Frank McGee (ice hockey)
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Francis "Frank" McGee (1879, Ottawa, Ontario - died September 16, 1916) was a legendary ice hockey player during the early days of hockey for the Ottawa Silver Seven. Although his senior career was very brief - only 45 games over four seasons - he led the Silver Seven to Stanley Cup wins in three of those years, playing both centre and rover. He was notable for scoring several goals in a single game on a number of occasions, the most famous being his 14 goal effort in a 23-2 victory over the team from Dawson City, on 7 February 1905 for the Stanley Cup, the most lopsided playoff game in Stanley Cup history. It remains to this day the most goals scored by a single player in a Stanley Cup hockey game, and has not been surpassed in any professional match. He also recorded eight other senior matches scoring five or more goals, with a total of 135 career goals. Among his more prominent linemates were Alf Smith, Harry Westwick, Billy Gilmour and Tommy Smith. Frank Patrick, a contemporary of McGee's and like him a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, said of him, "He was even better than they say he was. He had everything - speed, stickhandling, scoring ability and was a punishing checker. He was strongly built but beautifully proportioned and he had an almost animal rhythm." [1]
McGee was also known as "One-Eyed McGee" after losing use of one of his eyes during an amateur game with the Ottawa Aberdeens. He enlisted in the military in World War I and died at the Battle of the Somme. McGee was one of the original players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945.
Frank's uncle was politician D'Arcy McGee.
