Lorne Campbell

Lorne Douglas Campbell (October 8, 1879 – May 6, 1957) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player from Montreal who played over 140 games in various professional leagues, including the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) and International Professional Hockey League (IPHL).

Playing career Lorne Campbell, a centre forward position wise, first played senior hockey for the Montreal Hockey Club in his hometown of Montreal. He played for the organization's second team before joining the main squad for the 1900–01 season. He then turned professional in the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) with the Pittsburgh Bankers in the 1901–02 season. He played three seasons with the Bankers before joining the Pittsburgh Pros team in the IPHL, which was a merged team of the best WPHL players.

Campbell played three seasons in the IPHL, also spending short stints with the Portage Lakes Hockey Club and the Calumet Miners. Campbell was one of the most prominent goal scorers in the IPHL's short history, ending up with both most goals and most games played at the conclusion of the league in 1907.

For the 1907–08 season, Campbell returned to Canada to play for the Winnipeg Maple Leafs of the Manitoba Professional Hockey League (MPHL). That season he played for Winnipeg in its unsuccessful Stanley Cup challenge. He played one season with the Pittsburgh Athletic Club of the WPHL, and also one game with the Winnipeg Strathconas of the MPHL, before finishing his career with one season in the National Hockey Association (NHA) with Cobalt in 1910. In 1915–16, Campbell played on the Pittsburgh Winter Garden hockey team, an amateur team based in Pittsburgh.

Playing style Campbell with the Winnipeg Maple LeafsThe Toronto Star, prior to the 1908 Stanley Cup challenge with the Winnipeg Maple Leafs against the Montreal Wanderers, described Campbell as a "fine skater and stick-handle" and a "glutton for punishment", and noted that his strong point was the manner in which he rushed the puck right in on the nets. The newspaper claimed that he seldom shot from long distance but instead was a wonder in getting through the opponent defence.

An example of Campbell taking serious punishment from opposing defence occurred in a December 1905 game between the Pittsburgh Pros and Michigan Soo Indians, in the IPHL, where Michigan Soo player Eddie Howell knocked him down in the second half of the contest with an elbow check and then clubbed him over the head with his stick. Blood was streaming down from an ugly gash below Campbell's right eye, and after the game it was believed he was suffering from a case of concussion of the brain.

An article in the Pittsburgh Press from March 9, 1907, chronicling Campbell's career in hockey up until then, claimed that while he was not considered as big of a "star" as deserting Pittsburgh players Hod Stuart and Billy Baird, he was considered a more reliable and uniformly good player by the newspaper, and it also noted that he could always be depended on to bring his game, which could not be said of either Stuart or Baird.

Career statistics Season Team League Regular season Playoffs 1899–1900 Montreal-2 CAHL-I 1 0 0 0 – 2 1 0 1 – 1900–1901 Montreal-2 CAHL-I 1 2 0 2 – – – – – – Montreal AAA CAHL 7 10 0 10 – – – – – – 1901–02 Pittsburgh Bankers WPHL 13 6 6 12 19 – – – – – Pittsburgh Bankers X-Games 5 6 3 9 6 – – – – – 1902–03 Pittsburgh Bankers WPHL 14 14 8 22 22 4 4 1 5 4 1903–04 Pittsburgh Bankers WPHL 15 21 8 29 25 2 5 2 7 0 1904–05 Pittsburgh Professionals IPHL 24 29 0 29 9 – – – – – Portage Lakes HC IPHL 4 6 0 6 0 – – – – – 1905–06 Pittsburgh Professionals IPHL 24 35 0 35 28 – – – – – Calumet Miners IPHL 1 3 0 3 1 – – – – – 1906–07 Pittsburgh Professionals IPHL 24 35 25 60 40 – – – – – 1907–08 Winnipeg Maple Leafs MPHL 15 29 0 29 – – – – – – Stanley Cup – – – – – 2 0 0 0 25 Exh. 3 2 – 2 – – – – – – 1908–09 Winnipeg Strathconas MPHL 1 0 0 0 0 – – – – – 1908–09 Pittsburgh Athletic Club WPHL 14 11 0 11 – – – – – – 1910 Cobalt Silver Kings NHA 2 4 0 4 8 – – – – – WPHL totals 56 52 22 74 76 6 9 3 12 4 IPHL totals 77 108 25 133 78 – – – – – Source: Total Hockey, eliteprospects.com and sihrhockey.org

Awards & records 1903, 1904 – WPHL First All-Star team 1906 – IPHL Second All-Star team 1907 – IPHL First All-Star team Source: Total Hockey