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Morey Holzman was interviewed by the Oddfellows on his recent book The Odd Fellow's Heart. The interview starts arounfd the 10 minute mark.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1188695/9276648-ep-39-odd-fellows-heart-with-morey-holzman
Did someone say Hockey and Odd Fellowship? Yes we did! Journalist, author Morey Holzman joins Billy and Tara to discuss his second book, The Odd Fellow’s Heart, on the history of Hockey’s origins, but this one has a discovered Odd Fellows slant. M...
The first book review came out for The Odd Fellow's Heart. Short version: "Hockey fans should read first and then put on their bookshelves to share with others."
Full version:
https://thehockeywriters.com/montreal-winter-carnivals-birthplace-modern-hockey/
The history of modern hockey has been debated for years. How does Morey Holzman's new book shed light on the topic?
https://sports.yahoo.com/seattle-kraken-officially-becomes-32nd-173033335.html
Congratulations are in order to Seattle, the final resting place of the co-founder of modern hockey, Jimmy Stewart. Read about his contribution in The Odd Fellow's Heart, available at Amazon now.
Sometimes a golden opportunity is blown, and it feels like the end of the world. But champions have a way of bouncing back.
Once such champion was Charles Archbald (misspelled Archibald in newspapers and historical records).
Archbald was a promising junior for the Montreal Hawthornes, and a champion canoeist to boot.
When the Mussen brothers could not play the Feb. 9, 1895, match against Quebec, Archbald was one of the players tagged to take a forward position for the Montreal A.A.A.
And like the storybook beginning, Archbald received a pass from Archie Hodgson and scored the game's first goal nine minutes into his senior debut for the defending Stanley Cup champions.
That would be the highlight of Archbald's career. He played the next two games and contributed little. Montreal lost both, and ending their league championship streak at 7 years.
Archbald's hockey career came to an end, but his typewriter business was taking off. By 1905, he had moved to New Jersey and invented the black and red typewriter ribbon that those of us of a certain age remember using.
From this morning's research: A reporter's opinion in the Vancouver Daily World, March 8, 1913.
"Whenever a home club shall be satisfied with the work of the referees put it down in your little book the millennium has arrived."
Nope. The millennium arrived. Hasn't happened yet.
Coming in May 2021 - the story how hockey was really born!
Three weeks again, I was lucky enough to be on a Zoom call with former Chicago Black Hawk Fred Sasakamoose, who talked about the prejudice he faced as a First Nations hockey player. He was perfectly fine three weeks ago, and even yesterday he sent out a photo from the hospital with a thumb's up. This afternoon, Fred died. His autobiography, "Call Me Indian", is due out in April.
Tom Paton, great goalie for the Montreal A.A.A. and one of the original founders of the A.A.A., which is still in operation today. They are officially known as Club Sportif MAA.
Our website is still in development, but it is live. If you would like to read the introduction and first chapter of The Odd Fellow's Heart, go to hrabooks.com and click blog.
The cover for the new book...
This tidbit didn't make it into The Odd Fellow's Heart, but for those who follow the news: Hockey pioneer J. A. Stewart, captain of the first two Stanley Cup winners, died just three blocks from Seattle's Autonomous Zone.
On the day that Jean Beliveau officially announced his retirement, Montreal Canadiens' General Manager Sam Po***ck confirmed he was going to select Guy Lafleur as the first overall pick. He also made overtures to Detroit GM Ned Harkness. He offered Phil Myre or Rogie Vachon plus a defenseman for Detroit's pick, which was second. Harkness made overtures that Detroit would bypass Marcel Dionne for Gene Carr, but eventually selected Dionne second overall. Funny part: Po***ck didn't dangle Ken Dryden, who was called The Human Octopus when he played for Harkness at Cornell. Can you imagine the Canadiens with Dionne as well as Lafleur?
Adding to the confusion of when the Montreal Hockey Club initially refused the Stanley Cup: Stanley Cup Trustee Phil Ross' younger brother Jim was one of the team's founders.
Jimmy Stewart became the captain of the first two Stanley Cup winners, the Montreal Hockey Club. When his club had a dispute with the Montreal A.A.A. the Stanley Cup was presented by Trustee Phil Ross to the A.A.A. Stewart and the hockey players felt snubbed as the club was independent in every aspect except for the winged wheelers logo they were allowed to use. Stewart first got his start in Montreal sporting circles in ten years earlier when he won the one mile and two mile races in the Winter Carnival, beating out 10 other competitors. The second-place finisher? Willie Ross, Phil's younger brother!
The posts from the last several days are from our future book: The Odd Fellow's Heart
After the Montreal A.A.A. won the first Stanley Cup championship in 1894 the hockey club wanted to place an order for commemorative watches. The Montreal A.A.A. was so petty that the executive board threatened a trademark infringement lawsuit against the watchmaker, even though the organization allowed their insignia on the hockey club's uniforms.
Family affair: One of the first great goaltenders in hockey history was Tom Paton, goalie for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. He retired in 1893, at the rather advanced age of 37, because he got engaged to the charming 21-year-old Lilly Bowie. The wedding was in the Bowie house, and one of Paton's attendants was Lilly's 12-year-old younger brother, Russ. Russell Bowie became one of the all-time great amateur players and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
When the final Montreal Carnival was closed, the finale of the Carnival's hockey tournament took a place nearly a week later. Although the Carnival was considered meh, the tournament was another story. A full house packed the Victoria Rink. When Billy Virtue scored for the Crystals to tie the game at 2-2, the crowd was so loud that the ice shook - a strange and unusual phenomenon at the time. The Victoria Rink cheers were so loud that they interrupted a curling match - 400 meters away inside the Royal Caledonian Curling Rink.
There has been so much focus on the birthplace of hockey being in Canada that a similar game with a similar name was being developed in England at the same time as the Canadian development. In 1889, an unidentified English hockey player described the British version as safer than association football. "The main difference between the two is that instead of kicking a large and soft ball you hit a small and hard one...Probably many of the readers have played hockey on the ice, or have seen a band of roughs swooping about the frozen surface of one of the London waters, hitting a cork b**g about with the accompianment of a large amount of horseplay. To theiur minds hockey no doubt presents the rememberance of a confused melee in which the sole object was to obtain possession of the ball or b**g, and retain it against all comers for as long as possible. This game is to hockey proper what stool ball is to cricket - the first rude outline from which the completed game has evolved."
The Detroit Red Wings have one of the most intricate logos in sports. If you wish to see where Big Jim Norris drew the inspiration for the name when he pulled the Detroit Falcons out of bankruptcy, you need to go to a Montreal Canadiens game. Well, you don't need to actually go to the game. About six blocks away from Bell Centre is the home of Le Club Sportif. Le Club Sportif is the rebranded home of the former Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, and on the face of the building about five stories up is their logo, the Winged Wheel. Jim Norris was a member, although Norris left about five years before the club moved into its current location.
Aftermath of the Richard Riot: Montreal's Maurice Richard was suspended for the rest of the 1955 season, which led to the Richard Riot. At the time of what would be a 14-game suspension, thanks to a scheduling quirk and the playoffs, the Red Wings and Canadiens played eight times. The three games played in the Forum were all won by the Canadiens. The five played in the Olympia were all won by the Red Wings. Gordie Howe, who was never suspended, scored the Cup-winning goal.
Aftermath: From 1955 until the Forum closed in 1996, the Canadiens won 17 more Stanley Cups while the Red Wings won none. The year after the Canadiens moved to Bell Centre, the Wings won their first of 4 Cups - and the Canadiens haven't even made the Final.
These are the so-called ghosts of the Forum.
Circle of Life: Tom Paton was a star with the Montreal Lacrosse Club when it was scheduled to play a match in Toronto. Paton let it be known that work obligations prevented him from going to Toronto, so a substitute named Paterson agreed to take his place, but only if Paterson was actually going to play. Paterson received permission to miss work, joined the team in Toronto, and stood on the sidelines as Paton made the game. This led to in-fighting on the Montreal Lacrosse Club, pitting Paton against teammate Billie Cleghorn. When Paton did not have the full support of his teammates he changed hockey history by starting the Montreal AAA Hockey Club. While he and Cleghorn soon patched their differences, the popularity of hockey thanks to Paton's AAA gave two of Cleghorn's sons - Odie and Sprague - careers. Odie is the person credited with line changes while the action is on-going, and Sprague was a tough-as-nails defenseman who ended up in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Lord Shelburne signed the Peace of Paris Treaty with Benjamin Franklin, and was reviled in England for it. His great grandson, Lord Lansdowne, was similary hated for a letter he wrote calling for an end of World War I violence before Germany was defeated. 35 years before Lord Lansdowne wrote that letter, he opened the 1884 Winter Carnival in Montreal as Canada's Governor-General. The Crystal Hockey Club, composed of commoners, competed the elite-members of society playing as the Montreal Victorias as class barriers fell in hockey. Said Lord Lansdowne at the opening, "Neither the nation or the individual can exist without recreation." Thus a call for Canada to have a national sport began in earnest.
Trivia question: Who were the first brother and sister to win Oscars, and what is their connection to hockey?
Answer: Norma Shearer, who won best actress in 1930 for The Divorcee, and her brother Douglas won seven Oscars - five for sound and two for visual effects.
Their father, Andy, was one of the pioneers of hockey and played for the Montreal Victorias in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Andy was also a star rugby player with the Britannia Club.
Sudden Death By Penalty Shot...including an interview with Duke Keats, who scored the only penalty shot that ended a Stanley Cup playoff series
Here's a link to the first podcast: The Birth of Hockey, talking about how the sport of hockey evolved until 1886, when thanks to a combination of anti-vaxxers and enthusiastic college students and recent graduates, a sport was born.
https://hra.podbean.com
Jeremy Smith of the Hockey Research Association and friends tell the stories of the history of hockey...
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