Red Dutton

Red Dutton
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1958
Red Dutton (left) presents the Calder Memorial Trophy to Gus Bodnar
Date of birth	July 23, 1898
place of birth	Russell , Manitoba , Canada
date of death	March 15, 1987
Place of death	Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1920-1921	Calgary Canadians
1921-1926	Calgary Tigers
1926-1930	Montreal Maroons
1930-1936	New York Americans

Mervyn "Red" Dutton (born July 23, 1898 in Russell , Manitoba ; † March 15, 1987 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player (defender) and coach who worked for the Montreal Maroons and the New York Americans in National Hockey from 1926 to 1936 League played. From 1943 to 1946 he was President of the NHL.

Career

Mervyn went on collage in Winnipeg, but enlisted in the military in 1915. He sustained an injury from a shrapnel in his right leg and the doctors wanted to amputate the leg. The healing went much better than expected and the leg was able to recover completely. After he was unsuccessful professionally, he decided to become a professional ice hockey player and accepted an offer from the Calgary Canadians for $ 2,500. He moved to the Calgary Tigers and played with this team in the Western Canadian Hockey League . With this team he played for the Stanley Cup in 1924 . Beside him, Herb defended Gardiner .

For the 1926/27 season he moved to the Montreal Maroons in the National Hockey League . With this team failed again at the end of the 1927/28 season in the Stanley Cup Finals. For $ 35,000, the New York Americans brought four Maroons players for the 1930/31 season . In addition to Dutton, these were Mike Neville , Hap Emms and Frank Carson . He played in New York until the 1935/36 season, then he took over the job of coach for the Americans. Dutton developed into the man behind the Americans. It was he who renamed the team Brooklyn Americans and he also raised $ 7 million in funding to build a new stadium for the team. However, this never happened. The Americans stopped gaming in 1942 for wartime.

After the sudden death of NHL President Frank Calder , Dutton temporarily took over the chairmanship of the NHL. He had been promised that after the war he would be able to rebuild an NHL franchise in Brooklyn. He made plans for the future of the NHL and said that he could envision a league with 15 teams in three groups. Such statements did not meet with much approval in the NHL. The NHL also denied promised support for his plans in Brooklyn. When he left in 1946, however, he was able to get his colleague Clarence Campbell to succeed him.

Dutton was very upset, especially with the New York Rangers , who have always been up against a new team in the New York area. He's always been pleased that the Rangers couldn't win a Stanley Cup in his lifetime. He was active in the ice hockey environment for many years and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958 . But after his resignation as NHL President, he had not been in any NHL game until the first home game of the Calgary Flames in 1980.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	10	448	29	67	96	871
Playoffs	4th	18th	1	0	1	37

Sporting successes

Personal awards

• Second All-Star Team : 1939 (as a trainer)
• Lester Patrick Trophy : 1993

Web links

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