Ching Johnson

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CanadaCanada  Ching Johnson Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1958
Date of birth December 7, 1897 or 1898
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
date of death June 16, 1979
Place of death Silver Spring , Maryland , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1920 Winnipeg Monarchs
1920-1923 Eveleth Rangers
1923-1924 Minneapolis Millers
1924-1925 Minneapolis Rockets
1925-1926 Minneapolis Millers
1926-1937 New York Rangers
1937-1938 New York Americans
1938-1940 Minneapolis Millers

Ivan Wilfred "Ching" Johnson (born December 7, 1897 or 1898 in Winnipeg , Manitoba , † June 16, 1979 in Silver Spring , Maryland ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach . The defender played almost 500 games for the New York Rangers and the New York Americans in the National Hockey League between 1926 and 1938 . During this time he won the Stanley Cup twice with the Rangers and was appointed to the NHL All-Star Team four times . In 1958 he was honored with the admission to the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Beginnings

Ching Johnson was born in Winnipeg on December 7, 1897, according to other sources on the same day in 1898. With organized ice hockey began in 1919 after serving as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War had served. In the 1919/20 season he played for the Winnipeg Monarchs in his home town while he worked in a power company. The Canadian then moved to the United States , where he was active in the state of Minnesota for the Eveleth Rangers , the Minneapolis Rockets and the Minneapolis Millers in semi-professional leagues. In Minneapolis, Johnson was discovered in 1926 together with Taffy Abel , his partner in the defense, by Conn Smythe , who at that time was looking for players for the newly formed New York Rangers from the National Hockey League (NHL). As a result, both signed their first professional contract in New York and moved to the 1926/27 season, the Rangers' debut season, in the NHL.

New York Rangers

Johnson and the New York Rangers established themselves promptly in the NHL, so the team reached first place in the American Division in its first season . The following year, the Broadway Blueshirts won their first Stanley Cup in the 1928 playoffs , with a 3-2 win in the final against the Montreal Maroons . The defender stood out, as in his entire NHL career, above all with physically stressed ice hockey and advanced to the public's favorite in Madison Square Garden with hard checks . In 1931 he was elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team , 1932 and 1933 to the NHL First All-Star Team , while he was able to win his second Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1933 . In addition, the Canadian took second place in the vote for the Most Valuable Player of the 1931/32 season, only Howie Morenz received more votes and thus the Hart Trophy . In 1934 he was called back to the NHL Second All-Star Team.

Overall, Johnson was active in eleven seasons for the Rangers from 1926 to 1937 and played over 400 games in that time. He also collected 826 more penalty minutes than any other player in New York, a record that was only exceeded by Lou Fontinato in the early 1960s .

End of career

After the 1936/37 season, Johnson was dismissed from the Rangers due to his advanced age and subsequently moved to the New York Americans within the city . There he spent his last NHL season, at the end of which he ended his professional career after a total of 496 NHL games. He then returned to the Minneapolis Millers and let his active career fade away here in two seasons in the American Hockey Association , where he was already active as a coach of the team. He then worked briefly as a coach in California and with the Washington Lions , but did not pursue this career as well as that of the referee . He acted as linesman in the Eastern Hockey League and in this role checked a player in a game, an incident that he commented on after the game with the words "Instinct, I guess."

In 1958 Johnson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame . He settled in Silver Spring , Maryland , and died there on June 16, 1979.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1933 Stanley Cup win with the New York Rangers
  • 1933 NHL First All-Star Team
  • 1934 NHL Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1919/20 Winnipeg Monarchs WSrHL 7th 6th 3 9 10 - - - - -
1920/21 Eveleth Rangers USAHA Statistics not available
1921/22 Eveleth Rangers USAHA Statistics not available
1922/23 Eveleth Rangers USAHA 20th 4th 0 4th 26th - - - - -
1923/24 Minneapolis Millers USAHA 20th 9 3 12 34 - - - - -
1924/25 Minneapolis Rockets USAHA 40 8th 0 8th 43 - - - - -
1925/26 Minneapolis Millers CHL 38 14th 5 19th 92 3 2 0 2 6th
1926/27 New York Rangers NHL 27 3 2 5 68 2 0 0 0 8th
1927/28 New York Rangers NHL 42 10 6th 16 146 9 1 1 2 46
1928/29 New York Rangers NHL 8th 0 0 0 18th 6th 0 0 0 26th
1929/30 New York Rangers NHL 30th 3 3 6th 84 4th 0 0 0 14th
1930/31 New York Rangers NHL 44 2 6th 8th 79 4th 1 0 1 10
1931/32 New York Rangers NHL 47 3 10 13 106 7th 2 0 2 24
1932/33 New York Rangers NHL 48 8th 9 17th 127 8th 1 0 1 12
1933/34 New York Rangers NHL 48 2 6th 8th 86 2 0 0 0 4th
1934/35 New York Rangers NHL 29 2 3 5 34 3 0 0 0 2
1935/36 New York Rangers NHL 47 5 3 8th 58 - - - - -
1936/37 New York Rangers NHL 35 0 0 0 20th 9 0 1 1 4th
1937/38 New York Americans NHL 31 0 0 0 10 6th 0 0 0 2
1938/39 Minneapolis Millers AHA 47 2 9 11 60 4th 0 2 2 0
1939/40 Minneapolis Millers AHA 48 0 4th 4th 26th 3 0 0 0 2
NHL overall 436 38 48 86 836 60 5 2 7th 152

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Nickname

Because of his first name, Johnson was first nicknamed "Ivan The Terrible" (Eng: " Ivan the Terrible "). In view of his slightly oriental appearance, however, the nickname "Ching" established itself, so fans chanted "Ching, Ching Chinaman" when he was on the ice. “Ching” (or in another transcription also Cheng or Zheng ) is simply a common Chinese name in this context .

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Who's Who In Hockey. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2003, pp. 203, ISBN 978-0-7407-1904-2 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Deane McGowen: Ching Johnson, Star for Rangers In the 20's and 30's, Is Dead at 81.nytimes.com, July 22, 1979, accessed April 6, 2018 .
  3. ^ Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Fischlers' Ice Hockey Encyclopedia. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1979, p. 295, ISBN 0-690-01856-8 .
  4. ↑ Barber, p. 49
  5. ^ Laurel Zeisler: Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey. The Scarecrow Press, 2013, p. 168, ISBN 978-1-4422-5532-6 .
  6. ^ Dan Diamond (Ed.): Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 1998, pp. 731, ISBN 0-8362-7114-9 .
  7. ^ Dan Diamond (Ed.): Total NHL: The ultimate source on the National Hockey League. Triumph Books, 2003, p. 624, ISBN 978-1-57243-604-6 .
  8. ↑ Barber, p. 50
  9. ↑ Barber, p. 48
  10. ↑ John Kreiser, Lou Friedman: The New York Rangers: Broadway's Longest Running Hit. Sagamore Publishing, Champaign, 1996, p. 26, ISBN 1-57167-041-6 .
  11. ^ John Halligan: The New York Rangers. Arcadia Publishing , Charleston, 2003, p. 20, ISBN 978-1-4396-2878-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Ching
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Ivan Wilfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1897 or 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1979
Place of death Silver Spring , Maryland , United States