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http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=18678… one of the smallest and most exciting goaltenders ever to backstop in the NHL…. When he entered the playoffs, however, he just kept getting stronger and more exciting between the pipes as he led his club past the Vancouver Millionaires in a close battle to claim the Stanley Cup. His rookie season marked the beginning of a 14-year run in the NHL, a lengthy career by the standards of his day. And during many of those seasons, he was a league leader in games played by a goaltender.
In all, Roach played his feisty brand of acrobatics for the St. Pats and later, the Maple Leafs for seven seasons. In 1928-29, he was traded to the New York Rangers where he led the league in games played for each of his four years on Broadway.
In the Motor City, he played solidly and by season's end missed winning the Vezina Trophy by only a fraction of a percentage point. To ease his sorrow, however, he was selected to the All-Star team.
http://rangers.nhl.com/team/app?page=HistoricalPlayerDetail&pkey=8450103&service=pageNHL LEADER
Most games played by a goaltender — 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32
Most minutes played by a goaltender — 1930-31 (2,760)
Most shutouts — 1932
Most playoff games played by a goaltender — 1929, 1932
Most playoff minutes played by a goaltender — 1929, 1932
Lowet playoff goals-against average — 1931
Most playoff shutouts — 1929, 1932
one of the most successful goalies in team history, setting records that still stand for the lowest goals-against average in a season and most shutouts in one season.
Roach was instrumental in taking the Rangers to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1929 and 1932.
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...ges?q=john+ross+roach&ndsp=18&um=1&hl=en&sa=NJohn Ross Roach was living proof of the theory, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." As a Detroit opponent with Toronto and the New York Rangers, Roach posted eight shutouts and a 1.70 goals-against average in 34 games. He once blocked 60 shots to preserve a 1-0 Rangers win over Detroit.
Those sort of performances led many hockey people to suggest Roach was the NHL's best goalie and few in Detroit would form an argument. The $5,000 used to purchase his contract from the Rangers was well spent. Roach posted 10 shutouts and his 25 wins were a club record, earning him selection to the NHL's First All-Star team. He was the first Detroit player to be placed on a post-season all-star unit.
He garnered the first playoff series win and first playoff shutout in team history, blanking the Maroons 2-0 at Montreal on March 25. Roach broke in with Toronto in 1921-22 and backstopped the St. Patricks to a Stanley Cup title as a rookie, defeating Jack Adams and the Vancouver Millionaires in the final. Though he stood 5-foot-5 and weighed just 130 pounds - earning him the nickname "Little Napoleon" - Roach was remarkably durable, missing only four games during his first 12 NHL campaigns. Once, in need of knee surgery, but with no other goalie available, Roach donned the pads for the Wings, basically playing on one leg, grabbing his crossbar with his glove hand at opportune moments to maintain his balance.
His 58 career shutouts rank Roach 12th on the NHL's all-time list.
Fast and wiry, Boon is credited with being the first player to use the poke-check.
http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080...?mem=p195201&type=Player&page=bio&list=#photoRich "Dickie" Boon excelled at a number of sports while growing up at the family homestead located on the present site of the Windsor Train Station in Montreal. In addition to hockey, he enjoyed speed skating in his early teens and won the 1892 Junior Amateur Championship. He also participated in water sports such as rowing and canoeing.
Boon began playing organized hockey in 1894 at the age of 16 with the "Young Crystals" at the old Crystal Rink in Montreal before moving on to the Monarch Hockey Club in 1897. In 1900 he joined the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association Junior Hockey Club and was promoted to the senior team (MAAA) the following year where he played the position of cover point, similar to today's defenseman.
Dickie Boon was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1952. He was also honoured as one of Montreal's outstanding sportsmen by the Sportsmen's Association of Montreal in July 1954.
http://www.azhockey.com/Ma.htm...considered to be a very tough player who excelled with his fine physical play. Very sound defensively
http://www.chidlovski.com/personal/1972/misc/cssrbiod.htmBy many accounts, one of the most reliable European defense players ever, extremely solid blueliner
http://ourhistory.canadiens.com/player/Jimmy-GardnerJimmy Gardner honed his hockey skills alongside Hall of Fame legend Dickie Boon, playing together in the streets of Montreal.
Over the course of his career, Gardner won four Stanley Cups, the first two in 1902 and 1903 with the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association team, and again in 1909 and 1910 with the Montreal Wanderers.
Between 1904 and 1907, he played in the original IHL, earning one Second Team All-Star selection in that time.
A talented left-winger, Gardner played two seasons with the Canadiens as a player-coach. He scored 19 points in 17 games from 1913 to 1915, a few years before the team joined the NHL.
Gardner was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962.
http://ourhistory.canadiens.com/season/1921-1922Cleghorn, Coutu and Corbeau who each stood at least 5-foot-10 and weighed in at over 190 pounds,
made the trio the first “Big Three” in Habs blue line history.
Liut was outstanding in his debut with St. Louis. His first two seasons saw him pile up 71 victories. In 1980-81, he was voted a runner-up to Wayne Gretzky for the Hart Trophy; he was selected as a First Team All-Star; and, he won the Lester B. Pearson Trophy as the league's MVP as determined by his peers.In 1985, Liut was traded to the Hartford Whalers where, in his second season, he led the league in shutouts with four. He also posted the league's best goals-against average in 1989-90.
He was a mainstay with the Rangers the following year and became a key member of their 1940 Stanley Cup team. Smith won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly play in 1938-39 as a Ranger and again in 1943-44 as a member of the Chicago Black Hawks, and totaled a mere 24 penalty minutes in 483 regular season games. He played in the NHL for eleven years and was not signaled off for a penalty in four of those seasons.In 1943-44, Smith set an NHL record by recording 49 assists in a season while playing on a line with future Hall of Famers Bill Mosienko and Doug Bentley. The line set an NHL scoring record that season with 219 total points. Smith became the first player to score into an empty net after the league had revised the rules to allow teams to pull their goalie, and he shares the NHL record for most goals in a period with four, set on March 4, 1945, against Montreal.
Defenceman Gilles Marotte played over 800 NHL games for five different clubs in the 1960s and '70s. He was a fine playmaker who could work the point on the power play and handle the rough going in his own end.
Mike Milbury was a rugged defenceman played over 750 games for the Boston Bruins in the 1970s and '80s. His defensive zone coverage was exemplary and he used an assortment of tactics to thwart opposition forwards.