John Brackenborough

John Brackenborough
Date of birth	February 9, 1897
place of birth	Parry Sound , Ontario , Canada
date of death	July 8, 1993
Place of death	Dunedin , Florida , USA
Nickname	Spider
size	180 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1915-1916	Ottawa Grand Trunk
1919-1920	Depot Harbor
1920-1922	North Bay Trappers
1922-1924	Hamilton Tigers
1924-1925	Galt Terriers
1925-1926	Boston Bruins

John Charles "Spider" Brackenborough (born February 9, 1897 in Parry Sound , Ontario , † July 8, 1993 in Dunedin , Florida , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who, in the course of his active career between 1915 and 1926, among other things, seven games for played the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger . Brackenborough has 14 letters, the longest contiguous player surname ever accrued in the NHL.

Career

Brackenborough began his career in 1915 with the Ottawa Grand Trunk in the Ottawa City Hockey League , which was interrupted after only one year by the draft for the military . Only after completing three years of military service did the left winger return to ice hockey. First he went but the 1919/20 season for a year for the Depot Harbor in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association , the following two seasons for the league rivals North Bay Trappers .

For the 1922/23 season Brackenborough moved to the Hamilton Tigers in the Ontario Hockey Association . There he was one of the defining figures in the following two playing years. In his first year he was the top scorer in the league with 20 goals, in the following year the best preparer with twelve assists. Still, the Tigers season ended with a serious injury. An incident in a game against the University of Toronto in late February 1924 resulted in the striker going blind in his right eye. As a result, he missed the entire 1924/25 season, for which he had switched to the Galt Terriers within the OHA - also because he was not granted the right to play .

Brackenborough celebrated his career highlight although the loss of his right eye in the 1925/26 season when he played seven games for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League . They had signed him as a free agent . However, the Canadian did not find his way back to the form he was in before his injury and decided to end his playing career early at the age of 29.

Brackenborough died in Dunedin , Florida , in July 1993 at the age of 96.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	1	7th	0	0	0	0
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• John Brackenborough at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• John Brackenborough at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Five of the longest last names in NHL history. The Sports Network , September 7, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 .