15 Facts About Pete Muldoon

Linton Muldoon Treacy, better known as Pete Muldoon, was a Canadian ice hockey coach.

Pete Muldoon was the coach of the Seattle Metropolitans from 1915 to 1924 and led the team to a Stanley Cup championship in 1917.

Pete Muldoon was born in St Marys, Ontario, as Linton Pete Muldoon Treacy.

Pete Muldoon played hockey in the Ontario Hockey Association in the 1900s before moving to the Pacific coast in order to pursue a boxing career.

Pete Muldoon changed his name to Pete Muldoon because the pursuit of a professional sports career was discouraged in Ontario at the time.

Pete Muldoon won regional titles in both the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions while boxing.

Pete Muldoon played professionally for a Vancouver club in 1911.

Pete Muldoon was an ice dancer who was able to skate, as well as play hockey, while on stilts.

Pete Muldoon spent eight seasons coaching in Seattle and amassed a record of 115 wins, 105 losses, and four ties.

Pete Muldoon was the first and, at age 30, youngest coach of a Stanley Cup Championship team based in the United States.

However, Pete Muldoon felt it would be unsportsmanlike to accept what would have been his second Cup, seeing as it would have been at the expense of a team decimated by illness.

Pete Muldoon returned to the Rosebuds after the Metropolitans folded in the spring of 1924.

Pete Muldoon followed most of his players to the National Hockey League when most of the Rosebuds were sold to Major Frederic McLaughlin to start the Chicago Black Hawks.

Pete Muldoon accepted the position because his wife Dorothy was a Chicago native and pregnant with the family's second child.

Pete Muldoon returned to Seattle and became involved in efforts to bring a professional team back to the city, as a new arena was constructed in 1928.