Two Hockey Heroes to be
Inducted to Manitoba Hall
By Scott Taylor, Photos and biographies courtesy of Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame
Herb Gardiner was one of the greatest stories in NHL history. He didn’t play and NHL game until he was 35 and won
the league MVP at 36. It’s quite remarkable, actually.
Which makes one wonder how it took so long for the Winnipeg-born Gardiner to be inducted into the Manitoba
Sports Hall of Fame.
Well, better late than never.
In March, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame announced that it will induct Gardiner, along with all-round athlete
(and hockey star) Gary Aldcorn plus a championship soccer team at Sport Manitoba’s Night of Champions, on
Saturday, April 23, at the Club Regent Event Centre.
Thanks my good friend Rick Brownlee at the Hall for providing the spring inductees biographies:
Herb Gardiner
will be inducted
posthumously in
the Athlete category
for his outstanding
hockey career that
began with the
Winnipeg Victorias
as an amateur and
continued after
his service in the
Great War as a
professional. First,
he was a member of
the WCHL’s Calgary
Tigers (league
champs in 1924)
and then, at the age
of 35, he broke into
the NHL with the
Montreal Canadiens
and played there
from 1926-28 (where
he won the Hart
Trophy as MVP in
wks as a player/
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