Jack Walker (ice hockey)

Jack Walker
Hockey Hall of Fame, 1960
Born (1888-11-28)November 28, 1888
Silver Mountain, Ontario, Canada
Died February 16, 1950(1950-02-16) (aged 61)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight 153 lb (69 kg; 10 st 13 lb)
Position Forward
Shot Left
Played for Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Eskimos
Detroit Cougars
Victoria Cougars
Seattle Metropolitans
Moncton Victorias
Toronto Blueshirts
Port Arthur Lake City
Playing career 1907–1933
Walker, third from the right in the back row, with the 1913–14 Toronto Blueshirts.

John Phillip "Jack" Walker (November 29, 1888 – February 16, 1950) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Toronto Blueshirts, Seattle Metropolitans, Victoria Cougars, and Detroit Cougars.

Biography

Walker, in the upper right corner, with the 1916–17 Seattle Metropolitans.

Born in Silver Mountain, Ontario Walker grew up in Port Arthur, Ontario where his parents had lived since 1870. He played with various Port Arthur teams in the New Ontario Hockey League (NOHL). On March 16, 1911 he and teammate Eddie Carpenter played for the Port Arthur Hockey Club against the Ottawa Senators of the NHA for the Stanley Cup. Carpenter and Walker each scored a goal but the Port Arthur team lost 4-13. During the 1912–13 season, Walker and Carpenter played for the Moncton Victorias of the MaPHL.

Walker helped the 1914 Toronto Blueshirts, 1917 Seattle Metropolitans, and 1925 Victoria Cougars all win Stanley Cups in his career. Teammates on all three Cup winning teams were goaltender Hap Holmes and forward Frank Foyston. Walker is one of only 11 players in Stanley Cup history to win the Cup with three or more different teams.[1]

Walker was a prominent two-way player who could make a difference at both ends of the rink, and he is often credited with introducing the hook check (a defensive technique in which the player sweeps his stick low to the ice in an effort to remove the puck from an opponent's stick) to the game of hockey.[2]

He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960.[3]

After his playing career Walker stayed on the West Coast where he was active as an ice hockey coach, and he finally settled down in Seattle where he died on February 16, 1950 at an age of 61.

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1907–08 Port Arthur Lake City NOHL 6 3 0 3 — — — — — —
1908–09 Port Arthur Lake City NOHL 12 8 0 8 — — — — — —
1909–10 Port Arthur Lake City NOHL 12 20 0 20 21 — — — — —
1910–11 Port Arthur Lake City NOHL 14 30 0 30 — 2 2 0 2 0
1910–11 Port Arthur Lake City St-Cup — — — — — 1 1 0 1 0
1911–12 Port Arthur Lake City NOHL 13 17 0 17 — 2 3 0 3 0
1912–13 Toronto Blueshirts NHA 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
1912–13 Moncton Victorias MPHL 15 21 0 21 9 — — — — —
1913–14 Toronto Blueshirts NHA 20 20 16 36 17 2 3 0 3 2
1913–14 Toronto Blueshirts St-Cup — — — — — 2 3 0 3 2
1914–15 Toronto Blueshirts NHA 19 12 7 19 11 — — — — —
1915–16 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 18 13 6 19 6 — — — — —
1916–17 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 24 11 15 26 3 — — — — —
1916–17 Seattle Metropolitans St-Cup — — — — — 4 1 2 3 0
1917–18 Port Arthur Lake City NOHL 8 22 0 22 – — — — — —
1918–19 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 20 9 6 15 9 2 0 2 2 0
1918–19 Seattle Metropolitans St-Cup — — — — — 5 3 0 3 9
1919–20 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 22 4 8 12 3 2 1 1 2 0
1919–20 Seattle Metropolitans St-Cup — — — — — 5 1 3 4 0
1920–21 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 23 6 4 10 6 2 0 0 0 0
1921–22 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 20 8 4 12 0 2 0 0 0 0
1922–23 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 29 13 10 23 4 — — — — —
1923–24 Seattle Metropolitans PCHA 29 18 5 23 0 2 0 1 1 0
1924–25 Victoria Cougars WCHL 28 7 7 14 6 4 4 0 4 0
1924–25 Victoria Cougars St-Cup — — — — — 4 4 2 6 0
1925–26 Victoria Cougars WHL 30 9 8 17 16 4 0 0 0 2
1925–26 Victoria Cougars St-Cup — — — — — 4 0 0 0 0
1926–27 Detroit Cougars NHL 37 3 4 7 6 — — — — —
1927–28 Detroit Cougars NHL 43 2 4 6 12 — — — — —
1928–29 Seattle Seahawks PCHL 34 5 8 13 4 5 0 2 2 2
1929–30 Seattle Eskimos PCHL 26 6 11 17 2 — — — — —
1930–31 Seattle Eskimos PCHL 34 2 13 15 8 4 0 3 3 0
NHL totals 80 5 8 13 18 — — — — —
PCHA totals 186 82 58 140 31 10 1 4 5 0
St-Cup totals — — — — — 26 11 7 18 12

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Players on Stanley-Cup Winning Teams". Retrieved 2010-04-13.
  2. ↑ Biography hhof.com
  3. ↑ Jack Walker hhof.com


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