Can anyone identify this player?
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Staniowski
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JMCx4
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Google Lens fails this challenge. But their translation of the hand-written note makes for some head scratching moments ... 
tinyzombies
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"(Let me?) remind you of the exploits that we have all accomplished in the world of hockey. -R. Ouimet" Or Guimet? Looks like Quebec Bulldogs colors, but it doesn't say QUEBEC across the front.Google Lens fails this challenge. But their translation of the hand-written note makes for some head scratching moments ...
JMCx4
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"Ouimet" seems the more likely surname, strictly (and loosely) based on current era hockey players with that last name. Either way, you are tantalizingly closer to the player ID. Maybe you could reach out to one or more HF members with SIHR contacts.
ETA: The Google Lens app translation was FAR more colourful than your logical interpretation ...
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MXD
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The picture does look quite a bit like Joe Malone. Who played for the Québec Bulldogs
Yozhik v tumane
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I like these challenges haha.
I don’t speak French (took classes 20 years ago, didn’t stick!), but trying things out in Google Translate, I got something like:
“te raipexer le exploits accomplie taie deux dans le monde au hockey”, translated into: “you will be the second most accomplished hockey player in the world”
Makes me wonder who number one is?
Not entirely convinced it’s Joe Malone. Nor the Quebec Bulldogs, are there other examples of that jersey for them?
I don’t speak French (took classes 20 years ago, didn’t stick!), but trying things out in Google Translate, I got something like:
“te raipexer le exploits accomplie taie deux dans le monde au hockey”, translated into: “you will be the second most accomplished hockey player in the world”
Makes me wonder who number one is?
Not entirely convinced it’s Joe Malone. Nor the Quebec Bulldogs, are there other examples of that jersey for them?
overpass
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te rappeler les exploits que nous avons accomplis tous deux dans le monde du hockey.
translates to what tinyzombies posted.
The note may be signed by M. Raphael Ouimet, sports editor of La Patrie (a daily newspaper in Montreal) in the 1900s and 1910s.
Yozhik v tumane
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Dammit, how could I miss that he’d provided that translation? I blame a lack of sleep and rushed readings through my work day.
Great find on who might have signed the note!
tinyzombies
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That's def not Joe Malone.
The corner of the photo is signed as well.
SOmething written at the top of the photo and crossed out as well maybe:
SOmething written at the top of the photo and crossed out as well maybe:
