Hod Stuart
Hod Stuart was a Canadian professional ice hockey cover-point. He played nine seasons for several teams in different leagues. In 1907 he helped the Montreal Wanderers win the Stanley Cup. He died in a diving accident two months later. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961.
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Hod Stuart was a Canadian professional ice hockey cover-point. He played nine seasons for several teams in different leagues. In 1907 he helped the Montreal Wanderers win the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy for hockey. He died in a diving accident two months later. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961. He also played rugby and football, and played for the local professional football team, the Ottawa Rough Riders. Outside of hockey Stuart worked as a bricklayer, and later in his life he also worked with his father in construction. Stuart was said to have been a quiet person, and unlike other athletes of his era was not one to talk about his exploits, except with close friends. He had two brothers, Alex and Bruce, and two sisters, Jessie and Lottio. Stuart first joined a senior hockey team when he spent the winter of 1895–1896 with the Rat Portage Thistles, a team in northwestern Ontario. Along with his brother Bruce, Stuart joined the Ottawa Hockey Club of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League for the 1899 season. In 1902, the Pittsburgh Bankers of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League signed Stuart to a professional contract; this was disputed between the Bankers and the Pittsburgh Victorias, who also claimed him.
After one season in Pittsburgh, Stuart moved to the Portage Lakes Hockey Club, for the 1903–1904 season and played in fourteen exhibition games, finishing fourth on the team with thirteen goals scored. With the formation of the International Professional Hockey League, Stuart left Portage Lake for the Calumet Miners, where he scored eighteen goals in 1904–1905. On December 11, 1905, Stuart was named to the end of season all-star team as the best cover-star as the league, with the team winning the league championship. Once again he was named best cover point in the IPHL as he scored eleven goals in the 1905–06 season. A fluid skating man with a fluid stride, he was considered the finest defenceman for his era. Stuart became one of the first nine players to be inducted in the HockeyHall of Fame. His efforts were acknowledged when the Hockey hall of Fame was created in 1945 and he was one of three brothers to join him.
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