Taffy Abel
Date of birth | May 28, 1900 |
place of birth | Sault Ste. Marie , Michigan , USA |
date of death | August 1, 1964 |
Place of death | Sault Ste. Marie , Michigan , USA |
size | 185 cm |
Weight | 102 kg |
position | defender |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
1918-1919 | Michigan Soo Nationals |
1919-1922 | Michigan Soo Wildcats |
1922-1925 | St. Paul Athletic Club |
1925-1926 | Minneapolis Millers |
1926-1929 | New York Rangers |
1929-1934 | Chicago Black Hawks |
Clarence John "Taffy" Abel (born May 28, 1900 in Sault Ste. Marie , Michigan ; † August 1, 1964 ibid) was an American ice hockey player who worked for the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks during his active career played in the National Hockey League .
Career
Taffy Abel first played ice hockey in the US state of Michigan from 1918 and was on the ice for the Michigan Soo Nationals and Michigan Soo Wildcats in the following four seasons . In 1922, the defensive player continued his career with the St. Paul Athletic Club in the United States Amateur Hockey Association . After two good seasons, he was appointed to the US national team for the 1924 Winter Olympics . The defender scored 15 goals in this tournament, six of them in each of the two games against Sweden and France . Only in the encounter against Canada he remained unsuccessful, this was also the only lost game of the US-Americans, who thereby won the silver medal. After the tournament, he initially continued his career as an amateur player and went for another season in Saint Paul , Minnesota , on the ice.
This was followed by an engagement with the Minneapolis Millers in the CHL, before Abel received a contract with the New York Rangers in August 1926 . Abel was the first American outfield player in the history of the National Hockey League . In the Big Apple he usually formed a defensive duo with Ching Johnson , both of whom were considered to be particularly physically present actors and were a resilient duo. In the 1927/28 season Abel reached the final series of the Stanley Cup with the Blueshirts . In the second encounter against the Montreal Maroons , the Rangers goalkeeper Lorne Chabot was injured and was replaced by General Manger Lester Patrick , who had never played as a goalkeeper before. Patrick allowed only one goal against in the course of the game and thanks to the defensive work of the duo Abel and Johnson, the Rangers won the prestigious trophy, the Stanley Cup, for the first time. In April 1929, the Rangers Taffy Abel sold to the Chicago Black Hawks for $ 15,000 . In Windy City , too , the defensive player, who usually formed a duo with Mush March , was a fixture in the squad and won his second Stanley Cup with the Hawks in 1934. After this success, he ended his active career, among other things because the owner of the Hawks had refused him a raise.
When the United States Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1973 , Abel was one of the 25 founding members. The home ground of the Lake Superior State University ice hockey team , the Taffy Abel Arena , was named after him.
Achievements and Awards
- 1924 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
- 1926 CHL First All-Star Team
- 1928 Stanley Cup win with the New York Rangers
- 1934 Stanley Cup win with the Chicago Black Hawks
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1922/23 | St. Paul Athletic Club | USAHA | 18th | 3 | 0 | 3 | - | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1923/24 | St. Paul Athletic Club | USAHA | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1924/25 | St. Paul Athletic Club | USAHA | 39 | 8th | 0 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1925/26 | Minneapolis Millers | CHL | 35 | 12 | 9 | 21st | 56 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | ||
1926/27 | New York Rangers | NHL | 44 | 8th | 4th | 12 | 78 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | ||
1927/28 | New York Rangers | NHL | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | ||
1928/29 | New York Rangers | NHL | 44 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 41 | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
1929/30 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 38 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 46 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||
1930/31 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 43 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
1931/32 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 4th | 3 | 7th | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1932/33 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 47 | 0 | 4th | 4th | 63 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1933/34 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 46 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
USAHA total | 60 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
NHL overall | 333 | 20th | 18th | 38 | 361 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 58 |
( 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 )
International
Represented the USA at:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1924 | United States | Olympia | 5 | 15th | 0 | 15th | 8th | ||
Men overall | 5 | 15th | 0 | 15th | 8th |
( 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 )
literature
- Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Who's Who in Hockey. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, United States 2003, ISBN 0740719041 .
Web links
- Taffy Abel at hockeydb.com (English)
- Taffy Abel at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Taffy Abel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Abel, Taffy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abel, Clarence John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1900 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sault Ste. Marie , Michigan |
DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1964 |
Place of death | Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan |