Punch Broadbent
Harry L. " Punch" Broadbent ( born July 13, 1892 in Ottawa, Ontario, † March 6, 1971 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who from 1918 to 1929 for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons and New York Americans in the National Hockey League played.
Career
Broadbent was a technically well-trained player who played with great physical effort, and thus united the characteristics of a Power Forwards. He played several years with the Ottawa and Ottawa New Edinburgh Cliffsides and there became a local size before the 1912 Ottawa Senators joined, the then played in the National Hockey Association. Together with Clint Benedict and Art Ross he lost the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals against the Vancouver Millionaires, after he had scored in the season 24 goals in 20 games.
In 1915 he moved to the First World War and did not return until the second season in the NHL. He joined his good performances from the pre-war period. 1920, 1921 and 1923, he won with the Senators the Stanley Cup and played it in a row with Frank Nighbor and Cy Denneny. In the final series in 1923 paved Duke Keats, the outstanding striker of the Edmonton Eskimos, the Senators headache. With an elbow check against the then very successful power forward Frank Voss took stock Broadbent respect of which Keats seemed deeply impressed.
So that the league was more balanced, he joined together with Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons. There he took his fourth Stanley Cup in 1926. For the 1927/28 season he returned in exchange for Hooley Smith back to Ottawa, but was delivered to the New York Americans in the following year.
In 1962 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup: 1920, 1921, 1923 and 1926
Personal Awards
- Best Scorer: 1922 ( this later became the Art Ross Trophy awarded)
- Best scorer: 1922 ( this was later the Maurice Richard Trophy awarded)