Jack Arbor

Jack Arbor
Date of birth	March 7, 1898
place of birth	Waubaushene , Ontario , Canada
date of death	September 24, 1973
size	173 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1921-1923	Calgary Tigers
1923-1924	Seattle Metropolitans
1924-1925	Calgary Tigers
1926-1927	Detroit Cougars
1927-1928	Detroit Olympics
1928	Toronto Maple Leafs
1929-1933	Windsor Bulldogs
1933-1934	Seattle Seahawks
1934-1936	Portland Buckaroos
1936-1938	Spokane Clippers

Jack Albert Arbor (born March 7, 1898 in Waubaushene , Ontario , † September 24, 1973 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played for the Detroit Cougars and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1929 . His older brother Ty was also an NHL player.

Career

Jack Arbor began his career as a hockey player in the Western Canada Hockey League , where he played for the Calgary Tigers for two years from 1921 to 1923 . He then stood for a year with the Seattle Metropolitans from the Pacific Coast Hockey Association under contract before returning to the Tigers for the 1924/25 season.

During the 1926/27 season, Arbor suspended ice hockey, but was then sold to the newly founded Detroit Cougars before the 1926/27 season , for which he scored five scorer points in 37 games in his first season in the National Hockey League , including four Gates. Nevertheless, he had to spend the next year with their then farm team from the Canadian Professional Hockey League , the Detroit Olympics .

On April 8, 1928, Arbor was given to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Jimmy Herbert . Detroit also had to pay $ 12,500 for this transfer. After a goal in ten missions for the Maple Leafs, Toronto sold the defender to the London Panthers from the Can-Pro, but only a month later he was sold again, this time to the Windsor Bulldogs , for which he played the following five seasons until 1933 the ice - first in the Can-Pro, later in the International Hockey League .

After two seasons in the North West Hockey League for the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Buckaroos , he last played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League . First he was another year for Portland, which had moved to the PCHL, then he was active for three seasons for the Spokane Clippers , where he ended his career.

Following his active career as a player, Arbor first worked as a player-coach for the Spokane Clippers from the PCHL in the 1936/37 season. He then worked from 1947 to 1949 with the Calgary Stampeders from the Western Canada Senior Hockey League for one season each as a coach and assistant coach. The Canadian ended his coaching career in 1950/51 as head coach of the Calgary Buffaloes from the Western Hockey League .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	2	47	5	1	6th	56
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Jack Arbor at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jack Arbor at legendsofhockey.net (English)