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When we think of great hockey towns, we think of Ottawa, Montreal... and Renfrew? This week, the amazing story of the Renfrew Creamery Kings and the craziest season in the history of hockey!

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1910-11 C56 #26 Lester Patrick RC

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Sport: Hockey

Série: 1910-11 C56

Joueur: Lester Patrick

Équipe: Renfrew Creamery Kings

Attribution: RC

# Carte: 26

Compagnie: Imperial Tobbaco

Marque: C56

Statistiques du Joueur

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If you answered Lester Patrick you are correct.It’s not every day a 44-year-old coach comes off the bench and ends up playing goalie for his team in the Stanley Cup final, but that’s just what Lester Patrickdid for the Rangers back in 1928. Not only that, but he gave up only one goal, and the Rangers went on to defeat the Montreal…

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NY Times reporter’s account of fan behaviour at the 1928 Cup Final game in which Lester Patrick had to play in goal.

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Being a newbie to hockey is kinda super fun because you keep coming across these awesome stories. Emergency goalie stories always seem to be particularly fascinating (see also, the Leafs-Panthers game earlier this year), so I went to look this up, and:

On April 7, 1928, early in the second period of Game Two [of the Stanley Cup Finals], a shot by Nels Stewart of the Maroons caught Lorne Chabot on the eye, and the Rangers' netminder was forced from the contest. NHL teams of that era did not carry spare goalies. When Chabot was injured and deemed unable to continue, Lester Patrick, the team's coach and general manager, asked to use a borrowed goaltender as a replacement, a practice that was common at the time.

Patrick was made aware that Alex Connell, the goaltender for the Ottawa Senators, was in the Montreal Forum as a spectator. In an emergency, it was customary for the opposing team to permit the use of an available goaltender. Patrick asked Maroons' coach and general manager, Eddie Gerrard, for permission to use the Ottawa goalie, but was refused. Gerrard acknowledged that the Stanley Cup would almost certainly belong to the Maroons if New York could not replace Chabot with an adequate goaltender. Patrick then asked permission to use a minor league goalie named Hugh McCormick but that request was also denied.

Patrick returned to his team's dressing room and angrily explained the situation to the Rangers players. Looking for a solution, defenceman Leo Bourgault agreed to strap on the goalie pads and do what he could to block the puck. But Frank Boucher and Bill Cook, the team captain, stated that such a decision would leave the team short a valuable player, and suggested that Lester Patrick himself play goal, promising that the team would keep Maroons' skaters at bay and away from their net.

At the age of 44, Patrick hesitatingly agreed to play goal for the Rangers. There really were few other options. Chabot's equipment fit Patrick, and once he was dressed, he skated out onto the ice for a brief warm-up.

This was not Lester's first time playing goal. As a point player (defenceman) in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, he had occasionally gone into the net when his team's goaltender was penalized. [for fellow newbies: back then it had been common for goaltenders to serve their own penalties]. On one occasion, he had blocked a shot and proceeded to skate the length of the ice to score.

Patrick blocked 18 shots and let in one goal, which led to the game going into overtime:

In overtime, the Rangers intensified their defence. Any shots by the Maroons were easily blocked by Patrick. Then, at the seven-minute mark, Rangers' defenceman Ching Johnson passed the puck up to Frank Boucher, who took the pass in full stride, danced around the Maroons' defenceman and fired the puck past Clint Benedict in the Montreal goal. While traditionally the team would rush out to congratulate the game-winning goal scorer, this time, the Rangers poured over the boards and mobbed Lester Patrick. His team carried him off the ice on their shoulders.

The 2-1 overtime win tied the Stanley Cup final at one game apiece.

The next day, the NHL gave the Rangers permission to use Joe Miller, who had played with the New York Americans during the regular season. Miller played well for the Rangers, earning a shutout in Game Four, and the re-energized New York Rangers went on to win the best-of-five final three games to two, earning the Stanley Cup.

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Motherfucking sports.

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Footage of 1932-33 New York Rangers along with Foster Hewitt interviews of Lester Patrick, Ching Johnson, Bill and Bun Cook

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50 Years Ago Today - News & Notes From Around Hockey

50 Years Ago Today – News & Notes From Around Hockey

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 Hornets, 4-2.

Bill Sutherland led the way for the Aces with a pair of…

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