Tom Hooper (ice hockey)

Tom Hooper
Hockey Hall of Fame, 1963
Born (1883-11-24)November 24, 1883
Kenora, ON, CAN
Died March 24, 1960(1960-03-24) (aged 76)
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 175 lb (79 kg; 12 st 7 lb)
Position Centre
Shot Right
Played for Montreal Hockey Club
Montreal Wanderers
Kenora Thistles
Playing career 19021908
Hooper with the Rat Portage Thistles around 1900.

Charles Thomas Hooper (November 24, 1883 – March 24, 1960) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Kenora Thistles, Montreal Hockey Club, and Montreal Wanderers. Hooper was a Stanley Cup winner with the Thistles in 1907 and the Wanderers in 1908. Noted for his skating speed, checking and stick-handling ability, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963.[1]

Playing career

Hooper was born in the village of Rat Portage, later renamed Kenora, in north-western Ontario, Canada. He first played organized hockey for a local high school. The high school team was very talented, good enough to defeat Rat Portage's senior ice hockey team. In 1896, at the age of thirteen, Hooper joined the Rat Portage senior hockey team where he would play until 1908. During his years with the club, the Thistles won three league titles and challenged for the Stanley Cup three times, in 1903 and 1905 against Ottawa, and 1907 against the Montreal Wanderers. The team won the Cup in January 1907, in part due to Hooper's three goals in the second game of the two-game total-goals series. The team went on to defend the Stanley Cup as league champions, but lost the title in March 1907 to the same Wanderers. Hooper missed the March series rematch due to a fractured collarbone.

The Thistles folded after one game in January 1908 and Hooper joined the Montreal Wanderers. He only played two season games with the Wanderers and two Stanley Cup challenge games before he got his release from the team. He had been moved to the cover-point defence position by the Wanderers from his career forward position and lost the starting job to Walter Smaill.[2] He signed with the Montreal Hockey Club for the rest of the season, where he played rover. Hooper's play in the 1907–08 season was considered by hockey writers to not be up to the standard of his previous years due to his fitness. He retired after the season.

Awards

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1901–02 Rat Portage Thistles MNWHA-Int 8 9 0 9 17
1902–03 Rat Portage Thistles MNWHA 5 5 1 6
1902–03 Rat Portage Thistles St-Cup 2 0 0 0 0
1903–04 Rat Portage Thistles MNWHA 10 2 1 3
1904–05 Rat Portage Thistles MHA 8 9 0 9
1904–05 Rat Portage Thistles St-Cup 3 2 0 2 12
1905–06 Kenora Thistles MHA 9 4 0 4
1906–07 Kenora Thistles MPHL 3 4 0 4 2 0 0 0 11
1906–07 Kenora Thistles St-Cup 3 3 0 3 0
1907–08 Pembroke Lumber Kings UOVHL 1 0 0 0 0
1907–08 Montreal HC ECAHA 7 9 0 9 5
1907–08 Montreal Wanderers ECAHA 2 1 0 1 0
1907–08 Montreal Wanderers St-Cup 2 1 0 1 0
MHA/MPHL totals 20 17 0 17
St-Cup totals 10 5 0 5 15

References

  1. 1 2 Hockey Hall of Fame 2003, p. 55.
  2. "Wanderers 7, Victorias 5". Montreal Gazette. January 16, 1908. p. 2.

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