Posts About "Lester Patrick"

1940: The Best Team in New York Rangers History

August 13th, 2018 When the New York Rangers and 1940 are put together, there is a certain stigma that is attached to it. The feeling is not unlike that of the Boston Red Sox and 1918, or the Chicago Cubs and 1908. For the Rangers, 1940 was the year that they won their 3rd Stanley Cup in a twelve year period. However, it was also the last Stanley Cup that...

50 Years Ago in Hockey: Jack Adams Wins Patrick Trophy

December 21st, 2015 On a light news day, we look at some notes, tidbits and general happenings around the world of hockey. Jack Adams Wins New Lester Patrick Award Jack Adams, former general manager and coach of the Detroit Red Wings, and now the president of the Central Professional Hockey League, has been named the first recipient of the Lester Patrick...

50 Years Ago Today - News & Notes From Around Hockey

October 11th, 2014 News and notes from the hockey world on this day, fifty years ago. AHL season faces off The American Hockey League dropped the puck on their 1964-65 season last night with a pair of contests. In Baltimore, the visiting Quebec Aces blanked the Baltimore Clippers 4-0, while in Providence, RI, the Reds doubled the Pittsburgh...

Vancouver is Rich with Hockey

March 16th, 2013 If I had told someone in 1915 that hockey players would become millionaires, I would probably have been punched in the face, taken to the alley behind East Hastings Street to get more beatings, and then hung over the Capilano Suspension Bridge near North Vancouver. No one back then would ever think of anybody let alone a hockey player...

Book Review: The Lives of Conn Smythe

November 20th, 2011 The Lives of Conn Smythe: From the Battlefield to Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Icon's Story . By Kelly McParland. (2011, Toronto: FENN/McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. 370. $32.99. ISBN 978-0-7710-5683-3.) Once upon a time, there was a hockey club called the Toronto St. Patricks. Then Conn Smythe came...