Bruce Stuart
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Originally Posted by The Pittsburgh Press, March 8, 1907
Bruce Stuart is not any more lamblike than his brother Hod. The Stuart boys never run away from trouble.
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Stuart is huge (at 6'2, he was the tallest hockey player in his era), fast, physical, a great leader, and a clutch scorer. He's exactly what a pair of highly skilled but small players like Russell Bowie and Martin St. Louis need on their left side.
Top 5 finishes
CAHL (1900-1902)
Goals: 5th, 5th
No assists recorded
WPHL (1903)
Goals: 1st
Assists: 5th
Points: 1st
X-Games (1904)
Goals: 2nd
Playoff goals: 1st
No Assists recorded
Playoff PIM: 1st
IHL (1905-1907)
Goals: 4th
Assists only recorded once
PIM: 1st, 1st
ECHA (1908-1910)
Goals: 3rd
Assists: 2nd (only recorded once)
Points: 3rd
Playoff goals: 1st
- First Team All Star (WPHL) in 1902, First Team All Star (IHL) in 1906, Second Team All Star (IHL) in 1907
- Regularly captained his teams in the IHL
- Won a Stanley Cup with the Montreal Wanderers in 1908
- Sighed by the Ottawa Senators after winning with the Wanderers
- Captained the 1909 Senators to the Stanley Cup, their first Cup since Silver Seven stopped dominating in 1906.
- After the Senators lost the Cup in 1910 to the Wanderers, Bruce Stuart, as captain, was "given free hand in the selection of players for next winter." (Source)
- Stuart captained his handpicked team to another Cup win in 1911.
Inducted into the HHOF in 1961
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Stuart is considered to be an early power forward, a forward who combines physical play with scoring ability, in hockey history.
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Originally Posted by legendsofhockey
Stuart could well be considered one of the first power forwards of the game. Standing over six feet tall, he was a large man for his era, and it should not go unnoticed that his statistical totals included 162 penalty minutes over the same three-year period.
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Originally Posted by legendsofhockey
He was an all-round player, capable of playing any of the forward positions although he excelled as a rover due to his excellent skating abilities.
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Stuart was a big, rough man, but he was also capable of handling the puck:
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Originally Posted by The Montreal Gazette, Jan 7, 1909
Play was becoming rough, players from both sides getting after each other, apparently to settle old grudges, particularly Smith and Stuart. Stuart's face was covered with blood, but he continued to mix it up roughly until he was sent off for five minutes for dropping Smith with a crosscheck.
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Originally Posted by The Montreal Gazette, Feb 1, 1909
Ottawa in the first half looked better than at any time this season. Bruce Stuart played his best game of the year and was really the star of the Ottawa team in the night's play. He worked without a letup, although evidently suffering from his bad knee in the second half. He was the best puck carrier for Ottawa and bored in more successfully than any forward on the ice. Walsh and Stuart made a dangerous pair in mid-ice.
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