Byron Russell "Butch" McDonald was a Canadian ice hockey left winger who played 66 games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks between 1939 and 1945. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1934 to 1951, was spent in various minor leagues. He was born in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan.

Roy George "Gus" Giesebrecht was a professional ice hockey centre who played 135 games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings. During his career he accumulated 27 goals and 51 assists for a total 78 points. Giesebrecht was widely regarded by fellow players and NHL coaches as one of the most promising rookies in the league at the time. He scored a hat trick in the first period of the first game he saw on-ice action with the Red Wings, and scored the game-winning goal against the Chicago Black Hawks that advanced the Red Wings to the 1941 Stanley Cup Finals.