William Francis Charles "Bill" Gooden (September 8, 1923 – December 17, 1998) was a

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ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

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who hit the 20-goal mark seven times in the AHL. He also played in 53 games for the

New York Rangers The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the New York City borough of Manhattan. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home ...

in the NHL during the 1940s.

Awards and achievements

MJHL The Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL) is a Junior 'A' ice hockey league operating in the Canadian province of Manitoba and one of nine member leagues of the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL). The MJHL consists of thirteen teams all based ...

Championship (1942) *

Memorial Cup The Memorial Cup () is the national championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the United States. It is a four-team round-robin tournament played between t ...

Championship (1942) * AHL Second All-Star Team (1951) *"Honoured Member" of the

Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum for ice hockey in Manitoba, located on the main level of the Canada Life Centre in downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1985, when the first honoured members were named ...

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* 1923 births 1998 deaths Clinton Comets players Fort Worth Rangers players New York Rangers players Portage Terriers players Ice hockey people from Winnipeg Winnipeg Maroons players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian ice hockey left wingers {{canada-icehockey-winger-1920s-stub