreal Arena burned down, the Canadiens moved into Jubilee Arena on a full-time basis. On the afternoon of April 23,1919, Jubilee Arena also burned down, forcing the Habs to build, ownership of the Jubilee Rink played a significant role in the 1909 formation of the NHA. In November 1909, the owner of the Eastern Canada Hockey Association Wanderers club announced he would move the team to the Jubilee, before leaving the building, Gardner and OBrien decided to form the NHA, which was finalized on December 2. Poor ticket sales collapsed the CHA eight weeks after it was formed, National Hockey Association National Hockey League Victoria Skating Rink Mouton, Claude. Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol.1, 1893-1926 inc
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Quebec Bulldogs
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The Quebec Bulldogs were a mens senior-level ice hockey team officially known as the Quebec Hockey Club, and later as the Quebec Athletic Club. One of the first organized ice hockey clubs, the club debuted in 1878 with the opening of the Quebec Skating Rink, the club continued as an amateur team through various leagues, eventually becoming professional in 1908. The club would play in the National Hockey Association and the National Hockey League, in 1920, the team moved to Hamilton, Ontario and became the Hamilton Tigers. The Quebec Hockey Club was founded in 1878, after the construction of the Quebec Skating Rink in 1877, play was by exhibition only, against teams drawn from the club members or visiting teams from Montreal. In 1883, the played in the Montreal Winter Carnival. After the AHAC, Quebec played in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League from 1899 to 1905, the club came close to winning the Stanley Cup on two occasions. In the 1894 season Quebec tied for the AHAC regular season lead with three other clubs, the AHAC drew up plans to hold the playoff solely in Montreal. Quebec declined to play in Montreal without one game in Quebec, in 1904, Quebec won the CAHL outright. In a dispute, the club did not win the Stanley Cup or challenge for it, the Ottawa Hockey Club was the defending champions in 1903–04, but withdrew from the league. Quebec went on to win the CAHL and expected to receive the Stanley Cup as league champions, the trustees of the Cup instead ruled that the Cup went to Ottawa. In late 1909, Quebec became a member of the Canadian Hockey Association in 1909. The CHA, however, would only last one month before being absorbed into the more powerful National Hockey Association. Rejected by the new league, the Bulldogs sat out the inaugural 1910 season, the following season, 1910–11, the Bulldogs took over the defunct Cobalt Silver Kings franchise, but had a rough initiation, finishing dead last with four wins and 12 losses in a 16-game season. On a positive note, and a sign of things to come, Jack McDonald scored 14 goals and Tommy Dunderdale scored 13. For 1911–12, the Bulldogs went from worst to first, with Joe Malone having a season, to win the OBrien Cup as champions of the NHA. The Dogs record improved to 10 wins and eight losses while Malone scored 21 goals, in a Stanley Cup challenge, they crushed the Moncton Victorias in two games, 9–3 and 8–0, in the best-of-three playoff. In their third season, Quebec would again finish first overall with a record of 16-4 losses to retain the championship, Joe Malone won the scoring race with an unprecedented 43 goals. His teammate, Tommy Smith, was a second with 39
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Toronto Arenas
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The Toronto Arenas or Torontos was a professional mens ice hockey team that played in the first two seasons of the National Hockey League. It was operated by the owner of the Arena Gardens, the Toronto Arena Company, as the ownership of the National Hockey Association Toronto Blueshirts franchise was in dispute, the new NHL league was started, and a temporary Toronto franchise was operated. The NHL itself was intended to only be an entity until the NHA could be reactivated. For the first season, 1917–18, the team operated without an organization separate from the Arena Company. And without an official club nickname, however, the press would dub the team the Blue Shirts or Torontos as they had done with the NHA franchise. After the 1918-1919 season, the Arena Company was granted a permanent franchise in the NHL, the other NHA owners were eager to disassociate themselves from Livingstone, but discovered that the NHAs constitution didnt allow them to simply vote Livingstone out. With this in mind, on November 22 the NHA board of directors voted to suspend operations, at the same time, the other four NHA clubs voted to create a new league—the National Hockey League. However, they didnt invite Livingstone to join them, effectively leaving him in a one-team league, however, the other club owners felt it would be unthinkable not to have a team from Canadas second-largest city in the NHL. They also needed a team to balance the schedule, since the Bulldogs were forced to suspend operations due to financial troubles. Calder had ordered Livingstone to sell the team, but Livingstone turned down several offers, the Arena Company was given a year to resolve the dispute or lose the franchise. As the Arena Gardens was the suitable place to play at the time. The NHL had also announced that there was an agreement to buy out Livingstone. Many of the players signed contracts with both Livingstone and the Torontos, and often were paid in cash or personal cheques on a week-by-week basis, despite this uncertainty, the team was successful from the start under coach Dick Carroll and general manager Charlie Querrie. The team won the half of the 1917–18 NHL season. The Torontos won the playoff and would face off against the Vancouver Millionaires for the Stanley Cup. Toronto then won the best-of-five series 3-2, after the Cup win, the team did not engrave its name on the Stanley Cup, as would later become the custom. As such, pre-NHL Toronto could not be part of Maple Leafs history and they do, however, claim the history of the temporary Toronto franchise of 1917-18. In 1918, the NHA voted to suspend operations again
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Frank Calder
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Frank Sellick Calder was an ice hockey executive, a journalist and athlete. He is most notable for serving as the first president of the National Hockey League from 1917 until his death in 1943. He was the last president of the NHLs predecessor league, the National Hockey Association and was instrumental in the transition from the NHA to the NHL, a transition made to expel a franchise owner. He presided over the expansion of the NHL from Canada into the United States while at the same time fending off of rivals to the NHLs status as the ice hockey league. Frank Calder was born to Scottish parents in Bristol, England on November 17,1877, Calder participated in many English sports as a youth, including rugby, cricket, handball, golf, and soccer. As a young man, he immigrated to Canada and became a teacher at a private school, before leaving the United Kingdom, he flipped a coin to decide whether he should immigrate to Canada or to the United States. He married a teacher, Amelia Cole, and they had three sons and one daughter. Calder worked as an editor at the Montreal Witness. From there, he moved to the Montreal Herald and Daily Telegraph and he maintained his interest in sports, creating the Montreal School Rugby League. He was elected a member of the committee of the PQFA in 1911 and 1912. Earlier he was a referee and had refereed the game between the Montreal All-Stars and the touring Corinthians from England in 1906, on November 15,1914, Calder was appointed secretary-treasurer of the National Hockey Association. He served as secretary-treasurer until 1917 when Frank Robinson resigned as president of the NHA, in 1917, the NHAs owners decided to drop Eddie Livingstones Toronto Blueshirts franchise and took his players. The NHAs president, Frank Robinson, seeing he was as powerless as his predecessor Emmett Quinn was, Calder, the league secretary, saw opportunity in the situation. He decided that the NHA owners allied against Eddie Livingstone needed someone to represent them and he arranged meetings between the NHAs owners to figure out how to get rid of Livingstone. They decided to form a new league, the National Hockey League, Calder was elected president of the new league which was officially established on November 26,1917. Calder wielded his power as president with authority, one example of this authority occurred during the Hamilton Tigers strike in 1925. Rather than negotiate with the players, he suspended and fined them each $200, Calder was adamant that minorities would not be restricted in the NHL. Only one attempt to remove Calder as president of the NHL was made and this was in 1932–33 when the owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, Frederic McLaughlin, circulated a letter to the NHL board of governors to remove him
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Ted Dey
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Edwin Peter Ted Dey was a boat-builder, ice arena owner, and hockey team owner. He was an owner of the Ottawa Senators mens ice hockey club from 1917 until 1923 and he and his brothers Frank Edgar Dey and William Ernest Dey built the various Deys Arenas where the Senators played until 1922–23. Born in Hull, Quebec, Ted Dey was one of three brothers and two born to Joseph Dey and Annie Buckley. His father was a boat-builder in Ottawa, the brothers, William, Frank and Ted followed their father into the boat-building business. The business, now named Dey Brothers had a works on the Rideau Canal at Theodore Street. The Dey brothers built their first indoor skating rink next to the works in 1884. The brothers would become involved in the new sport of ice hockey at their rink. Ted Dey himself played games for the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1887,1889 and 1890, the rink would also become home to its own team the Deys Rink Pirates, founding members of the Ottawa City Hockey League in 1890. The building of the Canada Atlantic Railway tracks along the Rideau Canal as far north as Rideau Street meant the demolition of the works in 1895. The brothers built a new works at Patterson Creek and Bank Street. The Deys Skating Rink was the location of the first Stanley Cup win for the Ottawa Hockey Club, a third arena was built near the original skating rink, on the opposite bank of the Rideau Canal, and was known as The Arena, opening in 1907. The second skating rink was demolished in 1920 after a fire. In 1916, Dey first became involved in the management of the club and he imposed cost-cutting measures and fired the coach Alf Smith and gave the coaching duties to player Eddie Gerard. In 1917, he bought a share of the club, along with Martin Rosenthal and Tommy Gorman. In 1919, he forced Rosenthal out and became majority owner, during his ownership, the Senators won three Stanley Cups, in 1920,1921 and 1923. Dey could not bear to watch the games of the 1923 Final, after the 1923 championship, Dey sold his ownership of the club and retired. He went to live in New York city, and eventually moved in 1932 to New Westminster and his father died in 1904 and his mother in 1920. His brother William died in 1920 and his older brother Frank survived him by a few months, passing away in July 1943
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Hamby Shore
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Samuel Hamilton Shore was a Canadian professional hockey player who played several seasons for the Ottawa Senators, notably during the Silver Seven era when the club was champion from 1903 until 1906. Shore was a victim of the epidemic of 1918. Shore joined the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1904 when the club was already Stanley Cup champion, after one season, he played out west with Winnipeg Seniors, before returning to Ottawa in 1906–07. He returned to Winnipeg to play professional, with the Winnipeg Maple Leafs and he played in the Maple Leafs unsuccessful 1908 Stanley Cup challenge against the Montreal Wanderers. He did not play the season, 1908–09 due to illness. He returned to Ottawa, now a club, in the 1909–10 season. He would remain in the organization until October 1918, when he died of the Spanish flu epidemic and he was a member of a third Stanley Cup winner, in 1911. Shore was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shore, when Ruby became ill with the flu in October 1918, Shore also fell ill. Shore died of pneumonia after an illness in Rideau Street Hospital. Shore was a servant with the Canada federal government Department of the Interior at the time of his death. Stanley Cup Champion,1905,1910,1911 with Ottawa ECAHA all-star, list of ice hockey players who died during their playing career Hamby Shores career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Legends of Hockey page for Hamby Shore Hamby Shore at Find a Grave
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Pacific Coast Hockey Association
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The PCHA was considered to be a major league of ice hockey and was important in the development of the sport of professional ice hockey through its innovations. The league was started by the Patrick family, professional players from Montreal, building new arenas in Vancouver and Victoria. After a few years of play, the league was accepted by the Stanley Cup trustees as being of a high standard that teams from its league were accepted for Stanley Cup challenges. Starting in 1915, the league entered into an agreement where the Stanley Cup was to be contested between the National Hockey Association and the PCHA after the seasons were finished. The league struggled to make money, and various teams moved into different cities in an attempt to be successful financially, eventually, the league, to survive, merged with the WCHL in 1924. After playing for the Renfrew Millionaires in 1910, players Frank Patrick and Lester Patrick moved west to Nelson, after Joe decided to sell the business in January 1911, the Patricks decided then to form a new professional ice hockey league, risking the family fortune. The decision was made to put new rinks in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, locations which necessitated the use of artificial ice, three teams, the New Westminster Royals, the Victoria Senators, and the Vancouver Millionaires would be formed. The Patricks moved quickly, buying property for the arenas in February, ground was broken for the arenas in April and the arenas were completed in December. Victorias arena seated 4,000, and cost $110,000, all players were paid by the league, unlike the NHA with its competing teams. The PCHA distributed players amongst the teams, Newsy Lalonde of the Canadiens would be the most notable player to move west, to play for Vancouver. The league was organized on December 7,1911 to be run by Frank and Lester. The Victoria arena would open to the public on Christmas Day 1911, the first league championship for the Patterson Cup trophy was won by the New Westminster Royals. The league did not challenge for the Stanley Cup the first year, despite the raiding of the NHA, a March 1912 west coast tour of the NHAs all-stars was arranged, billed as a sort of World Series of hockey. The NHA all-stars included Cyclone Taylor, a name in the East. After the PCHA all-stars won the first two games 10–4 and 5–1, leaving the outcome in no doubt, the NHA manager Art Ross decided to let Taylor play at the Patricks request. Taylor would put on a display of ice hockey prowess for the British Columbia fans. For the 1912–13 season the PCHA continued to raid the east for players, besides Taylor, Goldie Prodgers, Eddie Oatman, Jack McDonald and Ernie Johnson moved out west, although Newsy Lalonde returned to Montreal. The New Westminster rink, to be built by local interests, was not ready, Victoria would win the season and the club arranged for an exhibition series of the Stanley Cup champion Quebec Bulldogs
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Frank Nighbor
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An excellent defensive forward, his poke check, backchecking and bodychecking abilities thwarted enemy forwards scoring attempts. For his somewhat high penalty totals, he was a clean player, for his contributions on the ice, Nighbor was the first player ever to be awarded the Hart Trophy and the first to be awarded the Lady Byng Trophy. Nighbor first played professionally for the Port Arthur Bearcats of the Northern Ontario Hockey League in 1911, fellow Pembroke native Harry Cameron was invited to play for Port Arthur but refused to go without Nighbor. The club agreed to bring Nighbor along, but they left him on the bench until injuries gave him an opportunity to play and he made the most of his opportunity by registering six goals in his first appearance. In 1912, he joined the new Toronto Blueshirts of the NHA where he scored 25 goals in 18 games and he had his best season in 1916–17, scoring 41 goals in 19 games, finishing tied for the league lead with Joe Malone. In 1919–20 he scored 26 goals and 15 assists in just 23 games, then had a further 6 goals in 5 playoff games, Nighbor would win the Stanley Cup again with Ottawa in 1921,1923, and 1927. Late in the 1925 season, Lady Byng, wife of the Governor-General of Canada and she showed Nighbor an ornate trophy and asked him if he thought the NHL would accept it as an award for its most gentlemanly player. Nighbor said he thought it would be a good idea—and to his surprise, Lady Byng presented him the trophy on the spot, a year earlier, he had been the first winner of the Hart Trophy. In 1929–30, Nighbor was traded to Toronto, as part of the sale of the failing Senators for Danny Cox. He played 22 games for the Maple Leafs and retired in the off-season, Nighbor was considered a master of the sweep check, as well as the poke check, an almost entirely different action, taking the puck off the opponents stick. He was skilled and crafty with the puck and a good scorer. Nighbor coached for the Buffalo Bisons and London Tecumsehs of the International League and the New York Rovers of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. He would later turn to a business he was a partner in. Nighbor died of cancer on April 13,1966 in Pembroke, Nighbor was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. He has also inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame. In 1998 he was ranked number 100 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, in March 2010, at a Quebec auction, an American collector paid $33,000 USD to secure Frank Nighbors game-worn Ottawa Senators sweater from the 1926–27 season. A street in Ottawas Kanata neighbourhood is named in memory of Nighbor - Frank Nighbor Place, the Top 100, NHL players of all time. Players, the ultimate A-Z guide of everyone who has played in the NHL. Doubleday Canada. Notes Frank Nighbors biography at Legends of Hockey Frank Nighbors career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Frank Nighbor at Find a Grave
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Jack Darragh
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John Proctor Jack Darragh was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Darragh played the position for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League. Darragh was a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams and a NHA championship team, Darragh played his entire professional career with the Ottawa Senators. He was a big part of their success, winning four Stanley Cups and he retired after that Cup win, but returned after one season to play for the Cup-winning team of 1922–23, the third in four seasons, all with Darragh in the lineup. He retired after the 1923–24 season and died a few months due to peritonitis. Stanley Cup champion,1911,1920,1921,19231963 - Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, list of ice hockey players who died during their playing career Hockey Hall of Fame. Honoured Members, Hockey Hall of Fame, Jack Darraghs biography at Legends of Hockey Jack Darragh career statistics at EliteProspects. com Jack Darraghs career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Jack Darragh at Find a Grave
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Seattle Metropolitans
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The Seattle Metropolitans were a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle, Washington which played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. They won the Stanley Cup in 1917, becoming the first United States team to do so, eleven years before the NHLs American franchise, the Metropolitans played their home games at the Seattle Ice Arena. The Metropolitans were formed in 1915 as an expansion team, to stock the team, the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association was raided. The Blueshirts had won the Stanley Cup in 1914 and this provided Seattle with a competitive squad. The Blueshirts players who moved to Seattle were Eddie Carpenter, Frank Foyston, Hap Holmes, Jack Walker, Seattle won the 1917 championship by defeating the National Hockey Associations Montreal Canadiens three games to one by a combined score of 23 to 11. Fourteen of Seattles goals were scored by Bernie Morris, games one and three were played under PCHA rules, i. e. seven players per side, forward passing in the neutral zone, and no substitution for penalized players. Games two and four were played under NHA rules, i. e. six players per side, no forward passing, after winning the 1917 Stanley Cup the Metropolitans also played in the Stanley Cup finals in 1919 and 1920, when they lost to the Ottawa Senators. During the 1920 Stanley Cup finals, the Ottawa Senators would don solid white Jerseys to avoid confusion with Seattles barber pole style of green, red and white. The 1920 Series was subsequently relocated from Ottawa to Torontos mutual artificial ice surface at Torontos Mutual Street Arena due to ice conditions. The PCHA consisted of four teams for the 1915-16 and 1916-17 seasons, from 1922-23, games against the Western Canada Hockey League counted in the PCHA standings. This allowed Seattle to have a record yet still win the league regular season championship in 1924. In 1924, the Seattle team folded and the PCHA ceased to operate, in its final season, the team had an average of 1000 fans per game in attendance. Arena owners subsequently did not renew the teams lease, the remaining teams of Vancouver and Victoria joined the WCHL for the 1924-1925 season. On December 5,2015, the Seattle Thunderbirds held a special Seattle Metropolitans Night to celebrate 100 years of Seattle hockey, during the game, the team wore replicas of the original Metropolitans jersey and temporarily changed the team name to the Seattle Metropolitans. The final score was a 3-2 Metropolitans win over the Tri-City Americans
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1919 Stanley Cup Finals
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It was the only time in the history of the Stanley Cup that it was not awarded due to a no-decision after playoffs were held. Hosting the series in Seattle was the Pacific Coast Hockey Association champion Seattle Metropolitans playing off against the National Hockey League champion Montreal Canadiens, both teams had won two games, lost two, and tied one before health officials were forced to cancel the deciding game of the series. Most of the Canadiens players and their manager George Kennedy fell ill with the flu and were hospitalized, the flu would claim the life of Canadiens defenseman Joe Hall four days later. Kennedy was permanently weakened by his illness, and it led to his death a few years later. The Canadiens won the first half of the 1918–19 NHL regular season while the Ottawa Senators won the second half, Montreal ended up winning the series, four games to one. Meanwhile, the Metropolitans finished the 1919 PCHA regular season in place with an 11–9 record. The two teams faced off in a two-game total-goals championship series, with Seattle winning game one. Vancouver recorded a 4–1 victory in two, but lost the series to the Metropolitans by a combined score of 7–5. All of the games were held at the Seattle Ice Arena, the actual game five used NHL rules, as it was considered a replay of game four. Prior to the series, Seattle star Bernie Morris was arrested by United States authorities for alleged draft dodging and he would not be released to return to hockey until 1920. Seattle dominated Montreal under PCHA rules, scoring two in the first, three in the second and a two in the third. Corbeau of Montreal was injured but finished the game and continued to play in the series as a substitute, the Canadiens evened the series in game two with Newsy Lalonde scoring all of Montreals goals. Montreal took the lead and never relinquished it, although Seattle scored two in the third in 32 seconds to make it close. Joe Hall took a puck to the nose, on a play by Cully Wilson. Back under PCHA rules, the Metropolitans won game three, 7–2, Seattle scored four goals in the first to take a commanding lead. No goals were scored in the second, in the third, Seattle prevented any comeback, outscoring Montreal 3–2. Game four ended tied, 0–0, after 20 minutes of overtime, near the close of the second overtime, Berlinguette of Montreal had an outstanding chance to win it, but missed by inches. Wilson of Seattle would mix it up with Berlinguette, who had to leave the ice, the crowd gave both teams an ovation after the game in appreciation of the teams play
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1917 Stanley Cup Finals
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Seattle defeated Montreal three games to one in a best-of-five game series to become the first United States-based team to win the Cup. It was also the first Stanley Cup Final to be played in the United States, Seattle won the PCHA title after finishing the 1916–17 regular season in first place with a 16–8 record. Meanwhile, Montreal advanced to the series after narrowly defeating the Ottawa Senators, 7–6. The games of the Final were played at the Seattle Ice Arena, games one and three were played under PCHA seven-man rules, games two and four were played under NHA six-man rules. Bernie Morris scored 14 of Seattles 23 total goals for the series, future Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Hap Holmes recorded a 2.90 goals-against average for the Mets. Game one In game one, Didier Pitre scored four goals as he led the Canadiens to an 8–4 victory, Pitre opened the scoring in the third minute before Morris tied it four minutes later. Jack Laviolette scored twenty seconds later to put the Canadiens ahead, con Corbeau and Newsy Lalonde scored in the second to put the Canadiens ahead 5–1 after two periods. In the third, Morris and Frank Foyston scored to bring Seattle within two goals, before Pitre scored again, Morris scored to make it 6–4 before Pitre and Corbeau scored to make the final score 8–4. Game two Seattle tied the series with a convincing win played under NHA hockey rules, Morris opened the scoring at nine minutes of the first period. Wilson scored to make it 2–0 for Seattle after the first period, Morris and Foyston scored in the second to put Seattle up 4–0 after two periods. Frank Foyston then scored twice in the period to complete his hat trick. Seattle then played defensively but Tommy Smith scored in the minutes for the Canadiens to spoil the shutout. Frustration boiled over at the start of the period with a fight between Roy Rickey and Billy Coutu before Harry Mummery jumped into the fray. Game three The game was played at a fast clip with no goals before Morris scored after ten minutes, montreals goaltender Georges Vézina made several big saves in the second to hold Seattle off from scoring. Coutu and Rickey had their third fight of the series and Coutu was given a twenty-minute penalty, the Canadiens held off Seattle in an ensuing power play to end the second with Seattle holding a one-goal lead. In the third, Foyston scored after five minutes and Morris scored a pair of goals to give Seattle a 4–0 lead. Game four In an individual rush, Morris put the Mets ahead early in the first period, the Canadiens tried to fight back, but were stymied by the defences of Seattle. Seattle scored three times in the period to put the game out of reach
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George Kennedy (sports promoter)
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George Washington Kendall, known professionally as George Kennedy, was a Canadian sports promoter best known as the owner of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team from 1910 to 1921. Kennedy was a wrestler himself and after the end of his career turned to wrestling promotion. Kendall along with investors, formed the Club Athletique Canadien. At the time of his parents marriage, the Catholic Church would only recognize it if her non-Catholic spouse agreed to raise the children in the Catholic faith, as such, George Kendall was educated at the High School of Montreal and then attended the Saint-Laurent College. In 1907, Kendall married Myrtle Agnes Pagels and they had two daughters, one who died before the age of one. While still in his teens, George Kendall embarked on a career as a wrestler, because such activities were something his family frowned upon, he wrestled using the name George Kennedy. In 1908, Kendall and Gadbois intended to get into the sport of ice hockey and they attempted to purchase the Montreal Wanderers, but were unsuccessful. The formation of the National Hockey Association saw the formation of the Les Canadiens team, in October 1910, Kendall contacted Frank Calder, then the Montreal Herald sports editor, and announced that he wanted an NHA franchise, intending to purchase the Canadiens. If rejected, he would go to court to enforce his rights to the name, the NHA was receptive to Kendall, and on November 12,1910 he paid J. Ambrose OBrien $7,500 and took over the Canadiens organization. A hockey club was part of Kendalls operations. In 1915, Kendall purchased the rights to distribute the film of the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in which Jess Willard dethroned champion Jack Johnson, in 1916, Kendalls hockey team won its first Stanley Cup, but a fire in May destroyed the gymnasium. The loss of the club and the failure of the Montreal Canadians professional lacrosse club forced an end to the CAC. A new organization, the Club de Hockey Canadien, was formed, its principal asset the hockey team, in 1917, Kendall was instrumental in the forming of the National Hockey League. Kendall, along with the owners of the Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs was fed up with the disagreements with the Toronto franchise owner, Eddie Livingstone. The group, a majority of the directors of the NHA, voted to suspend the operations of the NHA, the new league, except for its name, was the same league, having adopted the constitution, trophy and playing rules of the NHA. The suspension of the NHA and the formation of the NHL was intended to be only for a single year, the NHAs championship trophy, the OBrien Cup, which the Canadiens had won in 1917, would remain in the care of Kennedy until his death in 1921. Just before the 1918–19 season Kendall and the other NHL owners, met without Livingstone and that same season, Kendalls Canadiens won the championship of the NHL and travelled to Seattle, Washington to play off for the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals. Kendall, along with most of the Canadiens players, became ill with the Spanish flu and was hospitalized, the series itself was cancelled and Joe Hall of the Canadiens died of the illness
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O'Brien Trophy (ice hockey)
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It was originally donated to the NHA by Canadian Senator M. J. OBrien in honour of his son, Ambrose OBrien. The Cup was fabricated using silver from an OBrien mine, the Cup has been awarded under four definitions. From 1910 through 1917, it was awarded to the NHA champion, in 1921, the Cup was transferred to the NHL and awarded to the NHL champion until 1927. From 1928 until 1938, it was awarded to the Canadian Division champion, starting with the 1938–39 season, it was awarded to the NHL playoff runner-up. In 1950, the Cup was retired and has not been awarded since, in total, the Cup has been awarded in 41 seasons to twelve different teams. The Cup is now in the collection of the Hockey Hall of Fame, the Cup was originally to be given to the NHAs championship team. Made entirely from silver from the OBrien mine, the value was estimated at CDN $600. Like the Stanley Cup, trustees were named for the trophy and these were NHA executives Harry Trihey, Emmett Quinn and T. Yates Foster. Later, Stanley Cup trustee William Foran would become the trustee of the OBrien Cup. On December 2,1911, the NHA officially designated the trophy as the championship trophy. When the NHA was suspended in 1917, the Cup was held by the Montreal Canadiens and it remained in their care until 1921. In November 1921, it was announced that the Cup would be given over to the National Hockey League to be awarded annually to the NHL champions, NHL president Frank Calder arranged with Ambrose OBrien a new deed of gift. The Cup, which Calder had secured following the death of Montreal President George Kennedy, was presented to the NHL champion Ottawa Senators. In 1925, the NHL inaugurated the Prince of Wales Trophy and it would be awarded under this definition until the end of the 1937–38 season. The 1938–39 NHL season saw the NHL move back to a single division, the Cup was not formally awarded from 1939 to 1943 and it would not be until 1944 that the winning teams from that period were inscribed on the trophy. At the end of the 1949–50 NHL season the trophy was retired and has not been awarded since. It is now in the collection of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, the Montreal Canadiens have won it the most, having won the Cup eleven times. The Toronto Maple Leafs have won it the second most, a total of eight times, six as the Maple Leafs, once as the St. Patricks, the Detroit Red Wings have won the Cup the most times of any American team, having won it five times
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Odie Cleghorn
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James Ogilvie Odie Cleghorn was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, linesman and referee. His brother Sprague Cleghorn also played ice hockey and the two played several seasons together. Cleghorn played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and he won a Stanley Cup in 1924 with Montreal. Cleghorn was also a coach of the Pirates and it was during the 1925–26 season that he created the idea of set lines. He would play three set lines that would rotate, before this, the players would only rest when needed. Odie Cleghorns brother Sprague Cleghorn died of injuries following a car accident, just a few hours before Spragues July 14,1956 funeral, Odie Cleghorn, was found in his bed, dead of heart failure, perhaps induced by the stress of the loss of his brother. Odie Cleghorns career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
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Cy Denneny
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His brother Corbett Denneny also played in the NHL. Cy Denneny was born in Farrans Point, Ontario, near Cornwall and he was the son of James Israel Denneny who was a top lacrosse player in the late 19th century and was descended from the Dennenys of County Monaghan, Ireland. Denneny played senior hockey in Cornwall, starting with the Cornwall Sons of England of the Lower Ottawa Valley hockey league in 1909–10 and his professional playing career began with the Toronto Ontarios/Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association in 1914. He had tried out for the Montreal Canadiens in 1912 but failed to make the team and he was traded to the Ottawa Senators in 1916 and he would play with the Senators until 1928. He was member of four Senators Stanley Cup-winning teams, in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927, with the Senators during the 1917–18 season, Denneny set an NHL record by opening the season with four straight multi-goal games. Though the record still stands, it was tied in 2013 by San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau, Denneny was sold to Boston in 1928, where he would be the playing-coach of the Bruins 1929 Stanley Cup-winner. In 1929, Denneny retired to become an NHL on-ice official, in 1932, he re-joined the Senators as head coach, but the team was in decline due to financial difficulties which forced management to sell top players in order to survive. The team finished last and Denneny was not retained as coach, Denneny was one of the top scorers in the NHL from 1917 through 1925. While leading the league in scoring during the 1923–24 NHL season, he did so by recording 22 goals and one assist for a total of 23 points, when he retired, he was the all-time top scorer in NHL history. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959, in 1998, he was ranked number 62 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. He was the first and remains the fastest player in NHL history to score 200 goals. During a six-week span in the 1920–21 NHL season, Cy and his brother Corbett, despite not being a swift skater, Denneny had one of the most deceptive and accurate shots in the league, which enabled him to achieve his scoring feats so rapidly. He was one of the first known players to use opposing defencemen as screens, Denneny was also one of the very first players to use a curved blade, which he used to take high-rising shots as well as sinkers that would fool goaltenders. He was a physical player who often acted as a bodyguard for his more passive linemates, Jack Darragh. His first wife Melvina died and Denneny remarried and he was the father of two daughters with his second wife Isobel. After Denneny retired from hockey, he worked for the Canadian federal government and he retired from civil service in 1959. He died on September 10,1970 and is buried in Ottawas Pinecrest Cemetery
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Didier Pitre
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Joseph George Didier Cannonball Pitre was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. One of the first players to join the Montreal Canadiens, Pitres French-Canadian heritage helped give his line-mates the nickname the Flying Frenchmen, a prolific scorer, Pitre helped the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the first time in 1916. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963 and he was the uncle of Vic Desjardins, a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. Didier Pitres first major league was in an early IHL playing with the Michigan Soo Indians. He joined the Soo team in 1904, by 1905/06, he was the already the top scorer in the league scoring 41 goals in 22 games played. Pitre was on the IHL all-star first team that year in 1906, the next season, he left as a free agent and played with the Montreal Shamrocks in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association. He lasted only one year before leaving to play with the Edmonton Eskimos and he stayed three games with the Eskimos before jumping contract and coming back to eastern Canada where he played with the Renfrew Creamery Kings for the remainder of 1908. He joined the Montreal Canadiens in 1909 and he stayed for four years, before leaving for the west again. He spent a year playing with the Vancouver Millionaires, Pitre returned to Montreal the next year. In 1916, Pitre led the National Hockey Association in regular season assists and points and he scored 24 goals,15 assists for 39 points. He also helped lead the Canadiens to their first ever Stanley Cup and he led the playoffs in goals as well. In the 1919 Stanley Cup playoffs, which were never completed due to the influenza epidemic and he remained with Montreal through the formation of the NHL and into 1923. Pitre played essentially his entire career as a forward, at age 38, however, Pitre for the first time regularly played as a defenceman. He played defence for his two seasons before retiring. Pitre was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963 and his nephew, Vic Desjardins, would also play in the NHL and would be inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. Didier Pitre was also a member of the line called The Flying Frenchmen alongside of Jack Laviolette. He died July 29,1934 as a result of acute indigestion, as was customary of the time period, heart attacks were often mistakenly diagnosed as indigestion. Pitre likely died as a result of a heart attack
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Alf Skinner
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Alfred Dutch Skinner was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. He won the Stanley Cup hockey championship in 1918 with the Toronto Arenas of the National Hockey League, Skinner played junior hockey for the Toronto Argonauts and the Parkdale Canoe Club and senior hockey with the Toronto Rowing Club. He turned professional in 1914 with the Toronto Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association, after one season, the team evolved into the Toronto Blueshirts. During the 1916–17 season, the suspended operations of the Blueshirts. With the creation of the National Hockey League in 1917, Skinner returned to Toronto and played for the Stanley Cup-winning Toronto club, Skinner was the star of the Cup championships, scoring eight goals in five games. The team became the Toronto Arenas in 1918, in 1919, Skinner went west to play for Vancouver in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. The team unsuccessfully challenged for the Stanley Cup in 1921 and 1922, the 1920–21 season was Skinners best, when he scored 20 goals in 24 games. When the PCHA merged with the Western Canada Hockey League in 1924 and he was traded during the season to the Montreal Maroons and finished the year with just one goal in 27 games. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates to start the 1925–26 season, in 1926–27, Skinner played in the minor professional American Hockey Association for the Duluth Hornets. For the next two seasons, he was player-coach for Kitchener in the Canadian Professional Hockey League, when that league became the International Hockey League in 1929, Skinner became player-coach for the Guelph Maple Leafs in the new Canadian Professional Hockey League. He led the team to the championship in the only year of operations. He retired as a player in 1930, outside of hockey, Skinner was an employee of the City of Toronto and served a term as president of the Spadina Mens Progressive Conservative Association. He died at age 67 at his home and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Alf Skinners career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Alf Skinners biography at Legends of Hockey
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Reg Noble
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He was a three-time winner of the Stanley Cup, with Toronto and Montreal and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962. He was also the last active NHL player from both the NHLs inaugural season and the 1910s, Reg Noble started his professional career with the Toronto Blueshirts in their ill-fated season of 1916-17. The club was suspended by the league and he was assigned by the league to the Montreal Canadiens for the rest of the season, the following year, the new NHL assigned the Toronto franchise to the Toronto Arena owners and Noble signed with the team. The Blueshirts, despite the difficulty and several personnel changes, won the NHL title. Noble would stay with the franchise as it became the Arenas, the St. Pats would win the Stanley Cup again in 1922, a season where Noble was playing coach and captain. One season after joining the Maroons, the Maroons themselves would win the Stanley Cup in 1926, in 1927, he was traded to the new Detroit franchise in the NHL, then named the Falcons. He would play for the franchise for six season, eventually returning by trade to the Maroons in 1932–33 and he retired with 181 goals in 536 games in the NHA and NHL. He was inducted posthumously into the Hall of Fame in 1962, november 1,1922 - resigned as coach and captain of Toronto December 9,1924 - traded to Montreal Maroons by Toronto for $8,000. October 4,1927 - traded to Detroit by Montreal Maroons for $7,500, December 9,1932 - traded to Montreal Maroons by Detroit for John Gallagher. Source, NHL. com - Players, Reg Noble, Reg Nobles career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Reg Nobles biography at Legends of Hockey
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Harry Cameron
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Harold Hugh Cameron was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played professionally for the Toronto Blueshirts, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators, Toronto St. Pats and Montreal Canadiens. Cameron was considered one of the first great rushing and scoring defencemen and he scored 88 goals in 121 games in the NHL. He was also famous for his curved shot similar to that of todays curved hockey sticks, Cameron was the first player in NHL history to achieve what was later called a Gordie Howe hat trick, doing so on December 26,1917. In later years, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where he resided when he died in 1953 and he was inducted posthumously into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963. Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Cameron played with the Pembroke Debaters club from 1908 until 1911, the transaction is also famous as he demanded that his friend Frank Nighbor be signed also. He was picked up by the Montreal Wanderers for the balance of the season, in 1917–18 he returned to the Blueshirts, now a franchise in the National Hockey League, operated by the Toronto Arena Company in their Stanley Cup-winning season. In 1918–19, he was traded to the Ottawa Senators and returned from the Senators in the 1919–20 season to the Toronto team and he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in January 1920, but returned to Toronto in the following fall. The 1920–21 through 1922–23 seasons saw Cameron stay with the St. Pats, winning another Stanley Cup in 1922, the third for Toronto in the NHA and NHL. After the Stanley Cup win, Cameron was released, and he played three seasons as a coach for Saskatoon of the Western Hockey League where he switched to forward. He joined the Saskatoon team in 1932–33, playing nine games and he left the playing side of the game for good, and became the Saskatoon coach from 1934 through 1937. Added into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963, honoured Members, Hockey Hall of Fame. Players, the ultimate A-Z guide of everyone who has played in the NHL. Harry Camerons career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Harry Camerons biography at Legends of Hockey
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Ken Randall
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He was a two-time Stanley Cup Champion. Randall had a long and varied playing career at a time when the ice hockey world was changing. He was an accomplished scorer when playing forward, and was a good defencemen which he became later in his career. He played for the organization until 1923, as it changed from the Blueshirts to Arenas to St. Patricks and he became a full-time coach in 1928, but still had some playing time left in him, playing for the Oshawa Patricias when the OPHL was revived in 1930. Ken Randalls biography at Legends of Hockey Ken Randalls career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Ken Randall at Find a Grave
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Goals against average
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Goals Against Average is a statistic used in field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer and water polo that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender. GAA is analogous to a pitchers earned run average. In Japanese, the translation is used for both GAA and ERA, because of this. For ice hockey, it is calculated per game by dividing the number of goals against by the number of minutes played in the game then multiplied by 60. For a season, divide the number of goals against by the result of the total number of minutes played multiplied by 60. Alternatively, take the number of goals against, multiply that by 60 minutes, when calculating GAA, overtime goals and time on ice are included, whereas empty net and shootout goals are not. It is typically given to two decimal places, the top goaltenders in the National Hockey League currently have a GAA of about 1. 85-2.10, although the measure of a good GAA changes as different playing styles come and go. The top goaltenders in the National Lacrosse League however, currently have a GAA of about 10.00, at their best, elite NCAA water polo goalies have a GAA between 3.00 and 5.00
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Clint Benedict
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Clinton Stevenson Praying Benny Benedict was a Canadian professional Lacrosse goalie, ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Maroons. He played on four Stanley Cup-winning squads and he was the first goaltender in the National Hockey League to wear a face mask. He led league goaltenders in shutouts seven times over his professional career and he is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Benedict played for the Ottawa Stars Lacrosse Club, winning the City Championship in 1911 and he later played professionally with the Ottawa Capitals Lacrosse Club earning distinction for his tenacity under fire. This helped him immeasurably in his transition into professional hockey, Benedict was one of the first great goalies in professional hockey and a great innovator in the sport. He was the first goalie to drop to his knees to stop the puck along the ice, at the time and this earned him the nickname Praying Benny. The first rule change the NHL made legalized his playing style, Benedict joined the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association in the 1912–13 season. Although the Senators had at the time future Hall of Famer Percy LeSueur as their starting goaltender and he played one more season as backup to LeSueur and took over as starting goaltender in the 1914–15 season. He led the league in Goals Against Average that season and the two seasons to start his career. He played 12 seasons overall for the Senators, after winning three Stanley Cups with the Senators, his career changed in the 1923–24 season. Benedict developed a problem with drinking, which at first was kept secret by the Senators, Benedict occasionally played for the Senators while under the effects. In the playoffs, Benedict and the Senators played poorly and were quickly eliminated, management withheld some of his salary for his behaviour. Benedict sued the team in return and the Senators countersued, revealing in court documents the extent of Benedicts behaviour, once the Ottawa papers found out about the court case, the secret was out. The two sides quickly settled to minimize the publicity, Benedicts career with the Senators was finished. On October 20,1924, Benedict was traded along with Punch Broadbent to the expansion Montreal Maroons and it was a new lease on life for Benedict who played for six seasons with the Maroons. In 1926, he won another Stanley Cup with the Maroons, on January 7,1930, he was hit by a shot from Howie Morenz in the face, breaking the bridge of his nose. Benedict was out of action for six weeks and he returned on February 20,1930 against the New York Americans wearing the mask. He played with a mask for five games in total and according to Douglas Hunter and his last game wearing a mask was on March 4,1930 when he got hit in the face during a goal-mouth scramble
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Hap Holmes
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Harry George Hap Holmes was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. As a professional, Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times and he tied the record of his 1914 Stanley Cup winning Toronto Blueshirts teammate Jack Marshall, who also won Cups with four different teams. No other player has duplicated this record, Holmes won the first of his four Stanley Cups in 1914. For the 1917–18 season, Holmes ended up playing for the Torontos of the National Hockey League through a series of loans by other teams, Holmes won his third Stanley Cup in his only full season with the Torontos. After playing two games in the 1918-19 season for the Toronto Arenas, Holmes would be recalled by the Metropolitans, Holmes played for the Metropolitans for the next six seasons, until the team folded. In the 1924–25 season, Holmes joined the Victoria Cougars of the West Coast Hockey League, Holmes played for the Cougars for two seasons, winning the Stanley Cup for his fourth and last time. After the WCHL/WHL league folded, Holmes joined the Detroit Cougars of the NHL, playing with the Cougars for two seasons before retiring. Holmes was a stand-up style goaltender, later on in his career, Holmes wore a cap when in goal to protect his head from objects thrown by spectators, as it presented a tempting target to them. Holmes coached minor-league teams after his retirement, notably the Toronto Millionaires of the Canadian Professional Hockey League, Holmes died on June 27,1941, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida and was inducted posthumously into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972. Harry Hap Holmes, alternatively nicknamed Happy, started playing ice hockey as an amateur with the Parkdale Canoe Club in the Ontario Hockey Association in the 1908–09 season and he played with Parkdale for three seasons, for 11 regular season games and two playoff games. In his first season with the Parkdale Canoe Club, Holmes lost all three games in which he appeared, giving up 22 goals over that stretch, the following season, Holmes appeared in four games, winning and losing two games apiece. Over the 1909–10 season, Holmes gave up 26 goals, in 1910–11, his last season with the Parkdale Canoe Club, he appeared in four regular season games once more, winning three and losing one, while giving up only 12 goals over those games. In the playoffs, Holmes played two games, losing one and tying the other, surrendering nine goals, in the 1911–12 season, Holmes appeared in only one exhibition game, as the Toronto Blueshirts were unable to play due to the slow completion of their artificial ice. Holmes played a game for the Toronto Tecumsehs, conceding three goals in a victory, Holmes began his professional career playing for the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association in 1912–13. Holmes played with the Blueshirts for three seasons, in his first season with the Blueshirts, Holmes had a 6–7 record over 15 games with a shutout, and a 4.47 goals-against average. The Blueshirts ended up missing the playoffs, in the 1913–14 season, Holmes second season with the Blueshirts, he won the Stanley Cup for the first time. It was the first time a Toronto-based team won the Stanley Cup, the next season, the Blueshirts missed the playoffs, as Holmes had only eight victories over 20 games, ending up with a 4.18 goals-against average. In the 1915–16 season, Holmes signed with the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, in his first season with the Metropolitans, Holmes played 18 games
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Bert Lindsay
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Leslie Bertrand Lindsay was a professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey Association, Pacific Coast Hockey Association and National Hockey League. Born in West Garafraxa, Ontario, Bert Lindsay is the father of Hockey Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, Lindsay spent three years at McGill University where he played for the schools hockey team, the McGill Redmen. He turned professional in 1910 and played two seasons for Renfrew in the NHA, when the team disbanded he moved west and joined the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for three seasons before returning to the NHA with the Montreal Wanderers. Lindsay stayed with the Wanderers when they joined the National Hockey League in 1917, after the Westmount Arena, the home arena of the Wanderers, burned down in January 1918, Lindsay was left without a team for the remainder of the season. He signed with the Toronto Arenas for the 1918–19 NHL season, Bert Lindsays biography at Legends of Hockey Bert Lindsays career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
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Harry Hyland
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Harold Macarius Hyland was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Senators. Harry was one of the stars in the early years of professional hockey. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hyland first played ice hockey for the Montreal Shamrocks in 1908-09. He played for the Wanderers until they folded in 1918, except for one season where he joined the Pacific Coast Hockey Association New Westminster Royals, after the Wanderers folded, he joined the Ottawa Senators, where he was named playing coach. He once scored eight goals in a game against the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912-13 and he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962
