Frank Ashworth

Frank Ashworth was a spectacular junior player, twice leading the Saskatchewan junior league in scoring while twice leading the Moose Jaw Canucks to the Memorial Cup. Both times, in 1945 and 1946, his team would come up short in the Memorial Cup game. But the 5'8" 155lb Ashworth put up some ridiculous numbers, including a 17 goal, 27 assist, 44 point playoff campaign in 21 games!

The Chicago Black Hawks owned his NHL rights and rushed him into the Windy City for the 1946-47 season. He only got into 18 games and scored just 5 goals and 9 points before being sent down to the minor leagues, forever.

He ended up in first in Kansas City then in Tulsa of the USHL, but by 1950 he refused to report back to Tulsa resulting in a season long suspension that kept him off the ice. The issue was resolved by 1951 and returned to the ice, this time popping up in Calgary where he starred with the Stampeders.

Ashworth would play until 1957 when he retired and opened up a gas station in Calgary. He later moved to BC.

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Tony Ahlin

Tony Ahlin, a 5'11" 175lb left winger who played one game in the NHL with the Chicago Black Hawks, was born less than a year before the legendary goaltender Frankie Brimsek was born in the town of Eveleth, Minnesota. The two very likely spent a lot of time playing with and against each other as youth in Eveleth, and later with the CHL Eveleth Rangers.

While Brimsek went on to become America's first great NHL player, Ahlin was destined for a solid career in the minor leagues. He is best remembered for playing with the AHA Kansas City Greyhounds.

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Ty Arbour

Ernest "Ty" Arbour is a long forgotten about hockey player having played way back in the 1920s with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL. In total the Waubaushene, Ontario native played in 207 NHL contests, providing a bit of offense with 28 goals and 56 points in his career. He added 2 goals in 11 Stanley Cup games.

Like his brother Jack, Arbour made a name for himself out west. He was a solid scoring winger for the Edmonton Eskimos of the WCHL and later the Vancouver Maroons. When that league folded he, like so many those great Western players, headed east to the NHL.

After his NHL career came to an end, Arbour briefly returned to Edmonton to continue playing hockey. He would ultimately return home to Waubaushene where he bought 250 acres of farmland. He raised cattle and harvested hay until he sold the farm later in life.

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Chicago Blackhawks Greatest Players

Taffy Abel Murray Bannerman Doug Bentley Max Bentley Reg Bentley J.P. Bordeleau Bob Carse Lude Check Roy Conacher Adam Creighton Cully Dahlstrom Don Dietrich Tony Esposito Reggie Fleming Lidio "Lee" Fogolin Sr. Charlie Gardiner Johnny Gottselig Michel Goulet Dirk Graham "Mr Goalie" Glenn Hall Bill "Red" Hay Bobby Hull Dennis Hull Mike Karakas Cliff Koroll Steve Larmer Hugh Lehman Sam LoPresti Tom Lysiak Mickey MacKay Keith Magnuson Dave Manson

Mush March John Mariucci Pit Martin Ab McDonald Stan Mikita Alfie Moore Bill Mosienko Grant Mulvey Troy Murray Eric Nesterenko Gary Nylund Ed Olczyk Jim Pappin Pierre Pilote Rich Preston Al Rollins Terry Ruskowski Cam Russell Phil Russell Denis Savard Al Secord Earl Seibert Steve Smith Gary Suter Brent Sutter Darryl Sutter Steve Thomas Paul Thompson Bill Thoms Kenny Wharram Bill White Behn Wilson Doug Wilson

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