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Jean Baptiste (Jack) Laviolette

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. Jean Baptiste Laviolette was born on 27 July 1879 in Belleville, Ontario. He had played 12 professional seasons from 1903 to 1918. He was nicknamed as Jack.

He began his organized hockey career in the Montreal City League and moved to the Montreal Nationals of the Federal Amateur Hockey League in 1904, finishing sixth in league scoring with eight goals in six games. He moved on to the Michigan Soo Indians of the International Hockey League the following season where he scored 40 goals over three seasons and was named to the IHL, International Hockey League First All-Star Team in 1905 and 1907 along with a being made a Second Team selection in 1906. He returned to Montreal in the fall of 1907 to play for the Shamrocks of the Eastern Canadian Amateur Hockey Association for two seasons before joining the National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens in their inaugural season from 1909 to 1910.

He played on his only Stanley Cup winning team in 1915 to 1916 when the Canadiens defeated the Portland Rosebuds 3-2 in a best of five series hosted by Montreal. The series marked the first time that an American-based team had played for the Cup. He played for two more seasons before an off-season accident ended his hockey career.

Unfortunately, Jack Laviolette died on 10 January 1960. He was later inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as a lacrosse player. He was also was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the year 1962.

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