George Prodgers

George Prodgers
Date of birth	February 18, 1891
place of birth	London , Ontario , Canada
date of death	October 25, 1935
Place of death	London , Ontario , Canada
Nickname	Goldie
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1909-1910	London Wingers
1911	Waterloo Colts
1911-1912	Quebec Bulldogs
1912-1913	Victoria Aristocrats
1913-1914	Quebec Bulldogs
1914-1915	Montreal Wanderers
1915-1916	Canadiens de Montréal
1916-1917	Toronto 228th Battalion
1919-1920	Toronto St. Patricks
1920-1925	Hamilton Tigers
1926-1927	London Panthers

Samuel George "Goldie" Prodgers (born February 18, 1891 in London , Ontario ; † October 25, 1935 there ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 111 games for the Toronto St. Patrick and Hamilton Tigers in the National Hockey League on the position of the center has denied. In the service of the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912 and the Canadiens de Montréal four years later, he won the Stanley Cup twice .

Career

Prodgers played in the vicinity of his native London in the province of Ontario until 1910 before he switched to the professional field. He first played for the Waterloo Colts before joining the Quebec Bulldogs for the 1911/12 season. The weakest team in the league in the preseason qualified with Prodgers in its ranks for the games for the Stanley Cup , which the Bulldogs ultimately won. The striker left the Bulldogs after just a year and joined the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association . Here, too, the team improved significantly, but Prodgers returned to Quebec to join the Bulldogs.

After he had spent the 1913/14 season with the Bulldogs, they transferred him for a sum of money to league rivals Montreal Wanderers . From there he moved the next year to city rivals Canadiens de Montréal , with whom he celebrated his second Stanley Cup victory. Prodgers, who was actually a trained center forward, was repeatedly used on the defensive position during this time because of his good defensive behavior. After another season in the NHA with the Toronto 228th Battalion , Prodgers joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1917 and fought for two years in the First World War on the European continent.

After his return, Prodgers game rights were given to the Quebec Bulldogs, which were among the founding members of the National Hockey League and after a two-year break in the 1919/20 season participated in the game for the first time. The attacker refused to play for Quebec, was then suspended and given in December 1919 in exchange for Eddie Carpenter to the Canadiens de Montréal. For the Canadiens, however, Prodgers did not play a game, as he was transferred to the Toronto St. Patricks only a month later . In return, Harry Cameron moved to Montréal. The center was not at home with the St. Pats either, so the previous transfer was reversed in November 1920. In addition to Prodgers, Joe Matte also moved to Toronto. On the same day Toronto used its new acquisitions to send them with Jack Coughlin and on loan also Billy Coutu to the Hamilton Tigers . These went to Harry Mummery , Jack McDonald and Dave Ritchie .

When the Tigers arrived, Prodgers finally settled down and was active from 1920 for the next five seasons for the franchise that had emerged from the relocation of the Quebec Bulldogs. After a one-year break between 1925 and 1926, he completed a year of play with the London Panthers in the Canadian Professional Hockey League in the 1926/27 season before ending his active career and coaching the team the following year.

Prodgers died on October 25, 1935 at the age of 44 in the city of his birth, London, as a result of a heart attack .

Achievements and Awards

• 1912 Stanley Cup win with the Quebec Bulldogs
• 1916 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHA: Regular season	5	92	37	14th	51	196
NHA: playoffs	1	2	0	0	0	15th
NHL: Regular season	6th	111	63	29	92	39
NHL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Stanley Cup	2	6th	3	0	3	13

Web links

• George Prodgers at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• George Prodgers at eliteprospects.com (English)