Jack Darragh
John Proctor "Jack" Darragh ( born December 4, 1890 in Ottawa, Ontario, † June 25, 1924 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Between 1910 and 1924 he played in the National Hockey Association and since 1917 in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators in the position of right winger. In his 13 seasons plus career, he won four times with the Senators to the Stanley Cup. Darragh died in 1924 at the age of 33 years at a peritonitis. In 1962, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Career
In his youth, Jack Darragh played for the Ottawa Stewartons in a junior league of the Canadian province of Ontario. On November 27, 1910, he signed as a contract player loose a contract with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association ( NHA). In his first NHA season, he won the Stanley Cup with his new team. Darragh graduated in 16 games this season, thereby pass him 18 goals.
In the following four years, the Ottawa Senators reached only once a Stanley Cup finals; In 1915 it was clearly subject to there after three games the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ) in a discharged in the best-of -five series mode. After the dissolution of the NHA and the establishment of the National Hockey League ( NHL) 1917/18 won Jack Darragh with the Ottawa Senators in the NHL season 1919/20, his second Stanley Cup after the team in the Stanley Cup finals, the Seattle Metropolitans beat from the Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ). For the Senators, it was the eighth overall win this trophy; personally for Jack Darragh this season was 36 points scorer in 23 matches played in the regular season at the same time his most successful.
The Senators were on repeat their Stanley Cup success after the team won the final against the PCHA challenger Vancouver Millionaires in the season. The fifth and deciding game of the series won 2-1 in Ottawa, Darragh scoring both goals in the Senators. After this season, sat out the Canadians for a year with ice hockey, the Senators lost in the NHL this season finale against the Toronto St. Patricks.
Darragh returned to the NHL season 1922/23, the Ottawa Senators back. The Senators finished the regular season in first place in the table and met in the Stanley Cup Finals to the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League ( WCHL ). Ottawa won the best-of -three series with 2-0 victories. After his fourth Stanley Cup success of links Sagittarius completed yet another season in the National Hockey League, where he could not go on his usual performances.
After this season, the winger finished his career. In his 13 seasons plus career as a professional, he won four times with the Ottawa Senators to the Stanley Cup, in addition, he ran from 1916 to 1919 as captain of the senator. Darragh was considered a very good skater who had a good stock control and a good backhand shot. In addition, he was one of the few players at that time, which were used as links Sagittarius as a right winger. In a time when hockey was played very bitter and brutal, he also had the reputation as a peace-loving players.
Few months after his career end of 1924, Jack Darragh died at the age of 33 years at a peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix. In 1962 he was inducted posthumously into the Hockey Hall of Fame.