Position: | Right Wing |
Shoots: | Right |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 5 |
Weight Lb: | 154 |
Played For: | Chicago Black Hawks |
Birth Date: | 18 October 1908 |
Birth Place: | Silton, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Death Place: | Paxton, Illinois, United States |
Career Start: | 1928 |
Career End: | 1945 |
Harold Clarence "Mush" March (October 18, 1908 – January 9, 2002) was a Canadian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League.[1] He is best remembered for scoring the game-winning goal in the second overtime of game four of the 1934 Stanley Cup Finals to lift the Chicago Black Hawks to a 3-1 series triumph.[2]
March was a right winger who played for seventeen seasons, all with the Chicago Black Hawks, from 1928–29 to 1944–45.[3] During that span, he played 759 games, scoring 153 goals and 230 assists, for 383 points.[4] Since the Black Hawks were not an overly successful team during most of those 17 years, March only played in a total of 45 playoff games, but he made the most of those 45 games by scoring 12 goals, 15 assists for 27 points. He also scored the first-ever goal at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931.[5] He kept the puck and dropped it at the Gardens final game in 1999.
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
1925–26 | Regina Falcons | S-SJHL | 8 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1925–26 | Regina Falcons | M-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | ||
1926–27 | Regina Falcons | S-SJHL | 5 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1927–28 | Regina Monarchs | S-SJHL | 5 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | ||
1927–28 | Regina Monarchs | M-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | 36 | 4 | 40 | 8 | ||
1928–29 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 35 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1929–30 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 43 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1930–31 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 44 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | ||
1931–32 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1932–33 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 38 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1933–34 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||
1934–35 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 13 | 17 | 30 | 48 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1935–36 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 16 | 19 | 35 | 42 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
1936–37 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 37 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1937–38 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 41 | 11 | 17 | 28 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | ||
1938–39 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 46 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1939–40 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 45 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 49 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
1940–41 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 44 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
1941–42 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 6 | 26 | 32 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
1942–43 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 50 | 7 | 29 | 36 | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1943–44 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 48 | 10 | 27 | 37 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
1944–45 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 38 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
NHL totals | 759 | 153 | 230 | 383 | 540 | 45 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 41 |