Quick pick.
Team Slapshot will take
Newsy Lalonde as Centre #2
Very interesting character. Scored for the Montreal Canadiens in the first ever NHL game. Scored in his first six NHL games, a record, recently equaled by Malkin.
Edouard "Newsy" Lalonde (
October 31,
1887,
Cornwall, Ontario –
November 21,
1970) was a
Canadian professional
ice hockey forward in the
National Hockey League (NHL) and a professional
lacrosse player, regarded as one of hockey's and lacrosse's greatest players of the first half of the 20th century and one of sport's most colourful characters. He played for the
Montreal Canadiens -- considered to be the original "Flying Frenchman" -- in the
National Hockey Association and the
NHL. He also played for the
WCHL's
Saskatoon Sheiks. Before playing professional ice hockey, he worked in a newspaper plant, where he acquired the "Newsy"
moniker.