Moose Goheen Explained

Position:Left wing
Played For:Buffalo Majors
St. Paul Saints
White Bear Lakers
St. Paul Athletic Club
Ntl Team:USA
Shoots:Left
Height Ft:6
Height In:0
Weight Lb:220
Birth Date:8 February 1894
Birth Place:White Bear Lake, Minnesota, U.S.
Death Place:Maplewood, Minnesota, U.S.
Career Start:1914
Career End:1933
Halloffame:1952

Francis Xavier "Moose" Goheen (February 8, 1894  - November 13, 1979) was an American amateur ice hockey forward. While enrolled at the Valparaiso University,[1] Goheen was a skilled, three-sport athlete competing in football and baseball, in addition to hockey.[2] Goheen was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club team that won United States Amateur Hockey championship and received the MacNaughton Cup in the 1915–16 season. After that season, Goheen enlisted in the United States Army and served in the European theatre during World War I in the Army's signal corps.[3] After his service in the Army, Goheen returned to the St. Paul Athletic Club[4] and won a second league championship and MacNaughton Cup in 1920. Goheen also competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics as the captain and rover for the American ice hockey team,[5] which won the silver medal.[6] Outside of hockey, Goheen was dedicated to his career with the Northern States Power Company in St. Paul, so much so that he declined to play with United States Olympic hockey team in the 1924 Winter Olympics and spurned multiple contract offers to play in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins (in 1926) and Toronto Maple Leafs.[7]

In 1952, Moose Goheen was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame; at the time, he was only the second American to have been inducted (after Hobey Baker) and the first Minnesotan.[8] He was also elected to the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame in 1958 and to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973.[9] In 1924, in a 1–0 victory over Boston for the St. Paul Saints, Goheen scored a goal using a slap shot—the earliest record of the feat.

The White Bear Lake Area Hockey Association holds yearly tournaments in Goheen's name.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular seasonPlayoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGP PIMGP G A Pts PIM
1922–23St. Paul SaintsUSAHA20 11 0 11 4 3 0 3
1923–24St. Paul SaintsUSAHA20 10 4 14 8 3 1 4
1924–25St. Paul SaintsUSAHA32 6 0 6
1925–26St. Paul SaintsCHL36 13 10 23 87
1926–27St. Paul SaintsAHA27 2 7 9 40
1927–28St. Paul SaintsAHA39 19 5 24 96
1928–29St. Paul SaintsAHA28 7 4 11 398 2 0 2 20
1929–30St. Paul SaintsAHA35 9 6 15 47
1930–31Buffalo MajorsAHA2 0 0 0 0
1931–32St. Paul SaintsCHL20 2 7 9 17
AHA totals131 37 22 59 2228 2 0 2 20
USAHA totals72 27 4 31 12 4 3 7

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cameron . Steve . 2003 . Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Players . Buffalo, New York . Firefly Books . 9781770852242.
  2. Web site: Moose Goheen Biography . Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum . 2017-10-25.
  3. Book: MacLeod, Alan Livingstone. From Rinks to Regiments: Hockey Hall-of-Famers and the Great War. 2018. Heritage House. Victoria, British Columbia. 978-1-77203-268-0. 93.
  4. Web site: Moose Goheen . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418054413/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/moose-goheen-1.html . dead . 2020-04-18 . Sports Reference LLC . 2017-10-25.
  5. Web site: Moose Goheen . Olympedia . 21 August 2021.
  6. Book: Zeisler, Laurel . Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey . Scarecrow Press, Inc. . 2013 . 130–131 . 9780810878631 .
  7. Book: MacLeod. From Rinks to Regiments. 2018. 94.
  8. Web site: At the X, a museum worthy of the State of Hockey . St. Paul Pioneer Press . 2015-04-22 . 2017-10-25.
  9. Book: MacLeod. From Rinks to Regiments. 2018. 95.