rmartin65
Registered User
- Apr 7, 2011
- 2,834
- 2,392
Early hockey, with all the different leagues and with how hard it was for people to see more than just the goalies in their specific region, are a mess, haha.
From the Winnipeg Tribune, 29 February 1944 Page 14- Herb Manning had a column called One Man's Opinion. A Mr. L.F. Earl wrote into the column, an excerpt is quoted below:
Manning concluded the piece by stating that "Hockey has had many greats, but for speed, elusiveness, speed and accuracy of shooting, and stamina, there was only one Phillips"
I tracked down the Larry Armstrong team (Winnipeg Tribune, 15 February 1944 page 12)-
Goal: Jack Winchester
Defense: Hod Stuart and Eddie Shore
Center: Dick Ivin
RW: Tommy Phillips
LW: Alf Smith
Armstrong also claimed that Dick Irvin "was the greatest product of Canadian hockey"
Comment: I'd flip the wings
Some neat observations and group of names come from (I think) Harry Scott in the Calgary Albertan, 25 February 1930 Page 6
To set the stage, apparently "Somebody has bobbed up with an output of ideas that includes Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons as the best goalie of all time and now the bags are off, all equal at the post with the loudest talker crossing the wire first"
I see a lot of the same discussions we are having all these years later
From the Winnipeg Tribune, 29 February 1944 Page 14- Herb Manning had a column called One Man's Opinion. A Mr. L.F. Earl wrote into the column, an excerpt is quoted below:
Larry Armstrong, so Herb Manning writes, also picked an all-time, all-star hockey team and gave Jack Winchester, who used to play with the Winnipeg Maple Leafs, the place in goals. I don't agree with that. Given my choice of all the puck-stoppers, it would be a toss-up between Dutchy Morrison and Charlie Gardiner
Manning concluded the piece by stating that "Hockey has had many greats, but for speed, elusiveness, speed and accuracy of shooting, and stamina, there was only one Phillips"
I tracked down the Larry Armstrong team (Winnipeg Tribune, 15 February 1944 page 12)-
Goal: Jack Winchester
Defense: Hod Stuart and Eddie Shore
Center: Dick Ivin
RW: Tommy Phillips
LW: Alf Smith
Armstrong also claimed that Dick Irvin "was the greatest product of Canadian hockey"
Comment: I'd flip the wings
Some neat observations and group of names come from (I think) Harry Scott in the Calgary Albertan, 25 February 1930 Page 6
To set the stage, apparently "Somebody has bobbed up with an output of ideas that includes Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons as the best goalie of all time and now the bags are off, all equal at the post with the loudest talker crossing the wire first"
But this goalie business! My, Oh my! Everybody has a different candidate and there's really no way, you know, to settle the argument. There is Tiny Thompson, George Hainsworth, Hal Winkler, the late George Vezina, Hainsworth, Worters, John Ross Roach, Fred Dulmage, Harry "Dutchy" Morrison, Benedict and Charley Quinn. They're all great. They all stop 'em and they all miss 'em and a lot depends on those two big guys who are standing in front of them, don't forget that"
The best goalie we ever say, and in fact played with, was George Vezina, who guarded the nets for the Montreal Canadiens for so many years. The games goalkeeper of 'em all was Fred Dulmage, formerly of Fort William. Dulmage never knew what it was to wear shin pads or a chest protector. The only protection he ever had was a magazine shoved under each stocking
Tiny Thompson or Worters appear to be the best of the present day next custodians. Of course, the former has by far the better defence in front of him
I see a lot of the same discussions we are having all these years later