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St. Nicholas Hockey Club: 1916 United States Army Air Service: Crashed while testing a repaired airplane. Scotty Davidson * [1] 24 1915 Right winger / defenceman: Toronto Blueshirts: 1914 Canadian Expeditionary Force: There are several conflicting versions of how he died. Michael Joseph Hayes [2] 24 1918 Forward: Colgate University: 1917 United ...
Anatoly Tarasov coaching a Soviet player in Tampere, Finland, in 1970.. Tarasov was inducted into the inaugural class of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997. [7] Having helped to build the Soviet hockey program from scratch, he became the first Soviet man to be enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto as a builder.
The 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships were the 14th World Championships and 25th European Championship was the first after the Second World War. It was held from 15 to 23 February 1947 at Štvanice Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Eight teams participated, but the competition was notably missing the reigning world champion, Canada. The ...
Due to World War II, 75 per cent of the amateurs signed by the NHL ended up in the armed services. [2] In April 1943, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association past-president George Dudley recommended that payments from the NHL for signing amateurs be deferred until players lost due to the wartime enlistments return to professional hockey. [3]
In the midst of World War II, the line enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a trio in 1942. [4] On February 10, 1942, their last game before reporting for duty, the line accounted for half of the 22 points in goals and assists that the Bruins accumulated on the way to an 8–1 victory over Montreal at the Boston Garden. The Kraut line ...
Ottawa RCAF Flyers at the 1948 Winter Olympics. In October 1947, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) announced that the senior ice hockey team from the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) base in Ottawa would represent the Canadian national team in ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics. [2]
Note: Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic ice hockey tournament was also considered the World Championship for that year. [22] Note: World War II forced cancellation of all tournaments from 1940 to 1946. Note: In 1972, a separate tournament was held both for the World Championships and the Winter Olympics for the first time.
In North America, professional hockey was continuing to grow, the National Hockey League (NHL), the largest professional hockey league in the world, was formed in 1917. [11] The European Championships were held for five consecutive years but were not held from 1915 to 1920 due to World War I . [ 12 ]