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Derived from an article by Larry Oatman
Professional hockey may be the most physically challenging of all sports.The
strenuous leg exertion - the grueling player contact - the playing arena coldness
- the ice hardness, all takes their toll on the player. The professional
career is fewer than a dozen years. Bobby Hull's 20-year career is exceptional.
To play 32 years in the demanding sport should be impossible, yet that is the
extraordinary accomplishment of Eddie Oatman.
While there is relatively little known about his personal life,
the Internet did reveal information about his hockey career. Though Eddie
never played in the National Hockey League, he was among the elite goal scorers
of his era. During his 32 years (1907-39) playing professional ice hockey, Eddie
was picked 10 straight years as an all-star with the Pacific Coast Hockey
Association (PCHA). He was a star with the Quebec Bulldogs when it won the 1912
Stanley Cup. Eddie played with clubs that won five league championships, and he
was a successful coach and captain of five different hockey teams.
Born in 1889 in Springford, Ontario, Eddie began playing organized hockey at age 10 and
continued for the next eight years in youth leagues in his hometown. His
professional hockey career began in 1907 with the Tillsonburg (Ontario) Junior
Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). The next year he played with the Simcoe
Intermediate OHA and, in 1909, he played with the Cleveland, Ohio,
club. The next season he played on a line with Joe Malone and Jack McDonald for
Waterloo of the Ontario Professional Hockey League. When Quebec was admitted
into the National Hockey Association the following year, the three played with
the Bulldogs and helped win the 1912 Stanley Cup. Because of that championship,
he and every member of the Bulldogs were offered a contract by PCHA teams.
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32 Pro Seasons
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Born: June 10, 1889, Sprinford, Ontario
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Died: November 5, 1973
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- Nickname: Eddie
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NHA Teams: Rosebuds, Bulldogs, Cougars, Tigers
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