Harold Clarence "Mush" March (October 18, 1908 – January 9, 2002) was a Canadian

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player in the

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. He is best remembered for scoring the game-winning goal in the second overtime of game four of the

1934 Stanley Cup Finals The 1934 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the Chicago Black Hawks and the Detroit Red Wings. It was the Red Wings' first appearance in the Finals, and Chicago's second, after 1931. The Black Hawks won the best-of-five series 3–1 to win their ...

to lift the

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to a 3-1 series triumph.

Playing career

March was a right winger who played for seventeen seasons, all with the

, from 1928–29 to 1944–45. During that span, he played 759 games, scoring 153 goals and 230 assists, for 383 points. 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

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in 1931. He kept the puck and dropped it at the Gardens final game in 1999.

Awards and achievements

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maxi ...

Stanley Cup champion (

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) * 1938 Stanley Cup champion (Chicago) *Scored the first goal in the long history of

on November 12,

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

. On February 13, 1999 as part of the final game played at the Gardens (also between the Maple Leafs and Blackhawks), he officiated at the ceremonial opening faceoff - with the very same puck that he had used to score that first goal almost 68 years before. *He became the second recorded player in hockey history to win the Stanley Cup for his team on an overtime goal. *He was the last surviving member of Black Hawks 1934 Stanley Cup team.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:March, Mush 1908 births 2002 deaths Canadian ice hockey right wingers Chicago Blackhawks players Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan Stanley Cup champions Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States