Joe Hall

Joe Hall
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1961
Date of birth	May 3, 1882
place of birth	Staffordshire , England , UK
date of death	April 5, 1919
Place of death	Seattle , Washington , USA
Nickname	Bad Joe
size	178 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1901-1902	Brandon Hockey Club
1902-1903	Brandon Elks
1903-1904	Winnipeg Rowing Club
1904-1905	Brandon Elks
1905-1906	Portage Lakes
1906-1907	Brandon Elks
1907-1908	Montréal AAA Montreal Shamrocks
1908-1909	Montreal Wanderers
1909-1910	Montreal shamrocks
1910-1917	Quebec Bulldogs
1917-1919	Montréal Canadiens

Joseph Henry "Bad Joe" Hall (born May 3, 1882 in Staffordshire , England , Great Britain ; † April 5, 1919 in Seattle , Washington , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player (defender) who worked for the Montréal Canadiens from 1917 to 1919 in played the National Hockey League .

Career

When Joe was two years old, his family emigrated from England to Winnipeg, Canada and later moved on to Brandon . There he learned ice hockey and played in different teams.

With the Winnipeg Rowing Club he was in 1904 for the first time in the Stanley Cup final. In 1905 he became a professional with the Houghton-Portage Lakes in the International Pro Hockey League . Back then he was still playing as an attacker and was voted one of the league's all-stars with 33 goals in 20 games. With 98 penalty minutes, however, he already indicated that he would later become a very tough player as a defender and thus earned his nickname Bad Joe . Since his team was not allowed to play the Stanley Cup, he moved to the Quebec Bulldogs, disappointed .

A short time later he switched to the Kenora Thistles . The team, which included Art Ross , won the Stanley Cup in 1907, but Hall was only a substitute and was not used.

Several years followed in which he played for various teams in eastern and western Canada. From 1910 he stayed with the Quebec Bulldogs, who were then playing in the National Hockey Association . There he won the Stanley Cup twice.

When the National Hockey League was founded for the 1917/18 season , the Bulldogs did not play, although they were one of the founding members. The players were loaned to the other teams in the league and Joe played from then on for the Montréal Canadiens . After the team only narrowly failed to take part in the final of the Stanley Cup in the first year, it was possible to qualify for the finals in the 1918/19 season. Opponents were the Seattle Metropolitans . However, the final series was under a bad star as five Montreals Canadiens players contracted Spanish flu . The series was canceled after five games on April 1, five days later Montreal defender "Bad" Joe died in the Seattle Columbus Sanatorium as a result of the disease.

In 1961 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	2	38	15th	8th	23	189
Playoffs	2	7th	0	1	1	38

Web links

• Joe Hall in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
• Joe Hall at hockeydb.com (English)