Maurice Joseph Malone was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre.
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30 Facts About Joe Malone
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Joe Malone played in the National Hockey Association and National Hockey League for the Quebec Bulldogs, Montreal Canadiens, and Hamilton Tigers from 1910 to 1924.
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Joe Malone is the only player in the history of the NHL to score seven goals in a single game, accomplishing the feat in 1920.
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Joe Malone, the second of eleven children, was born in Sillery, a town outside of Quebec City, on February 28,1890.
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Joe Malone's mother was Marie-Louise Rochon, who was Quebecois herself.
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Joe Malone played hockey from an early age: he was noted in local newspapers as early as 1904 for his exploits, with one report calling him "a rising star".
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Joe Malone finished tied for first on the team in scoring with 8 goals in 12 games.
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The Quebec club was reformed in 1911 and joined the NHA, so Joe Malone returned to the team, where he scored 9 goals in 13 games.
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Joe Malone was in the scoring lead until the final game of the season, when he played Nighbor and the Senators.
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Joe Malone scored one of the first goals in NHL history, on the league's opening night of December 19,1917; he finished the game with five goals.
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Joe Malone had two other games with five goals during the season, and finished with 44 goals in 20 games, leading the league.
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Joe Malone established a league record for goals in a season that lasted until 1945; his goals-per-game average has not been surpassed.
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Joe Malone did not initially join the team, instead staying in Quebec to attend to his business interests.
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Joe Malone joined the team in January 1921, having missed the first four games of the season.
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Joe Malone finished finished fourth in league scoring with 28 goals.
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Joe Malone finished fourth in scoring the following season, as well.
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Joe Malone was traded back to the Canadiens on January 3,1923, in exchange for Edmond Bouchard.
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Joe Malone scored only a single goal that season while generally playing as a substitute.
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Joe Malone spent the majority of his playing career as a centre forward, and he had a particular penchant for finding open space on the ice for his goal scoring.
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Joe Malone is a great stickhandler, and a player who never gets flurried no matter how hard the going is.
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Joe Malone was not considered to be one of the fastest players in the game, but rather a smooth player who knew exactly how to position himself around the opposing goal cage.
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Joe Malone finished his career with 343 goals and 32 assists over 15 professional seasons.
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Joe Malone is the only player in NHL history to score 6 goals in a game more than once.
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Joe Malone was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1950, and is a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
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Joe Malone was a second cousin of Sarsfield and Foster Malone, who played briefly in the NHA.
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Statue by artist Frederic Laforge of Malone with a bulldog, entitled Hommage a Joe Malone, was inaugurated on June 10,2021, and is located at Place Jean-Beliveau at the ExpoCite in Quebec City.
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