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16 Facts About Duke Keats

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Gordon Blanchard "Duke, Iron Duke" Keats was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association, Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League and the Boston Bruins, Detroit Cougars and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League between 1915 and 1929.

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Duke Keats was most famous for his time in the WCHL where he was named a First-Team All-Star by the league in each of its five seasons of existence.

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3.

Duke Keats won the league championship and appeared in the 1923 Stanley Cup Final with the Eskimos.

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4.

Duke Keats joined the Cobalt Mining League at the age of 14, and three years later was being paid $75 a week to star in the league.

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5.

Duke Keats joined the NHA's Toronto Blueshirts in 1915 and finished fifth in league scoring that year.

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6.

On January 10,1918 Duke Keats was sentenced to 14 days' field punishment for drunkenness, but otherwise had no noteworthy events during his time in the war, and by March 1919 he was back in Canada.

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Duke Keats played for the Eskimos in all five seasons of the league's existence and was named a First-Team All-Star at centre in each.

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8.

The Eskimos avenged the previous season as Duke Keats scored the championship winning goal in overtime of the second game.

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9.

Duke Keats began the following season in Detroit but was suspended early in the season after swinging his stick at a spectator in Chicago who was heckling him.

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10.

Duke Keats returned to Edmonton in 1932 as a player, coach and owner of a reformed Eskimos team.

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11.

Duke Keats went on to coach several teams in the Canadian prairies and briefly worked for the Black Hawks before settling in Victoria, British Columbia in 1947 where he worked for the government and served as president of the Victoria Commercial Hockey League.

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12.

Duke Keats died on January 16,1972 and is buried in Royal Oak Burial Park in Victoria.

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13.

Duke Keats was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958, and into the Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame in 1964.

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14.

Outside of his puck-handling skills Duke Keats was known to have a temper on the ice, which sometimes left him in trouble with league authorities.

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15.

Duke Keats was suspended following the incident and missed three weeks of play as a result.

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16.

When Duke Keats was reinstated Frederic McLaughlin traded for him to have him on his Black Hawks team.

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