Art Ross
Art Ross | |||
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Hockey Hall of Fame, 1949 | |||
Born |
Naughton, Ontario, Canada | January 13, 1885||
Died |
August 5, 1964 Medford, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 79)||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb) | ||
Position | Point/Defence | ||
Shot | Left | ||
Played for | |||
Playing career | 1905–1918 |
Arthur Howey Ross (January 13, 1885
After several years as an
Outside of his association with the Bruins, Ross also helped to improve the game. He created a style of
Early life
Arthur Howey Ross
Ross spent his early years at the trading post, and first learned to skate on the nearby lake. He grew up speaking English, and was taught French by his mother, and later in life claimed he knew
In Montreal Ross attended Westmount Academy, and became active in a variety of sports, though he was best at hockey and Canadian football (which was still very similar to rugby football at the time).[9] He likely first played organized hockey in the 1900–01 season, joining the Westmount Amateur Athletic Association. With this club he first met the brothers Lester and Frank Patrick, both of whom were later inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.[10] Ross and Lester had a financially successful ticket resale business at the Montreal Arena, buying tickets for thirty-five cents and selling them for up to a dollar.[11]
Playing career
1905–09
The best hockey players on their high school team, Ross and the Patrick brothers were invited to play occasional games for local league teams in Montreal.[12] Ross first played in a senior league in 1905, joining Montreal Westmount of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL), the top amateur league in Canada. He scored ten goals in eight games during the season. His opponents regarded him as one of the best rushing defencemen. Most defenders at the time either shot the puck down the ice or passed to a forward; in contrast, Ross skated up the ice, taking the puck into the offensive zone.[13] Later that year, wishing to pursue a career in banking, he moved to Brandon, Manitoba, where he joined the Brandon Wheat City Hockey Club of the Manitoba Hockey League, the senior league in the province. In 1906, his first season, he scored six goals in seven games while he recorded six goals in ten games in 1907. Around this time, the Kenora Thistles, the Manitoba League champions, wanted to strengthen their team for the Stanley Cup challenge against the Montreal Wanderers in Montreal during January 1907. They paid Ross $1,000 to play both matches, a common practice at the time, and the Thistles won the Cup. While failing to score, Ross started many plays and proved an important part of the team. Although he played for the opposing team, he received a good reception from the Montreal crowd.[13][14] Ross did not play for the Thistles when the two teams played for the Cup again in March, which the Wanderers won to take back the Cup.[15]
The following year Ross moved back to Montreal. He joined the Wanderers, the team he had helped to defeat, who played in the
1909–18
A new league, the
Prior to the 1913–14 NHA season, Ross refused to sign a contract for the Wanderers, requesting a salary increase. As one of the top players on the team, the Wanderers agreed to his demands of $1,500 for the forthcoming season, in which he finished with four goals and nine points in eighteen games.[23] The next season Ross, again concerned with his salary, began negotiating with other players in the NHA to leave their teams and form a new league that would offer higher wages. These actions resulted in his suspension in November 1914 by Emmett Quinn, president of the NHA.[24] Ross responded by declaring himself a free agent and claiming his contract with the Wanderers was no longer valid. Consequently, although having no technical power to do so, Quinn suspended Ross from all organized hockey.[24] The proposed new league failed to materialize and Ross applied for reinstatement to the NHA, which was granted at a meeting of the team owners on December 18, 1914.[25] The owners realized if they suspended Ross, they would also have to suspend all those he signed, hurting the league.[26] However, Ross's actions led to his release by the Wanderers. At first he trained with the Montreal Canadiens, then joined the Ottawa Senators.[25]
At the conclusion of the 1914–15 season, the Senators and Wanderers finished with identical records of fourteen wins and six losses. A two-game, total goal series was played to determine the NHA league champion who would contest the Stanley Cup with the Pacific Coast Hockey Association winner, the Vancouver Millionaires. Ross, who finished with three goals in sixteen games in the season, scored one goal in the first match against the Wanderers, a Senators 4–0 victory, and though Ottawa lost the second game 1–0, they won the series, 4–1.[27] To help the Senators stop the Wanderers, who were known for their speed, Ross created a new system of defence. Termed "kitty bar the door", it required three defenders to align themselves across the ice 30 feet in front of the goaltender to stop offensive rushes.[28] This style of defence would later be used in a modified version known as the neutral zone trap, later used widely to stop opposition offensive chances.[29]
The following year Ross, who had eight goals and eight assists in twenty-one games, was the second highest paid player on the team; his salary of $1,400 was $100 less than Frank Nighbor made. Even so, Ross left the team in 1916, returning to Montreal in order to look after his sporting-goods store, and rejoining the Wanderers. He scored six goals and had two assists in sixteen games for the team.[30]
The Wanderers, along with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Arenas, Quebec Bulldogs and Ottawa Senators dissolved the NHA and founded the National Hockey League (NHL) in November 1917. Prior to the start of the season Ross was named coach of the Wanderers, in addition to playing for the team.[31] He played in the first game in NHL history on December 19, 1917, in which the Wanderers defeated the Toronto Arenas 10–9, in Montreal; Ross earned the league's first penalty during the game and also scored his first and only NHL goal.[32] A fire on January 2, 1918, destroyed their home, the Montreal Arena, and forced them to fold after four games. However, the NHL insisted the team continue to play, and recorded two additional scheduled matches as defaulted losses for the Wanderers, even though the matches were not played.[33] With the Wanderers disbanded, Ross retired as a player. His NHL career yielded one goal in three games played.[34]
Managerial career
1918–36
Ross began his career as a hockey coach in the midst of his playing days, when at age 25 he led the McGill University Redmen to a 4–2–1 record during the 1910–11 season.[35] In 1915, Art Ross was the Coach of The Canadian Grenadier Guards Hockey Club. Following his playing career, Ross became an NHL referee.[36] He was hired to coach the Hamilton Tigers for the 1922–23 season, and adopted new methods in training camp that emphasized physical fitness, including work off the ice.[37] However, the Tigers finished with a record of six wins and eighteen losses, last in the NHL for the third successive year, and Ross did not return the next season.[38] His next coaching appointment arose from meeting Boston grocery store magnate Charles Adams during the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals. Before the 1924 season, the NHL awarded Adams an expansion team. Adams' first move was to hire Ross as vice president, general manager, coach and scout.[39][40] Adams instructed Ross to come up with a nickname portraying an untamed animal displaying speed, agility and cunning. With this in mind, Ross named the team the Boston Bruins, after the Old English word for a bear. The team's nickname went perfectly with the original colours of brown and yellow, which were the same colours of Adams' grocery chain, First National Stores.[41]
Ross utilized his many hockey connections throughout Canada and the United States to sign players. Even so, the team started poorly.
In 1926 the
On March 26, 1931, Ross substituted a sixth skater for goaltender Tiny Thompson in the final minute of play in a playoff game against the Montreal Canadiens. Although the Bruins lost the game 1–0, Ross became the first coach to replace his goaltender with an extra attacker, a tactic which became widespread practice in hockey.[47] Stepping aside as coach in 1934 to focus on managing the team, Ross hired Frank Patrick as coach with a salary of $10,500, which was high for such a role.[47] However rumours spread during the season that Patrick was drinking heavily and not being as strict with the players as Ross wanted. After the Bruins lost their playoff series with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1936 playoffs, the result of an 8–1 score in the second game, a newspaper claimed that Patrick had been drinking the day of the game and had trouble controlling the team. Several days later, Ross relieved Patrick of his duties and once again assumed the role of coach.[51]
1936–54
Ross took over an improved team. He had recently signed three players,
On November 11, 1943, Art Ross became the first NHL coach to pull the goaltender for an extra attacker when he pulled goaltender Bert Gardiner for an extra attacker to go for the tie against the Chicago Blackhawks. Clint Smith score the first empty-net goal in NHL history and the Bruins lost 6–4.
In 1949, Ross had signed Georges Boucher as coach, but Boucher did not work well with Ross and team president Weston Adams.[53] Looking to hire a new coach in the summer of 1950, Ross phoned Lynn Patrick, the son of Lester, who had just resigned from the New York Rangers after coaching the team to the Stanley Cup Finals. Lynn had moved his family back to Victoria, British Columbia, where he grew up as a child, with the intention of coaching the Victoria Cougars, a team in the minor professional Pacific Coast Hockey League.[54] Though reluctant to move back to the eastern United States, Lynn was hired by Ross after he was offered a salary of $12,000.[55] He would coach the team for the next four seasons and become the second general manager of the Bruins when Ross retired at the end of October 1954.[56]
Legacy
Aside from his career in hockey, Ross was interested in improving the game. Prior to the start of the 1927–28 season, the NHL adopted a new style of goal net created by Ross. With the back molded into a B-shape, it was better designed to catch pucks and the net was used until 1984, when a modified version was adopted.[57] He also improved the design of the puck. Ross' design had bevel edges, which prevented it bouncing too much, and used synthetic rubber, rather than the natural rubber previously in vogue.[13][14] Along with New York Rangers coach Frank Boucher, Ross helped to create the red line, which was introduced to help speed up the game by removing the ability for defenders to pass the puck from the defensive to offensive zone; until 2006 it was against the rules of hockey to make a two-line pass. More scoring chances resulted as teams could not simply send the puck down the ice with impunity.[58] In order to help tell the red line and blue lines apart on television, Ross suggested that the red line be striped.[59]
Regarded throughout his playing career as one of the best defenders in hockey, Ross was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1949, selected for his playing career rather than his work as an executive.[13] A ceremony for his induction was held prior to a Bruins game on December 2, 1949, where he was given his Hall of Fame scroll and a silver tray with the emblems of the six NHL teams on it.[59] In 1975 he was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.[60] Along with his two sons he donated the Art Ross Trophy to the NHL in 1947, to be awarded to the leading scorer in the league's regular season.[61] In 1984 he was posthumously awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for service to hockey in the United States.[22]
Personal life
After graduating from high school in 1903, Ross began working at Merchants Bank, and occasionally played for their hockey team. When he moved to Brandon Ross transferred to a local branch.
On April 14, 1915, Ross married Muriel Kay, a native of Montreal; they had two sons, Arthur, Jr. and John.[66] During the Second World War, both sons served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After the war Ross made his son Art the business manager for the Bruins.[67] Ross was named coach and manager of the Boston Bruins in 1924 and moved his family to Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, after being hired.[67] He became a naturalized American citizen on April 22, 1938.[68] On August 5, 1964, Ross died at a nursing home in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, at the age of 79. A sister, both his sons, and three grandchildren survived him.[67]
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Regular season
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
1902–03 | Montreal Westmount | CAHL-I | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1903–04 | Montreal Westmount | CAHL-I | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1904–05 | Montreal Westmount | CAHL | 8 | 10 | 0 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1905–06 | Brandon Wheat City | MHL | 7 | 6 | 0 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1906–07 | Kenora Thistles | St-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||
1906–07 | Brandon Wheat City | MPHL | 10 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||
1907–08 | Montreal Wanderers | ECAHA | 10 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1907–08 | Montreal Wanderers | St-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 23 | ||
1907–08 | Pembroke Lumber Kings | UOVHL | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1908–09
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Montreal Wanderers | ECAHA | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1908–09 | Montreal Wanderers | St-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||
1908–09 | Cobalt Silver Kings | TPHL | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
1909–10 | All-Montreal HC
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CHA
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4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1909–10 | Haileybury Comets | NHA | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1910–11 | Montreal Wanderers | NHA | 11 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1911–12 | Montreal Wanderers | NHA | 18 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1911–12 | NHA All-Stars | Exhib | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1912–13 | Montreal Wanderers | NHA | 19 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1912–13 | NHA All-Stars | Exhib | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1913–14 | Montreal Wanderers | NHA | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 74 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1914–15 | Ottawa Senators | NHA | 16 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 55 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 | ||
1914–15 | Ottawa Senators | St-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1915–16 | Ottawa Senators | NHA | 21 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 69 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1916–17 | Montreal Wanderers | NHA | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 66 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1917–18 | Montreal Wanderers | NHL | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
ECAHA totals | 19 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
NHA totals | 131 | 56 | 16 | 72 | 406 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 | ||||
NHL totals | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |
- Career stats from Total Hockey[69]
Coaching record
Regular season
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Season | Team | League | GC | W | L | T | Finish | GC | W | L | T | Result | ||
1917–18 | Montreal Wanderers | NHL | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4th, NHL | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1922–23 | Hamilton Tigers | NHL | 24 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 4th, NHL | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1924–25 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 30 | 6 | 24 | 0 | 6th, NHL | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1925–26 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 36 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 4th, NHL | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1926–27 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 44 | 21 | 20 | 3 | 2nd, American | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Lost in finals | ||
1927–28 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 44 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 1st, American | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Lost in semifinals | ||
1928–29
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Boston Bruins | NHL | 44 | 26 | 13 | 5 | 1st, American | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Won Stanley Cup | ||
1929–30 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 44 | 38 | 5 | 1 | 1st, American | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Lost in finals | ||
1930–31 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 44 | 28 | 10 | 6 | 1st, American | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | Lost in semifinals | ||
1931–32 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 48 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 4th, American | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1932–33 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 48 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 1st, American | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | Lost in semifinals | ||
1933–34 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 48 | 18 | 25 | 5 | 4th, American | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1936–37 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 48 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 2nd, American | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | Lost in quarterfinals | ||
1937–38 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 48 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 1st, American | 3 | 0 | 3 | — | Lost in semifinals | ||
1938–39 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 48 | 36 | 10 | 2 | 1st, NHL | 12 | 8 | 4 | — | Won Stanley Cup | ||
1941–42 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 48 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 3rd, NHL | 5 | 2 | 3 | — | Lost in semifinals | ||
1942–43 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 50 | 24 | 17 | 9 | 2nd, NHL | 9 | 4 | 5 | — | Lost in finals | ||
1943–44 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 50 | 19 | 26 | 5 | 5th, NHL | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1944–45 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 50 | 16 | 30 | 4 | 4th, NHL | 7 | 3 | 4 | — | Lost in semifinals | ||
NHL totals | 802 | 394 | 313 | 95 | — | 70 | 32 | 33 | 5 | Two Stanley Cups |
- Coaching stats from Total Hockey[70]
Awards
NHL
Award | Year(s) |
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First All-Star team Coach | 1939 |
Second All-Star team Coach | 1938, 1943 |
Lester Patrick Trophy | 1984 |
*Awards from Legends of Hockey[22]
References
Notes
- ^ a b The date of Ross's birth is disputed. Many sources give the year of his birth as 1886. However Eric Zweig has noted this is unlikely, and has cited contemporary newspaper reports and archival materials to support 1885. The 1885 date was also used on the headstone of Ross's grave when it was replaced in 2014. See Zweig 2015, p. 21.
- ^ Some sources give the erroneous date of 1945.
- ^ Zweig notes that Ross was likely not born in the town of Naughton itself, but was listed as it was "the closest white settlement to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) post" that the family lived at. Zweig suggests Ross was likely born at the post itself. See Zweig 2015, p. 22.
- ^ Simon Peter; George Munro; Thomas Robert; Charles William; Sybil, Roderick Reddie; Alexander Sinclair; Colin Eric; Arthur Howey; and Donald Walter. See Zweig 2015, pp. 23–25.
Citations
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 26
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 22
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 24
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 25
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 30
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 31
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 33
- ^ Zweig 2015, pp. 31–32
- ^ Zweig 2015, pp. 35–37
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 39
- ^ McKinley 2000, p. 78
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 14
- ^ a b c d e Hockey Hall of Fame 2010.
- ^ a b c d Diamond 2003, p. 1964
- ^ McKinley 2009, p. 51
- ^ Podnieks 2004, p. 40
- ^ Podnieks 2000, p. 4
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 27
- ^ McKinley 2009, p. 58
- ^ McKinley 2009, pp. 62–63
- ^ Hughes et al. 2003, p. 23
- ^ a b c Hockey Hall of Fame Stats 2010.
- ^ Weir, Chapman & Weir 1999, p. 91
- ^ a b Weir, Chapman & Weir 1999, p. 92
- ^ a b Weir, Chapman & Weir 1999, pp. 92–93
- ^ Kitchen 2008, p. 180
- ^ Weir, Chapman & Weir 1999, p. 93
- ^ McKinley 1993, p. 38
- ^ Weir, Chapman & Weir 1999, p. 125
- ^ Kitchen 2008, p. 192
- ^ Duff 2017, p. 66
- ^ Boswell, Randy (April 16, 2017). "Solving the mystery of the NHL's 1st game". CBC News. Archived from the original on March 19, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
- ^ Holzman & Nieforth 2002, pp. 169–70
- ^ Duff 2017, p. 115
- ^ "McGill Athletics & Recreation". www.mcgillathletics.ca. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
- ^ Diamond 2003, p. 194
- ^ Wesley & Wesley 2005, p. 53
- ^ Wesley & Wesley 2005, p. 94
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 42
- ^ a b Diamond 2003, p. 203
- ISBN 1-895629-74-8.
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 54
- ^ McKinley 2000, p. 119
- ^ a b c d e National Hockey League 2009, p. 164
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, pp. 57–58
- ^ Hughes et al. 2003, p. 76
- ^ a b c d e f Diamond 2003, p. 204
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 200.
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 58
- ^ National Hockey League 2009, p. 165
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 76
- ^ Associated Press 1941, p. 29.
- ^ Associated Press 1950, p. 21.
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 108
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 77
- ^ Goyens & Orr 2000, p. 113
- ^ Hughes et al. 2003, p. 70
- ^ McKinley 2009, p. 139
- ^ a b Hockey Hall of Fame 2003, p. 16
- ^ Canada's Sports Hall of Fame 2011.
- ^ Podnieks 2005, p. 56
- ^ Zweig 2015, pp. 41–42
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 48
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 85
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 197
- ^ Zweig 2015, p. 82
- ^ a b c Canadian Press 1964, p. 13.
- ^ Associated Press 1938, p. 12.
- ^ Diamond 2003, p. 798
- ^ Diamond 2003, p. 1943
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External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or Legends of Hockey, or The Internet Hockey Database
- Art Ross's biography at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame