Corbett Denneny
Charles Corbett " Corb " Denneny ( born January 25, 1894 in Cornwall, Ontario, † January 16, 1963 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player ( center ), who from 1917 to 1928 for the Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League played.
Career
Denneny always stood in the shadow of his older brother Cy Denneny. But no other player was in the squad of so many high class teams in Toronto.
After two years with the Cobalt Mines McKinley in the CoMHL he came to the Toronto Shamrocks in the National Hockey Association. A year later, he moved in 1915 to the Toronto Blue Shirts, the then top team in Toronto. After it had come again and again to disputes between Blueshirts owner Edward J. Livingstone and the NHA, the team was excluded from Toronto and Corb Denneny moved to his birthplace to the Ottawa Senators. To settle the disputes in the NHA, founded the owner of four teams, the National Hockey League and joined Livingston from. Nevertheless, one would have a team in Toronto and the Toronto Arenas as were founded. Denneny played for the team and scored in the first NHL season 1917/18 in 22 games scoring 20 goals. He arrived with the team's final series for the Stanley Cup, scoring three goals in the final tournament. He helped his team first Stanley Cup winner in the history of the NHL to become.
The team was renamed after two seasons in Toronto St. Patricks. With 24 goals he was in the first season, the most successful player of his team. Even with the St. Patricks he could win the Stanley Cup in season 1921/22.
He then transferred to the Canadian west coast, where he played for the Vancouver Maroons in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Toronto received in return Jack Adams. Even with this team because he reached the final tournament for the Stanley Cup, but already for the season 1923/24, he returned to the NHL. Well he played for the Hamilton Tigers. It was followed by two seasons with the Saskatoon Crescents in the Western Canada Hockey League and WHL before moving back to Toronto again. The team was now called Maple Leafs and he played in a series with Hap Day and George Patterson.
In the following years, he still came to 18 sessions for the Chicago Black Hawks, but also played for the Saskatoon Sheiks in the Prairie Hockey League, where he was in 1927/28 top scorer. Until 1931, he was still active and played in the AHA for the Minneapolis Millers and the Chicago Shamrocks, but also a year at the Newark Bulldogs in the Canadian - American Hockey League.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup: 1918 and 1922
Personal Awards
- PCHA Second All-Star Team: 1923
- WHL All-Star Team: 1926