John Mariucci

After starring for the Eveleth hockey and football teams, Mariucci would go on to college at the University of Minnesota where he would play both sports - leading his hockey squad to an undefeated AAU championship in 1940. Mariucci played for the Chicago Black Hawks for five seasons and would be the team captain in 1945-46 and 1947-48. Mariucci would be known primarily as a defensive-minded bruiser, finishing with only 11 goals and 34 assists in 223 games, but would total 308 penalty minutes. He would lose three seasons to the war (1942-43 through 1944-45), but would play two seasons for the United States Coast Guard Cutters in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. Mariucci\'s best season with the Black Hawks would come in 1946-47 when he would play in 52 of the team\'s 60 games and finish with 9 goals and 11 assists and his 110 penalty minutes would be second in the league to Gus Mortson.\…