Frank Finnigan

Frank Finnigan
Date of birth	July 9, 1903
place of birth	Shawville , Quebec , Canada
date of death	December 25, 1991
Place of death	Shawville , Quebec , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1921-1922	University of Ottawa
1922-1923	Ottawa Collegiate
1923-1924	Ottawa Montagnards
1924-1931	Ottawa Senators
1931-1932	Toronto Maple Leafs
1932-1934	Ottawa Senators
1934-1935	St. Louis Eagles
1935-1937	Toronto Maple Leafs
1939-1940	Ottawa RCAF Flyers
1940-1941	Toronto RCAF
1944-1945	Ottawa Depot # 17

Frank Arthur Finnigan (born July 9, 1903 in Shawville , Québec , † December 25, 1991 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player who was active in the National Hockey League .

Career

Frank Finnigan began playing ice hockey at the University of Ottawa and then played for the Ottawa Collegiate and Ottawa Montagnards. In February 1924 he received a contract with the Ottawa Senators in the NHL . He played for the Senators until 1931 and won the Stanley Cup in 1927 . He then moved to the Toronto Maple Leafs , but returned to the Senators after just a year.

Due to financial problems, the Senators had to be relocated to St. Louis in the summer of 1934 . Finnigan scored the last goal for the team. He moved to St. Louis and began the 1934/35 season with the St. Louis Eagles , but moved during the season to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he played two and a half years. He then played in some lower-tier leagues before ending his career.

After more than 50 years, Finnigan was in the spotlight again in the early 1990s. The NHL decided to increase the league and the entrepreneur Bruce Firestone tried again to bring an NHL franchise to Ottawa. Finnigan was to support this endeavor as the last surviving member of the Stanley Cup team of the Senators of 1927. On December 16, 1991, Firestone was accepted by the NHL and the new Ottawa Senators franchise was established.

Finnigan died nine days later at the age of 88.

On October 8, 1992, the team played its first game in the NHL. This was taken as an opportunity to posthumously honor Frank Finnigan. In a solemn ceremony before the game, the Senators hung a banner with Finnigan's number 8 on the ceiling, which is no longer given to any player on the team. His son, Frank Finnigan Jr., threw the puck in for the first face-off in the game.

Frank Finnigan's brother Eddie was also a player in the NHL.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	14th	553	115	88	203	407
Playoffs	10	38	6th	9	15th	22nd

Achievements and Awards

• Stanley Cup 1927
• NHL All-Star Game 1934

Web links

• Frank Finnigan at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Frank Finnigan at hockeydb.com (English)