Peter Green or Greene (March 13, 1868 – September 22, 1934) was a Canadian professional
ice hockey
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coach and trainer with the
Ottawa Hockey Club/Ottawa Senators. Green won ten Stanley Cup titles in his time with Ottawa, four as a trainer, and six as a coach. Green also was a trainer with the
Ottawa Football Club and in
lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...
.
Career
Peter Green began his athletic career with the Ottawa Capitals field lacrosse team as a player in 1890.
He would later become their trainer and coach. He coached the Ottawa Rough Riders football team from 1900 to 1903,
during which they won two Canadian championships.
In 1905, Green was hired by the
Ottawa Hockey Club or "Silver Seven" as a trainer.
In 1908, he was promoted to head coach to replace
Alf Smith, who left to join the
Kenora Thistles
The Kenora Thistles, officially the Thistles Hockey Club, were a Canadian ice hockey team based in Kenora, Ontario. Founded in 1894, they were originally known as the Rat Portage Thistles. The team competed for the Stanley Cup, the ice hock ...
. Under his tenure, Ottawa won the Stanley Cup three times. The
1908–09 team went 10–2 to win the
Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA_ title and the Cup for the first time in three years as champion of the
Eastern Canada Hockey Association. The team won two challenges during the 1909-10 season, to earn the Stanley Cup title again, only to lose the Cup to the Montreal Wanderers who won the regular season title. The team won the 1910-11 regular season title to regain the Stanley Cup. They then successfully defended it in two Stanley Cup challenges. The team went 9–9 in the following
1911–12 season and lost the chance to tie for the league title with the
Quebec Bulldogs after losing a replayed game to end the year. They went 9-11 in the
1912–13 season, tied for third with two other teams. Green left Ottawa after the season, having gone 50-28 in five seasons.
In
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...
, he was re-hired to coach the Ottawa Senators, now of the
National Hockey League
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(NHL). Green won three more
Stanley Cups as a coach in
1920,
1921, and
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera ...
. He is one of eleven coaches to have won the
Stanley Cup three times with an NHL club, and he did so on the strength of six playoff appearances, the least among the eleven to have won three. Owing to his short tenure, he has the least games managed among the eleven, but his winning percentage is second best among the eleven, although Green is the only one to not be inducted into the
Hockey Hall of Fame.
Green was a long-time employee of the Canadian Post Office before retiring in 1933.
He died at an Ottawa hospital aged 66 after a short illness (heart condition) on September 22, 1934, five years after his wife died.
[Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947] His funeral at the Blessed Sacrament Church of Ottawa was attended by many of the Ottawa hockey club players he had coached. He was buried in the Prescott Catholic cemetery where his wife was already interred.
They had no children.
NHL coaching record
References
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1868 births
1934 deaths
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Ottawa Senators coaches
Sportspeople from Montreal
Stanley Cup champions
Ottawa Senators (original) personnel
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