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Cyril Joseph (Cy) Denneny

NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It’s divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. The league was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec and it is composed of 24 teams based in U.S. and 6 in Canada. They have a regular season and playoffs leading to the Stanley Cup, which is the NHL Championship final.

Denneny was born on 23rd December 1897 in Farrow's Point, Ontario. He played in the local county league between 1910 and 1912 before becoming a professional hockey player. After spending the 1912 and 1913 season with the Russell team of the Lower Ottawa Valley league, he played for the O'Brien Mine team of the Cobalt Mining League. His play was a big reason the club won the CML championship that year. He was elected into the Hockey Hall of Famers in 1959.

In 1914 and 1915, he played for the Toronto Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association, NHA, where he starred scoring six goals in eight games. While playing for the Senators, he saw the franchise become one of the founding members of the NHL in 1917 and win the Stanley Cup four times in the 1920s. In the 1917 1918 season, he finished with a career high of 36 goals in 20 matches but still trailed the Canadiens' 44 goal scorer Joe Malone.

Cyril Denneny is remembered as a powerful skater with a lethal shot who back-checked responsibly and played the game cleanly. He, with all his dedication and devotion in his play has achieved many goals in his overall hockey-playing career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.

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