Newsy Lalonde

Charles Edouard " Newsy " Lalonde ( born October 31, 1887 in Cornwall, Ontario, † November 21, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who from 1917 to 1927 for the Montreal Canadiens and New York Americans in the National Hockey League played.

Career

As a teenager, he worked at a newspaper in Cornwall as a printer and reporter. Here he also got his nickname " Newsy ". Already 12 years before the founding of the National Hockey League played Newsy age of 19 his first professional hockey game in Woodstock. Three years later he was there when the Canadian Athletic Club, the predecessor to the Montreal Canadiens in the " Jubilee Rink " on natural ice made ​​his first game. He played in the early years in Toronto, Regina and Vancouver. With the Canadiens in 1916, he won his only Stanley Cup. When the NHL was founded, he was already 30 years old, but he was in the first years of the scorer. Twice he led the scorers list in the first four years, he was always among the top 4 after the fifth season, he was for $ 3,500 and sent the rights to Aurèle Joliat to Saskatoon. He returned back yet for a game with the New York Americans in the NHL.

But Newsy was not only one of the best hockey players of his time, he was probably the best Canadian lacrosse player of the first half of the 20th century. With lacrosse, he earned more money than with hockey.

The 1929 stock market crash led him to a large part of its assets.

In 1950 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

NHL stats

Sporting successes

• Stanley Cup: 1916

Personal Awards

• NHL leading scorer: 1919 and 1921 (later became the Art Ross Trophy awarded for this )
• Top Scorers: 1919 later together with Odie Cleghorn was awarded the Maurice Richard Trophy for this

Records

• 5 goals in a playoff game ( March 1, 1919; Canadiens - Senators 6-3 ) together with Maurice Richard, Darryl Sittler, Reggie Leach and Mario Lemieux )