Mush March

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CanadaCanada  Mush March Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 18, 1908
place of birth Silton , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death January 9, 2002
Place of death Paxton , Illinois , USA
size 166 cm
Weight 70 kg
position Right wing
number # 5
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1925-1927 Regina Falcons
1927-1928 Regina Monarchs
1928-1945 Chicago Black Hawks

Harold "Mush" March (born October 18, 1908 in Silton , Saskatchewan , Canada , † January 9, 2002 in Paxton , Illinois , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player . Between 1928 and 1945 he played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . During this time he won the Stanley Cup with the Black Hawks in 1934 and 1938 .

Career

Harold March began his career with the Regina Falcons in 1925. Three years later he won the Memorial Cup in 1928 with the Regina Monarchs, now the Regina Pats . On November 29, 1928, the Chicago Black Hawks from the National Hockey League (NHL) took him under contract. March made the direct jump from junior hockey to the NHL, which was extremely unusual at the time. He was nicknamed "Mush" after a tiny comic figure of the same name from the Dick Tracy comic strip, which was popular at the time .

In the following 17 seasons Mush March completed a total of 804 games for the Black Hawks, scoring 410 points . On November 12, 1931, he scored the first goal in the newly built Maple Leaf Gardens , home of the Toronto Maple Leafs . He kept the puck with which he scored the goal for life and threw it in a solemn ceremony on February 12, 1999, when the last ice hockey game before the Maple Leafs moved to the Air Canada Center in the arena Ice.

In the 1933/34 NHL season he won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Black Hawks . March scored the decisive goal in overtime in the fourth game of the Stanley Cup final against the Detroit Red Wings . As for March, it was Chicago's first win of the cup. In 1937 he took part in the Howie Morenz Memorial Game on the side of the NHL All-Stars . 1938 followed another Stanley Cup win with the Black Hawks.

Mush March ended his career as a player at the end of the 1944/45 season . In 1988 he was inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame. He died on January 9, 2002 at the age of 93 from complications from pneumonia . Until his death, he was the oldest living NHL player for a long time.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
1928-29 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 35 3 3 6th 6th - - - - -
1929-30 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 43 8th 7th 15th 48 - - - - -
1930-31 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 44 11 6th 17th 36 9 3 1 4th 11
1931-32 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 12 10 22nd 59 2 0 0 0 2
1932-33 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 9 11 20th 38 - - - - -
1933-34 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 4th 13 17th 26th 8th 2 2 4th 6th
1934-35 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 13 17th 30th 48 2 0 0 0 0
1935-36 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 16 19th 35 42 2 2 3 5 0
1936-37 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 37 11 6th 17th 31 - - - - -
1937-38 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 41 11 17th 28 16 9 2 4th 6th 12
1938-39 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 46 10 11 21st 29 - - - - -
1939-40 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 45 9 14th 23 49 2 1 0 1 2
1940-41 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 44 8th 9 17th 16 4th 2 3 5 0
1941-42 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 6th 26th 32 22nd 3 0 2 2 4th
1942-43 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 50 7th 29 36 46 - - - - -
1943-44 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 10 27 37 16 4th 0 0 0 4th
1944-45 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 38 5 5 10 12 - - - - -
NHL overall 759 153 230 383 540 45 12 15th 27 41

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Steve Rosenbloom: Harold `Mush 'March, 93rd Chicago Tribune , January 10, 2002, accessed December 14, 2012 .
  2. ^ Entry on the website of the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 14, 2012 .
  3. ↑ "Mush" March dead at 93. CBC Sports , January 10, 2002, accessed December 14, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME March, Mush
ALTERNATIVE NAMES March, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Silton , Saskatchewan , Canada
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2002
Place of death Paxton , Illinois , USA