Jack Darragh

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 1963
Jack Darragh
Date of birth 4th December 1890
place of birth Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
date of death June 25, 1924
Place of death Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 76 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1908-1910 Ottawa Stewartons
1910-1921 Ottawa Senators
1922-1924 Ottawa Senators

John Proctor "Jack" Darragh (born December 4, 1890 in Ottawa , Ontario , † June 25, 1924 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player . Between 1910 and 1924 he played in the National Hockey Association and from 1917 in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators on the position of right winger . In his 13-season career, he won the Stanley Cup four times with the Senators . 1924 Darragh died at the age of 33 years at a peritonitis . In 1962 he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Jack Darragh (back row, 2nd from left) in an Ottawa Senators team photo from the 1914-15 NHA season .

In his youth, Jack Darragh played for the Ottawa Stewartons in a junior league in the Canadian province of Ontario . On November 27, 1910, he signed a contract with the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey Association (NHA) as a non-contract player . In his first NHA season he won the Stanley Cup with his new team . Darragh played 16 games this season, scoring 18 goals.

Darragh in the Ottawa Senators jersey.

In the following four years, the Ottawa Senators reached a Stanley Cup finals only once; In 1915 , after three games, they were clearly defeated by the Vancouver Millionaires from the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) in a best-of-five series. After the dissolution of the NHA and the formation of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1917/18 , Jack Darragh won his second Stanley Cup with the Ottawa Senators in the 1919/20 NHL season , after the team won the Seattle Metropolitans in the Stanley Cup final from the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). For the Senators it was the eighth overall win of this trophy; for Jack Darragh personally, this season was also his most successful with 36 scorer points in 23 completed games in the regular season .

The Senators were able to repeat their Stanley Cup success in the following season , after the team won the final against the PCHA challenger Vancouver Millionaires. Ottawa won the fifth and decisive game of this series 2-1, Darragh scored both goals for the Senators. After this season, the Canadian sat out ice hockey for a year, the Senators lost the NHL final against the Toronto St. Patricks this season .

Darragh returned to the Ottawa Senators for the 1922-23 NHL season . The Senators finished the regular season in first place in the table and met the Edmonton Eskimos from the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) in the Stanley Cup final . Ottawa won the best-of-three series with 2-0 victories. After his fourth Stanley Cup success, the left shooter completed another season in the National Hockey League, in which he could no longer build on his usual performance.

After this season, the winger ended his career. In his 13-season professional career, he won the Stanley Cup four times with the Ottawa Senators, and from 1916 to 1919 he was the team captain of the Senators. Darragh was considered a very good skater who had good stick control and a good backhand shot. In addition, he was one of the few players at the time who was used as a left-handed player as a right winger. At a time when ice hockey was played very bitterly and brutally, he also had a reputation as a peace-loving player.

A few months after retiring from his career in 1924, Jack Darragh died at the age of 33 from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix . In 1962 he was inducted posthumously into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
1908-1909 Ottawa Stewartons OCHL
1909-1910 Ottawa Stewartons OCHL 5 11 0 11 11 1 0 0 0 3
Ottawa Cliffsides OCHL - - - - - 3 4th 0 4th 0
1910-1911 Ottawa Stewartons OCHL 3 7th 0 7th 0 - - - - -
1910-11 Ottawa Senators NHA 16 18th 0 18th 36 2 0 0 0 6th
1911-12 Ottawa Senators NHA 17th 15th 0 15th 10 - - - - -
1912-13 Ottawa Senators NHA 20th 15th 0 15th 16 - - - - -
1913-14 Ottawa Senators NHA 20th 23 5 28 69 - - - - -
1914-15 Ottawa Senators NHA 18th 11 2 13 32 5 4th 0 4th 9
1915-16 Ottawa Senators NHA 21st 16 5 21st 41 - - - - -
1916-17 Ottawa Senators NHA 20th 24 4th 28 17th 2 2 0 2 3
1917-18 Ottawa Senators NHL 18th 14th 5 19th 26th - - - - -
1918-19 Ottawa Senators NHL 14th 11 3 14th 33 5 2 0 2 3
1919-20 Ottawa Senators NHL 23 22nd 14th 36 22nd 5 5 2 7th 3
1920-21 Ottawa Senators NHL 24 11 15th 26th 20th 7th 5 0 5 14th
1921-22 not played
1922-23 Ottawa Senators NHL 24 6th 9 15th 10 2 1 0 1 2
1923-24 Ottawa Senators NHL 18th 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 2
OCHL overall 8th 18th 0 18th 11 4th 4th 0 4th 3
NHA total 132 122 16 138 221 9 6th 0 6th 18th
NHL overall 121 66 46 112 113 21st 13 2 15th 24

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com, Jack Darragh - Notes. Retrieved September 5, 2011 .
  2. ↑ legendsofhockey.net, Jack Darragh. Retrieved September 5, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Darragh, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darragh, John Proctor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1924
Place of death Ottawa , Ontario