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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Max Kaminsky
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Max Kaminsky was clever center, excelling defensively while showing promise for offensive upside. The memory of Kaminsky, who died May 5th, 1961, is perpetuated by the Max Kaminsky Memorial Trophy, awarded yearly to the OHL (formerly the OHA) most gentlemanly player who also displays a high standard of playing ability. In 1969 t...
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Glenn Brydson
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Monday, April 4, 2011. In eight seasons right winger Glenn Brydson, known by his nickname of Swampy, played in 299 NHL contests with the Montreal Maroons, St. Louis Eagles, New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks. Brydson would play with Chicago through to 1938. He would bounce around the minor leagues during the war years. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Lionel Conacher
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Friday, April 25, 2008. The man they called "The Big Train" is truly a Canadian sporting legend. Lionel Conacher is arguably "Canada's Greatest Athlete" and is often referred to as "Canada's Jim Thorpe". As an amateur wrestler, Conacher won the Ontario championship in the 125 pound weight class as a 16 year old in 1916. According to The Ring Magazine, he ...
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Herb Cain
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Saturday, February 2, 2008. Coaches love a player who practices as hard as he plays. Herb Cain was an enthusiastic and gifted skater who fits the previous description. However his energetic approach almost killed him in one infamous practice in 1939. Cain was reportedly flying at about 20 miles per hour when he was clothes-lined by the rope. He quickly be...
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Harold Starr
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Thursday, June 23, 2011. Harold "Twinkle" Starr was one tough workhorse of the NHL for most of the dirty thirties. In fact, King Clancy once told famous sports writer Jim Coleman he may have been the toughest of his time. Here's how Coleman retold the story in the January 18th, 1943 edition of the Toronto Telegram:. By 1929 he filled his winters playing in th...
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Sprague Cleghorn
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Saturday, February 2, 2008. Sprague Cleghorn is one of the game's all time best defensemen, but also one of the most aggressive. Perhaps too aggressive. But his on ice greatness has been forever overshadowed by his on ice antics. He played the game with vigilante vigor. Cleghorn would go on to be the star and the early day Ottawa Senators. Teamed with nam...
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Sammy McManus
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Almost exactly one year later Sammy was traded to the NY Rangers for $ 10,000 in cash. The Rangers team had about the same depth on their roster as the Maroons, so they shipped Sammy to their minor league team in the Can-Am league, the Philadelphia Ramblers. He had a fine season with the Ramblers getting 40 points in 43 ga...The S...
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Clint Benedict
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Saturday, February 2, 2008. Yet you would be hard pressed to find a fan who knows who "Praying Bennie" was. Born in Ottawa in 1892, he played for 17 seasons, four of which were on Stanley Cup winning teams - three with the Ottawa Senators and one with the Montreal Maroons. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 160; © Blogger templates.
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Montreal Maroons Greatest Players: Dunc Munro
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Greatest Hockey Legends Home. Freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger! Why I created this website. Blog content © Joe Pelletier. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. This is Dunc Munro, courtesy of the rare 1924-25 Dominion Chocolate hockey card set. His card would have been pretty popular back then. After all, he had just led Canada to the gold medal in the 1924 Olympic Games at Chamonix, France. Upon his return to Canada his services became quite sought after by the professional ranks. The Mon...
