Pete Muldoon
Pete Muldoon (* 1881 Linton Muldoon Tracy, † March 6, 1929 ) was a Canadian ice hockey coach and functionary who has done during his career as head coach of the Seattle Metropolitans 1917 Stanley Cup victory, and in 1926 the first coach in the history the Chicago Blackhawks was.
Career
Pete Muldoon was sporting a variety of interests and played during his youth in addition to hockey in the Ontario Hockey Association and Lacrosse with a club in Vancouver. He was also successful as a boxer in the weight classes middleweight and light heavyweight in regional championships. 1914 Muldoon began his career as a hockey coach and was hired by the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. The following year, the Canadians moved to the Seattle Metropolitans. Muldoon led the Metropolitans several times to win the championship of the PCHA. The master of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association was entitled to play off against the winner of the National Hockey Association in a final series of the Stanley Cup winner. 1917 succeeded the Seattle Metropolitans actually win the first team from the United States, the Stanley Cup.
After the dissolution of the Metropolitans in 1924 Muldoon returned to Portland. For the season 1926/27, he became the first head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks. After one season he was released by the owner of the Blackhawks, Major Frederic McLaughlin. McLaughlin believed that the Blackhawks would end the season in first place in the American Division, but Muldoon disagreed and said that the Blackhawks would never finish the regular season in first place. On this plot towards the Muldoon curse and the team was remained there until 1967 prevented the regular season to finish in first place. After his release in Chicago Muldoon returned to Seattle and became the owner of the Seattle Eskimos of the Pacific Coast Hockey League. In addition, he worked as manager of the team. On March 6, 1929 Muldoon died of a heart attack and the Eskimos introduced after his death the Pete Muldoon Trophy.