Russ Blinco

Russ Blinco
Date of birth	March 12, 1908
place of birth	Grand-Mère , Quebec , Canada
date of death	1982
size	178 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1929-1932	Brooklyn Crescents
1932-1933	Springfield Indians Windsor Bulldogs
1933-1938	Montreal Maroons
1938-1939	Chicago Black Hawks

Russ Blinco (born March 12, 1908 in Grand-Mère , Québec , †  1982 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player ( center ) who played for the Montreal Maroons and Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League from 1933 to 1939 .

Career

Blinco moved after three years with the Brooklyn Crescents in 1932 to the Springfield Indians in the Canadian-American Hockey League . During the season he moved to the International Hockey League for the Windsor Bulldogs . As part of this transaction, the NHL rights to him were transferred from the New York Rangers to the Detroit Red Wings , which soon afterwards passed them on to the Montreal Maroons . After good performance in Windsor at the start of the season, Blinco was appointed to the National Hockey League by the Maroons during the 1933/34 season . After performing well in his NHL debut season, he was named the best rookie by League President Frank Calder .

The native Canadian showed strengths both on the offensive and on the defensive. He was one of the fairest athletes of his time. In the 1934/35 season he won the Stanley Cup with the Maroons . In 1937 he played at the Howie Morenz Memorial Game in a selection of players from the Maroons and Montréal Canadiens who competed against an all-star team of the other six NHL teams. Blinko was the first player in the NHL to play with glasses . His nickname was "Beaver" .

For $ 30,000, he joined the Chicago Black Hawks for the 1938/39 season with Baldy Northcott and Earl Robinson . There he played one more season before ending his career.

Achievements and Awards

• 1934 Calder Trophy
• 1935 Stanley Cup win with the Montreal Maroons

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
1932-33	Springfield Indians	Can-Am		13	2	2	4th			-	-	-	-	-
1932-33	Windsor Bulldogs	IHL		28	13	10	23	12		6th	2	3	5	2
1933-34	Montreal Maroons	NHL		31	14th	9	23	2		4th	0	1	1	0
1933-34	Windsor Bulldogs	IHL		16	6th	5	11	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1934-35	Montreal Maroons	NHL		48	13	14th	27	4th		7th	2	2	4th	2
1935-36	Montreal Maroons	NHL		46	13	10	23	10		3	0	0	0	0
1936-37	Montreal Maroons	NHL		48	6th	12	18th	2		5	1	0	1	2
1937-38	Montreal Maroons	NHL		47	10	9	19th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1938-39	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		48	3	12	15th	2		-	-	-	-	-
IHL total				44	19th	15th	34	16		6th	2	3	5	2
NHL overall				268	59	66	125	24		19th	3	3	6th	4th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Russ Blinco at hockeydb.com (English)
• Russ Blinco at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bishop University - RBC WALL OF DISTINCTION ( Memento of February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )