Carl Voss

Carl Potter Voss ( born January 6, 1907 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, † September 13, 1994 ) was an American professional ice hockey player ( center ), who from 1926 to 1939 for the Toronto St. Patricks and Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Eagles, New York Americans, Montreal Maroons and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League played. Later he was umpire of the NHL.

Career

Voss moved as a teenager with his parents to Canada. Where he learned to play ice hockey. As Conn Smythe general manager of the Toronto St. Patricks, was Voss was on 16 February 1927, the first player, Smythe took them under contract.

But his stakes were only rarely. He was often used in farm teams. He was particularly effective with the Buffalo Bisons in the IHL to which they had given him in 1929. As top scorer of the IHL, the New York Rangers were attentive to him and picked him up for $ 15,000 and Lorne Carr in the NHL. After ten games in the season 1932/33, the Rangers sold him to the Detroit Red Wings. After he had made over the years in Toronto only 14 games, scored the now 25 -year-old even as a rookie. Frank Calder, president of the NHL, awarded at the end of this season for the first time a trophy for the best rookie and Voss was the first winner.

After only eight games the following season, the Red Wings sent him to the Ottawa Senators, and put quite a bit of money on it to undertake Cooney Weiland. After the season he moved to the Senators and then played one year for the St. Louis Eagles. From there, the Red Wings brought him back, just a day later to pass it to the New York Americans.

In the 1935/36 season he started again with a new team. The Montreal Maroons he stayed on the end of the season also. After three matches in the following season he left the team. Shortly thereafter, he joined his last NHL team, the Chicago Blackhawks. With this team he won his only Stanley Cup. The decisive game was played before a record crowd of 18 497 spectators. Voss scored in this game, the crucial second goal for Chicago. As one of eight born in the United States players in the team of the Stanley Cup winner he was also at a record. In the course of preparation for the next season, he injured his knee hard and had to end his career.

After the end of his career he joined the Canadian Cycle & Motor Company (CCM ), which also produced ice hockey equipment besides motorcycles. Besides, he was also active as a referee and directed games in the American Hockey League. He replaced Jim Hendy as president of the USHL and following the dissolution of the League, he took over the AHL team of the St. Louis Flyers as coach and general manager. During the entire time it focused the education and training of referees.

In the NHL you had followed his good work. 1950, brought him therefore in the staff of the National Hockey League. In the 15 years in which he served as umpire increased to the number of arbitrators from 10 to 23 He observed referee in the lower benches, and managed to get the best of them in the NHL. The training and supervision was lifted from him to a new level.

A special honor was inclusion in the Hockey Hall of Fame in the category of functionaries 1974.

NHL stats

Sporting successes

  • Stanley Cup: 1938

Personal Awards

  • Calder Trophy: 1933
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