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| Mar 6 | vs  | L | 0.929 |
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Harry Lumley made his NHL debut on Dec. 19, 1943, and set a League record that still stand.
With some players serving overseas during World War II, a shortage of goalies created the opening for Lumley to become the youngest goalie to play in the NHL when the 17-year-old played for the Detroit Red Wings in a 6-2 loss to the New York Rangers. Lumley played three NHL games that season, including one period with the Rangers on an in-game injury replacement loan, before being returned to Indianapolis of the American Hockey League.
The native of Owen Sound, Ontario went on to play 16 seasons in the NHL for the Red Wings (1943-50), Rangers (1943), Chicago Black Hawks (1950-52), Toronto Maple Leafs (1952-56) and Boston Bruins (1957-60). A 1980 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Lumley went 330-329 with 142 ties, a 2.74 goals-against average and 71 shutouts in 803 NHL regular-season games.
Lumley was 29-47 with a 2.46 GAA and seven shutouts in 76 Stanley Cup Playoff games; he lost to the Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup Final in 1945, 1948 and 1949 with Detroit before defeating the Rangers in the 1950 Final for his only championship.
He led the NHL with 33 wins during the 1949-50 regular season and had seven shutouts before going 8-6 with a 1.85 GAA and three shutouts in the playoffs. But with Terry Sawchuk ready to replace him, Lumley was traded to the Black Hawks following that season.
After two seasons with last-place Chicago, he was traded to Toronto, where he re-emerged as one of the NHL's top goalies, leading the League with a 1.86 GAA in 1953-54 and a 1.91 GAA in 1954-55. Lumley was selected to the NHL First All-Star Team in each of those seasons and also won the Vezina Trophy, awarded at the time to the goalie who played the most games for the team that allowed the fewest goals in the League, in 1953-54. His 13 shutouts that season set a modern NHL record that stood until Tony Esposito broke it with 15 in 1969-70.
When the Maple Leafs sold Lumley's rights back to the Black Hawks in 1956, he declined to sign and played for Buffalo in the AHL instead, but he returned to the NHL with Boston in 1957. In his final NHL season in 1959-60, he went 16-21 with five ties, a 3.48 GAA and two shutouts in 42 games.
Lumley died on Sept. 13, 1998 at the age of 71.
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Traded to Boston by Chicago for cash, January, 1958.
Traded to Boston by Chicago for cash, January, 1958.
Traded to Chicago by Toronto with Eric Nesterenko for cash.
Traded to Chicago by Toronto with Eric Nesterenko for cash.
Traded to Toronto by Chicago for Al Rollins, Gus Mortson, Cal Gardner and Ray Hannigan.
Traded to Toronto by Chicago for Al Rollins, Gus Mortson, Cal Gardner and Ray Hannigan.
Traded to Chicago by Detroit with Jack Stewart, Al Dewsbury, Pete Babando and Don Morrison for Metro Prystai, Gaye Stewart, Bob Goldham and Jim Henry.
Traded to Chicago by Detroit with Jack Stewart, Al Dewsbury, Pete Babando and Don Morrison for Metro Prystai, Gaye Stewart, Bob Goldham and Jim Henry.
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