Harry Cameron ✝

Cameron was considered one of the first great rushing and scoring defencemen. He scored 88 goals in 121 games in the NHL. He was also famous for his "curved shot" similar to that of today\'s curved hockey sticks. Cameron was the first player in NHL history to achieve what was later called a "Gordie Howe hat trick", doing so on December 26, 1917 during a 7-5 defeat of the Montreal Canadiens. In later years, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where he resided when he died in 1953. He was inducted posthumously into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963.\n', ' Born in Pembroke, Ontario Cameron played with the Pembroke Debaters club from 1908 until 1911, before becoming a professional with the Port Arthur Lake City of the Northern Ontario Hockey League (NOHL). The transaction is also famous as he demanded that his friend Frank Nighbor be signed also. While playing with Nighbor in the Upper Ottawa Valley Hockey League (UOVHL) during the 1910–11 season Pembroke Debaters won the Citizen Shield after having defeated Vankleek Hill 10 goals to 8. The 1911–12 Port Arthur team also figured future Hockey Hall of Fame member Jack Walker.\n', ' Cameron (along with Nighbor) joined the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association (NHA) for the 1912–13 season and stayed with the organization until the NHA suspended the franchise in the 1916–17 season, including the 1914 Stanley Cup win. He was picked up by the Montreal Wanderers for the balance of the season, playing six games for the Redbands. In 1917–18 he returned to the Blueshirts, now a franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL), operated by the Toronto Arena Company in their Stanley Cup-winning season. Cameron was the highest paid player on the 1917–18 Toronto Arenas with a salary of $900, whereas his teammates salaries ranged from $450 to $750.\n', '