I don’t claim to have all the all-star teams, but here are the relevant teams I have found from the seasons that Moran was playing and eligible for, as well as interesting notes/commentary I have come across:
1903: Billy Nicholson was the pick on an all-Canada team from the Brantford Courier (Gazette, 20 March 1903)
1904: “The Quebec Hockey club champions of the C.A.H.L. may lose the services of Paddy Moran, the star goaler, this winter… Consequently, Paddy Moran has been approached, and the offer is very tempting. One hundred dollars per month is the salary dangled before the clever goal-tend. This amount is to be paid for playing the game only, and Paddy would be given a position in one of the big mines, the plants of which are run by electricity. As is known, Mr. Moran is an electrician, and his salary from this source would be in addition to his hockey money. It must be admitted that the inducement is a hard one to resist, and if any goal keeper is worth the figure, he is Paddy Moran. There may be as good men between the poles as Moran, but they are not in sight” ” (Winnipeg Tribune, 17 October 1904)
1905: An unnamed ‘Montreal Man’ listed an all-star team, with Moran in goal. The write-up- “For the thankless position of goalkeeper we have elected Mr. Moran, of Quebec, with his big shin-pads. These have stopped many a goal, but Moran is not particular whether he uses them or not. He frequently projects his face in the way of the puck, anything to stop it.” (Originally from the Toronto News, as published in the Gazette, 17 February 1905)
1905: The famous fan-voted all-star team. Moran “was almost the unanimous choice” (Montreal Star, 4 March 1905)
1906: The only team I think Moran would have been eligible for was the Winnipeg Free Press editor’s “selection of a world’s champion hockey team… showing no favoritism to either East or West”. Dutchy Morrison was the pick at goal.
1907: “Paddy Moran, he of the eagle-eye and world-wide reputation, will occupy his old position before the nets for Quebec. Moran, undoubtedly, has few equals in the business, and his work itself should be well worth seeing” (Ottawa Citizen, 4 January 1907)
1907: A “well-known Montreal newspaper man” selected LeSueur for his all star team, and an All-Canadian Hockey Team originally published by the Ottawa Free Press selected LeSueur as well.
1908: A fan-selected First and Second team all star list was selected at the half-time of one of the games. Paddy Moran was on the first team; “Paddy Moran, of Quebec, has a mortage on the net position. He is known as an aggressive goalkeeper, somewhat of a misnomer for a man in that position. Very few forwards will venture close to Moran, and it is only at the most hand-to-hand quarters he can be scored upon. Billy Nicholson, of Shamrocks, is the nearest approach to Moran”
1908: The Ottawa hockey team is after Paddy Moran, of Quebec, for goal” (Moncton Transcript, 2 October 1908)
1908: “The Ottawa club, by the way, is hurting to get together a team. Negotiations have practically been completed for the signing of Jack Winchester of Toronto to play goal. Winchester played last year with Winnipeg Maple Leafs and is considered quite up to the standard of Paddy Moran. Winchester was reported signed by Wanderers, but Ottawa got there first.” (The Province, 20 November 1908 Page 13)
1909: “Paddy Moran, of Quebec, stands out as the only goalkeeper banished during the season. Paddy was off three times, twice for a minute and once for three minutes” (Gazette, 13 March 1909)
1909: Harvey Pulford (an ex-teammate of LeSueur) selected LeSueur for his all-star team. I should note that 4 of the 7 players named were Ottawa players. The others were 2 Wanderers and Lester Patrick. I don’t know how much to weigh this one.
1909: “Lesueur was in his prime last winter and had no equal as a goal keeper, his work on the average being even better than that of Paddy Moran, the Quebec ‘phenom’” (Ottawa Citizen, 23 September 1909)
1909: “Percy Lesueur, former goal keeper of the Ottawa Stanley cup hockey team, is branching out in a new line. Lesueur who is now located at Haileybury, is getting out a book on hockey. It is already in the printer’s hands and the first copies will be on the street in a week or two. Lesueur’s book will contain illustrated articles by Al. Smith, Fred Taylor, Harvey Pulford, Marty Walsh, Russell Bowie and Paddy Moran on how their respective positions should be played, also the rules and history of the great winter game” (Ottawa Citizen, 28 September 1909)
1909: “Many people have often wondered why Paddy Moran, admitted to be the greatest hockey goalkeeper of the age, remained at Quebec so long. Year after year Quebec had a third class team, and year after year Moran was between the flags. For the past six seasons, in fact, Moran has been the greatest part of the Ancient Capital seven. Now he is with Art Ross’ All-Montreal team, drawing the fat salary of $2,000 for standing between the poles and letting the other teams shoot away at him”
1910: “If Quebec has ever produced anything upon which it can pride itself, it has been goal-tends in the hockey game. It is unnecessary to mention such stars as Frank Stocking and ‘Paddy’ Moran. Their well-earned fame is known from one end of the Dominion to the other” (Quebec Chronicle, 6 January 1910)
1910: “In Paddy Moran they have one who is supposed to be the greatest net custodian in the business” (Ottawa Citizen, 31 January 1910)
1910: “When Art Ross was signed by Haileybury, it is said that he received $4,000 for the eight weeks. Many laughed at the idea of paying such a sum for a hockey player, but when the circumstances are looked into, it will be seen that Haileybury was getting a large package of goods, for the money that they are paying out. Ross induced Paddy Moran to leave his comfortable diggings in Quebec, and hike for Montreal. He, however, signed a contract in which he agreed to pay Moran $2,000 for one season’s work” (Ottawa Journal, 9 February 1910)
1910: The Ottawa Free Press (notice how it is usually Ottawa papers giving LeSueur the all star nods?) provided an all-star team for the NHA. LeSueur got the nod in goal. 3 of the seven players were from Ottawa.
1911: “The Renfrew players also said that Bert Lindsay had played remarkable games at Quebec and Montreal. ‘Talk about Lesueur,’ cried Donald Smith, ‘Why even Paddy Moran took off his hat to Bert’” (Ottawa Citizen, 6 January 1911)
1911: Tommy Dunderdale picked an NHA all star team, LeSueur being his choice for goal. “On Dunderdale’s team would be found Percy Leseur guarding the nets. While the Ottawa goal tend has two great rivals in Riley Hern of the Wanderers and Paddy Moran of the Quebecs, Tommy’s choice undoubtedly will be a popular one” (Moncton Transcript, 13 March 1911). I’ll add that there are some odd selections, though perhaps that is my general ignorance of the 1911 league- Barney Holden at cover? Don Smith as one of the two selected centers?
1911: “Paddy Moran of Quebec, who is considered the best goaltender in the National Hockey League, will likely play goal for the Vancouver team. He has been offered a nice sum of money to come west and has just about made up his mind to accept” (The Province, 14 November 1911)
1911: “Paddy Moran, the Quebec goal tender, and one of the best ever to don pads, will soon be using a C.P.R. ticket” (Brantford Daily Expositor, 4 December 1911)
1912: “Paddy Moran is the ‘white hope’ of the Quebec outfit. He is the only good man that the Ancient Capital have been able to hang on to” (Calgary Herald, 4 January 1912)
1912: An article titled “Hugh Lehman One of the Greatest in Nets” from the Vancouver Daily World, 1 February 1912, published discussion about goalies from a fanning bee in Vancouver. As the title would suggest, Lehamn was mentioned, as was Paddy Moran ("Paddy Moran is perhaps the one best bet of the four and his wonderful record with the old Quebec team stamps him as the cleverest goal custodian of the East"), Percy LeSueur ("Percy Leseur is one of the greatest students of hockey. He is always trying to learn some new wrinkles and also always trying to teach others what he knows of the game"), Dutchy Morrison ("'Dutchy' Morrison made a great name for himself in O.H.A. hockey...He then game west and put Portage la Prairie on the hockey map. He was the most finished player that ever performed in that section"), and Whitey Merritt ("'Whitey' Merritt was the old Victoria goal tender... His work is still talked about by the old timers, who claim that the present generation has not seen his equal"). Riley Hern and Jack Winchester were noted as well ("Riley Hern and the late Jack Winchester must also be mentioned as great men between the nets").
1912: “‘I want to say just one word,’ said the man in the corner, ‘you make talk about your goalkeepers, but is there anyone who has anything on Paddy Moran, the veteran of the Quebec team. Goalers may come and goalers may go, but Paddy seems to go on forever. Quebec has produced a good many of them- not forgetting Percy LeSueur, of Ottawa- but Paddy is still my choice.’” (Quebec Chronicle, 6 February 1912)
1912: “Paddy Moran, the Quebec goal-tend is a native-born Quebec hockey player, and has been recognized as the best goal-tend playing the game” (Calgary Albertan, 18 March 1912)
1912: An article from the Victoria Daily Times (3 April) claims “"Paddy" Moran, the famous goaltender of the Stanley cup holders, and "Hughie" Lehman of the Westminster champions, are considered the best net-custodians in the game to-day, with the possible exception of "Percy" Leseur of the Ottawas”
1912: “Every time that a hockey goal tender is referred to there is sure to be some Easterner who will mention the name of Paddy Moran, the Quebec veteran, who is one of the greatest net guardians who ever stood between the poles… Working right, however, Moran is the equal of any net guardian that ever strapped on the pads. Short and broad, he presents a comical figure as he skates onto the ice. He is so big and pads himself to such an extent that he almost fills the poles during a game. He stops them every way, stick, feet, legs, hands and if necessary, he will interject his ace in the way of a flying hockey puck, regardless of the consequences. His ability to stop close in shots gives his team a great deal of confidence, and it was Paddy Moran, more than anyone else, who is directly responsible for Quebec’s victory in the national championship last winter” (Victoria Daily Times, 3 October 1912)
1912: “Manager ‘Petie’ Green of the Ottawas does not claim much for that club’s goal-minder. Hark to this from the Ottawa Citizen:- ‘Petie Green regards Percy Lesueur as the greatest of all goal-keepers. He has saved us a hundred times when a score would have meant the championship,’ said Green recently. ‘There’ll never be another Lesueur’...Y-e-s?- but where do Paddy Moran and Billy Hague fit. There are many who will TAKE ISSUE with this Lesueur dope. If you value your life, don’t repeat it in old ‘Kebec!’”(Evening Mail, 23 December 1912)
1913: “Billy Hague is a star in the meshes that’s sure. In landing him Socials bring to Halifax one of the top-notchers of the game, rated as only second to the great Paddy Moran, o the world’s champions” (Moncton Transcript, 2 January 1913)
1913: “‘Paddy’ Moran, than whom there is no more brilliant net guardian in hockey today” (Vancouver Daily World, 29 March 1913)
1913: “Paddy Moran, the Quebec goal tend, has lost nothing of his skill and, to judge by the games he has put up this year, he was never more reliable. Paddy is a native-born Quebecer and is recognized as the best goaler in the N.H.A. to-day” (Victoria Daily Times, 22 March 1913)
1913: Quoting the Montreal Herald- “Quebec is after Billy Hague, the star goaler of the Maritime Province last year, and it may be the champions seek a younger man than Paddy Moran to guard the nets. Hague played goal for Ottawa in 1906, when only eighteen years of age, and classes up with the best custodians in the country”. The Times-Transcript then commented- “If Quebec is successful in landing the Ottawa boy, it is the firm belief of many that ere the season finishes he will supplant Paddy Moran. Hague made his debut in pro. Hockey in 1906 and there is reason to believe that he would have been kept on only for the fact of the ‘hold’ that Percy LeSueur has on the Ottawa’s” (Times-Transcript, 22 November 1913)
1914: “Paddy Moran, who has quite a reputation as a net guardian in the hockey world…” (Toronto Star, 26 May 1914)
1915:”Moran again demonstrated that he is the king of all goal-keepers and on his season’s work there can be no doubt that Paddy has no superior in the nets in the game” (Quebec Chronicle, 25 February 1915)
1915: “Ottawa reports state Paddy Moran was the star. If anyone starts picking all-star teams in the N.H.A. on past season’s performance, the goaltend position belongs to Moran. Mr. Vezina is great, but Moran excelled even his own best performances of the best” (Quebec Chronicle, 4 March 1915)
1915: “The news that Paddy Moran has again signed up with Quebec will be welcomed by all hockey followers, not only in the city but over the circuit where he is a general favorite with the fans. Moran played some of the greatest hockey of his career last season and even the wonderful Vezina did not perform so consistently as Moran did. The Quebec club wouldn’t seem the same if Paddy’s familiar figure was not filling in space between the iron posts. As a well-known Montreal enthusiast remarked of the veteran goaltend, during a nerve-wracking game in which Quebec was striving desperately to hold a gone-goal lead on Montreal ice- ‘Moran seemed like a lion in a cage and the way he baffled all efforts of the opposing team to score seemed to take all the heart out of them, and if any man won the game for Quebec that night it was Moran’. But that is only one incident in Paddy’s long career and the men who have played for years in front of Moran can add their testimony to his prowess. Many a time the defence man has groaned with despair as one of the other side got through with but Paddy to beat only to have his spirits again revived by Moran’s brilliant save. Moran is no youngster but he seems to grow better with age and there is little room to doubt that Paddy will play the same reliable hockey this winter that he has always demonstrated” (Quebec Chronicle, 17 November 1915)
1916: “Most fans think Vezina of Canadiens the best goalkeeper in the N.H.A. If he is, Paddy Moran of Quebec is a mighty healthy rival” (Toronto Star, 3 January 1916)
1916: “But this season he [Vezina] has not one rival, but four. Lindsay, Clint Benedict, and the veterans Paddy Moran and Percy Lesuer have all pulled themselves up to a position at least equal to that of Vezina, and in the eyes o their most rabid supporters, at any rate, they are in some respects, superior” (Winnipeg Tribune, 18 March 1916)
1916: “Paddy Moran The veteran Quebec goaltender, who is generally conceded to be the greatest player in his position who has ever stopped a puck” (Victoria Daily Times, 2 November 1916)
1916: “From Quebec comes word that Paddy Moran, the veteran goalkeeper of the ancient capital’s hockey club, who has been playing senior hockey probably longer than any other man in the game to-day, is anxious to retire this season. If a deal in which Tommy Smith goes to Ottawa in exchange for Sammy Herber, the Ottawa goalie, goes through Moran will quit. He says, however, that he will turn out if necessary” (Victoria Daily Times, 24 November 1916)
1917: “The Quebec defence played too far out for him [Hebert], being used to Paddy Moran’s system. Paddy is the best in the business on the close shots, and therefore he always allowed the defence to play far out, but Hebert’s methods are different” (Quebec Chronicle, 22 January 1917)
1917: “Moran played goal for Quebec for about fifteen years and was one of the greatest that ever strapped on the pads. Last year he began to slip and was replaced towards the close of the season by Sammy Hebert, of Ottawa” (Calgary News Telegram, 3 December 1917)
1918: “We used to rave over Hughie Lehman, and that veteran is still good for many more seasons and will always be a star, ‘Happy’ Holmes was one of the game’s wonders, Vezina was invincible, while Paddy Moran, the Quebec veteran, was for fifteen years a puzzle to opposing forwards, but Fowler is now all the rage” (Calgary Herald, 18 January 1918)
1922: Frank Patrick, according to the 4 March edition of the Province, rejected the idea that then-present goalies were superior to the older goalies- "I regard our present goalies as wonderful players. Their work boarders on the sensational, but at the same time, in Percy Leseuer, old Ottawa goalie, Paddy Moran, of Quebec, and "Bouse" Hutton, of Ottawa, we had three of the greatest men in the nets, players every bit as good as the present-day performers. There we no greater players, past or present, than those men"
1923: Lester Patrick picked an all time All-Star team from retired players and chose Paddy Moran and Percy LeSueur.
1925: “Saskatoon comment on a recent Calgary-Saskatoon pro hockey game goes on to say: ‘George Hainsworth is still ‘our George’ in every sense of the word. Talk about George Vezina, Hughie Lemans, Paddy Morans, Clint Benedicts and all the rest, but Saskatoon is ready to back the former Kitchener amateur against the whole herd” (Waterloo Region Record, 26 February 1925)
1925 McLean Magazine Team: Vezina first team, LeSueur second team goalie, Benedict or Lehman third.
1933: “With such a great crowd of net minders, it is a wonderful tribute to thin out the boy who does his work for the Windy City club [Chuck Gardiner]. Roy Worters, George Hainsworth, Lorne Chabot and Alex Connell are very outstanding guardians, but all of them have to pass the bouquet to the western boy. Some of the oldtime players are comparing Gardiner to such former greats as Percy Leseur, Paddy Moran, Hughey Lehman, and Harry Holmes. All are careful not give him the same rating as Georges Vezina, who is conceded to be the greatest ever. It is no disgrace for the Hawk net minder to be classed behind Vezina, as the latter is the type that appears once in a generation” (Niagara Falls Review, 4 January 1933)
1934: “Though he played in an age when individualism was the hallmark of the game, hockey can boast of few more colorful figures than Paddy Moran, goaltender of the Quebec Bulldogs. The Quebec Irishman who guarded the nets for the ancient capital’s major team from 1901 until 1917 simply reeked with color for none ever played the game with so much zest and more loved to win and hated to lose than Paddy Moran. At his peak, he was perhaps the best goaler of his time, for when Paddy was ‘on’ his game, he was well nigh unbeatable. He was absolutely fearless in the nets. Of all the players who ever wore a Quebec uniform, Moran is perhaps the best loved by the home fans for he had a kindly spirit which his fiery outbursts in the heat of struggles very much belied. His greatest following was among the youngsters of Quebec City for Paddy epitomized to them all that was great in a hockey player. He was the idol of his day in the ancient capital” (Gazette, 24 February 1934)
1934: Russell Bowie, the greatest scorer of the era, picked Moran as “the hardest goaltender he ever had to beat”, claiming that “Some nights, Paddy was so good he was unbeatable” (Gazette, 5 April 1934).
1935: “Frank Stocking started his hockey career around 1894 and played until 1900, to be succeeded by Paddy Moran. The latter played until Quebec City dropped out of the N.H.A. in 1916, so that for a period of 20 years, the Ancient Capital was blessed with the best goaltending in the east” (Gazette, 8 March 1935)
1956: I’m generally not a fan of reviews of players this far removed from their career, so take this with a grain of salt, but- “Paddy played on in that game [after breaking a finger on a shot from Alf Smith] and subsequent ones without diminishing skill. Like Frank Stocking, he is remembered as one of the great goalies of yesteryear. They were different from the goalies of today. They couldn’t fall down, most of them were stick goalies, and they played for the most part in badly lighted rinks. Paddy was a clutch type like Turk Broda. In big games he was hard to beat” (Montreal Star, 25 February 1956)
1961: Like I mentioned, I don’t like/value reports that are so far removed from a player’s career, but this one was amusing (and isn’t something that proves/disproves Moran’s greatness, as it is just a fun story). Newsy Lalonde picked an “all-time, meanest, toughest team” in 1961. Paddy Moran was in goal”, with Lalonde reportedly writing “Paddy was in a class by himself when it came to chopping toes of opposing forwards who came within range, and in those days the skate toes weren’t so well padded. But his pet skill was squirting tobacco in your eye” (Ottawa Citizen, 8 April 1961)