Joe Hall
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| Born | May 3, 1881 Staffordshire, England, GBR |
| Died | April 5, 1919 (aged 37) Seattle, WA, USA |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 175 lb (79 kg; 12 st 7 lb) |
| Position | Defence |
| Shot | Right |
| Played for | Montreal Canadiens Quebec Bulldogs Montreal Shamrocks Montreal Wanderers |
| Playing career | 1909–1919 |
| Hall of Fame, 1961 | |
Joseph Henry Hall (May 3, 1881 – April 5, 1919), nicknamed Bad Joe Hall, was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played professionally from 1904 until 1919 when he died as a result of the influenza epidemic of 1918. He won the Stanley Cup twice with the Quebec Bulldogs and once with the Kenora Thistles.
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Playing career [edit]
Hall was born in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom and grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. He played in the Manitoba Hockey Association with the Brandon Wheat Kings, Winnipeg Rowing Club and the Kenora Thistles, and in the National Hockey Association as a member of the Quebec Bulldogs. He played for the Montreal Canadiens in their first two seasons in the National Hockey League from 1917-1919.
Hall won the Stanley Cup with the Kenora Thistles in 1907, for which he received a 'loving cup' which is on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He won the Cup with the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912 and 1913. He also challenged for the Stanley Cup in 1904 with the Winnipeg Rowing Club.
1919 Stanley Cup Final [edit]
In 1919, he was part of the Montreal Canadiens team that made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Finals were interrupted and eventually cancelled due to an outbreak of Spanish influenza. The flu was contracted by several players on both the Canadiens and their opponents, the Seattle Metropolitans. Hall would eventually succumb to pneumonia, related to his influenza, in a hospital in Seattle, Washington just five days after the Stanley Cup Final series was abandoned.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961.
Career statistics [edit]
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1902–03 | Brandon HC | MNWHA | 6 | 8 | 0 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| 1903–04 | Winnipeg Rowing Club | MHL Sr. | 6 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 10 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Winnipeg Rowing Club | St. Cup | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -- | |||
| 1904–05 | Brandon Wheat Cities | MHL Sr. | 10 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1905–06 | Portage Lake-Houghton | IHL | 20 | 33 | 0 | 33 | 98 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1906–07 | Brandon Wheat Cities | MHL Pro | 9 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 32 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Kenora Thistles | St. Cup | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| 1907–08 | Montreal HC | ECAHA | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Montreal Shamrocks | ECAHA | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| 1908–09 | Montreal Wanderers | ECHA | 5 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Edmonton Pros | Exh. | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Winnipeg Maple Leafs | MHL Pro | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |||
| Montreal Wanderers | Exh. | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| 1910 | Montreal Shamrocks | NHA | 10 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 47 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Montreal Shamrocks | CHA | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| 1910–11 | Quebec Bulldogs | NHA | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1911–12 | Quebec Bulldogs | NHA | 18 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 43 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Quebec Bulldogs | St. Cup | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 1912–13 | Quebec Bulldogs | NHA | 18 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 78 | 2 | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | ||
| Quebec Bulldogs | St. Cup | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
| 1913–14 | Quebec Bulldogs | NHA | 19 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 61 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1914–15 | Quebec Bulldogs | NHA | 20 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 52 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1915–16 | Quebec Bulldogs | NHA | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 89 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1916–17 | Quebec Bulldogs | NHA | 19 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 95 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1917–18 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 21 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 100 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||
| 1918–19 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 17 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 89 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | ||
| NHL totals | 38 | 15 | 8 | 23 | 189 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 | ||||
Awards and achievements [edit]
- IHL First Team All-Star (1906)
- Stanley Cup Championships (1907 - Kenora 1912 & 1913 - Quebec)
- Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961
- “Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
In fiction [edit]
- In Roy MacGregor's The Ghost of the Stanley Cup in his The Screech Owls series of hockey books, "Bad" Joe Hall is named as the haunting spirit.
See also [edit]
- List of ice hockey players who died during their playing career
- List of National Hockey League players born in the United Kingdom
External links [edit]
- 1882 births
- 1919 deaths
- Deaths from the 1918 flu pandemic
- English emigrants to Canada
- Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
- Ice hockey people from Manitoba
- Montreal Canadiens players
- Montreal Shamrocks players
- Montreal Wanderers players
- People from Brandon, Manitoba
- Portage Lakes Hockey Club players
- Quebec Bulldogs players
- Stanley Cup champions
