Punch Broadbent

Punch Broadbent
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1962
Date of birth	July 13, 1892
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
date of death	March 6, 1971
size	170 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1908-1909	Ottawa Emmetts
1909-1911	Ottawa Cliffsides
1911-1912	Ottawa New Edinburgh
1912-1924	Ottawa Senators
1924-1927	Montreal Maroons
1927-1928	Ottawa Senators
1928-1929	New York Americans

Harry L. "Punch" Broadbent (born July 13, 1892 in Ottawa , Ontario ; † March 6, 1971 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who from 1918 to 1929 for the Ottawa Senators , Montreal Maroons and New York Americans in the National Hockey League played.

Career

Broadbent was a technically well-trained player who played with great physical effort and thus combined the characteristics of a power forward . He played for a few years with the Ottawa Cliffsides and Ottawa New Edinburghs and became a local player there before joining the Ottawa Senators in 1912 , who were then playing in the National Hockey Association . Together with Clint Benedict and Art Ross , he lost the Stanley Cup final to the Vancouver Millionaires in 1915 after scoring 24 goals in 20 games during the season.

In 1915 he moved into World War I and did not return until the second season of the NHL . He continued his good performance from the pre-war period. In 1920, 1921 and 1923 he won the Stanley Cup with the Senators, playing in a series with Frank Nighbor and Cy Denneny . In the 1923 final series, Duke Keats , the preeminent striker of the Edmonton Eskimos , gave the Senators a headache. With an elbow check against the then very successful power forward Frank Voss , Broadbent gained respect, which Keats seemed to be impressed by.

So that the league was more balanced, he moved to the Montreal Maroons together with Clint Benedict . There he won his fourth Stanley Cup in 1926 . For the 1927/28 season he returned to Ottawa in exchange for Hooley Smith , but was given to the New York Americans the following year .

In 1962 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	11	302	122	45	167	553
Playoffs	10	23	4th	6th	10	60

Sporting successes

• Stanley Cup : 1920 , 1921 , 1923 and 1926

Personal awards

• Best scorer: 1922 (later the Art Ross Trophy was awarded for this)
• Top scorer: 1922 (later the Maurice Richard Trophy was awarded for this)

Records

• 16 consecutive games with at least one goal ( 1921/22 season ; 27 goals)

Web links

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