Bernie Morris
{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image = Bernie Morris.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Morris with the Seattle Metropolitans
| position = Centre
| played_for = Regina Capitals
Boston Bruins
Calgary Tigers
Seattle Metropolitans
Victoria Aristocrats
| shoots = Right
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 7
| weight_lb = 145
| birth_date = {{birth date|1890|8|21}}
| birth_place = Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|5|16|1890|8|21}}
| death_place = {{nowrap|Bremerton, Washington, United States}}
| career_start = 1910
| career_end = 1930
| halloffame =
}}
Bernard Patrick Morris (August 21, 1890 – May 16, 1963) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) from 1915 to 1923. When the Metropolitans became the first U.S.-based team to win the Stanley Cup in 1917, Morris scored 14 of Seattle's goals (in a best-of-five series). Morris also played for the Calgary Tigers, Boston Bruins, and various minor league teams.
Playing career
File:1917 Seattle Metropolitans.jpg
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Morris played for several senior teams in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia before joining the Victoria Aristocrats of the PCHA in 1914. He moved over to the Seattle Metropolitans the following season, played eight seasons for Seattle, and was a member of the Stanley Cup champion 1917 team. He had an outstanding 1917 series, scoring 14 goals in four games.
Morris was scheduled to play in the ill-fated 1919 series, but was arrested by the United States for alleged draft dodging and jailed.{{cite web |last1=Weinreb |first1=Michael |title=When the Stanley Cup Final Was Canceled Because of a Pandemic |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-stanley-cup-finals-was-cancelled-because-pandemic-180974439/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=19 March 2020 |date=18 March 2020}}{{sfn|Diamond |Duplacey |Zweig |2001 |pp=6-7}} He received a sentence of two years, to be served at Alcatraz.{{cite news |work=Morning Leader |title=Sports Heliograms |date=April 25, 1919 |page=13 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eP5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tTcNAAAAIBAJ&dq=bernie-morris&pg=5036%2C3904777 |access-date=August 2, 2011}} The fact that he was a British subject did not stop the American authorities from arresting him, as by treaty, he was supposed to register for the draft (then claim exemption), but he neglected to attend his physical, thus making him the "first foreign national on the West Coast convicted of draft evasion."{{cite web |last1=Ticen |first1=Kevin |title=Seattle Metropolitans tie the Montreal Canadiens in a plague-stricken Stanley Cup Final on March 29, 1919 |url=https://www.historylink.org/file/20916 |website=HistoryLink.org |access-date=19 March 2020 |date=28 January 2020}} By fall he was transferred to an Army unit and in March 1920 granted an honourable discharge.{{cite web |last1=Ticen |first1=Kevin |title=Seattle Metropolitans tie the Montreal Canadiens in a plague-stricken Stanley Cup Final on March 29, 1919 |url=https://www.historylink.org/file/20916 |website=HistoryLink.org |access-date=19 March 2020 |date=28 January 2020}}
Morris returned to hockey after the 1919–20 season{{sfn|Diamond|Duplacey|Zweig|2001|p=9}} and played in the 1920 series for Seattle.
In October 1923, Morris was traded by Seattle to the Calgary Tigers. He played for the Tigers in the 1924 series against Montreal. In all, Morris played a season and a half with Calgary before being traded again. He was traded to the Montreal Maroons and then to the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) on January 3, 1925. He was released by Boston in February 1925, and he returned west to play for the Regina Capitals.
From 1925 to 1930, Morris finished his career with various teams in the minor California Pro League, Can-Pro, and International League. Morris managed the Hamilton Tigers during the 1928–1929 and 1929–1930 seasons. He made his home in Hamilton, Ontario and did not move to Syracuse when the team was transferred there in 1930.{{cite news |title=Hamilton Club is Sold to Syracuse |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T70tAAAAIBAJ&dq=Hamilton+Tigers&pg=PA21&article_id=6745,865406 |access-date=29 December 2022 |work=The Gazette |date=6 October 1930 |location=Montreal |page=21}}
Career statistics
=Regular season and playoffs=
File:1919 Seattle Metropolitans.jpg
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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! colspan="5"|Regular season ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! colspan="5"|Playoffs | ||||||||
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Season ! Team ! League ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM | ||||||||
| 1910–11
| Brandon Shamrocks | MIPHL | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | —
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1911–12 | Moose Jaw Brewers | Sask-Pro | 8 | 21 | 0 | 21 | —
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1912–13
| Phoenix Hockey Club | BDHL | 4 | 10 | 1 | 11 | —
| 4 | 5 | 3 | 8 | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1913–14 | Phoenix Hockey Club | BDHL | 10 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1913–14
| S-SSHL | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1914–15 | PCHA | 10 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1915–16
| PCHA | 18 | 23 | 9 | 32 | 27
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1915–16 | PCHA All-Stars | Exhib | 3 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1916–17
| Seattle Metropolitans | PCHA | 24 | 37 | 17 | 54 | 17
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1916–17 | Seattle Metropolitans | St-Cup | — | — | — | — | —
| 4 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 0 |
| 1917–18
| Seattle Metropolitans | PCHA | 18 | 20 | 12 | 32 | 9
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1918–19 | Seattle Metropolitans | PCHA | 20 | 22 | 7 | 29 | 15
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1919–20
| Seattle Metropolitans | St-Cup | — | — | — | — | —
| 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1920–21 | Seattle Metropolitans | PCHA | 24 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 3
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1921–22
| Seattle Metropolitans | PCHA | 24 | 14 | 10 | 24 | 36
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1922–23 | Seattle Metropolitans | PCHA | 29 | 21 | 5 | 26 | 30
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1923–24
| WCHL | 30 | 16 | 7 | 23 | 13
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1923–24 | Calgary Tigers | W-PO | — | — | — | — | —
| 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| 1923–24
| Calgary Tigers | St-Cup | — | — | — | — | —
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1924–25 | Calgary Tigers | WCHL | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1924–25
| NHL | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1924–25 | WCHL | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1925–26
| Los Angeles Palais de Glace | Cal-Pro | 10 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 8
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1926–27 | PrHL | 27 | 18 | 6 | 24 | 28
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1927–28
| Can-Pro | 37 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 35
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1928–29 | Can-Pro | 12 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1929–30
| Hamilton Tigers | IHL | 17 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | PCHA totals ! 167 !! 155 !! 76 !! 231 !! 137 ! 6 !! 2 !! 0 !! 2 !! 0 | ||||||||
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | St-Cup totals ! — !! — !! — !! — !! — ! 11 !! 14 !! 5 !! 19 !! 0 | ||||||||
| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | NHL totals ! 6 !! 1 !! 0 !! 1 !! 0 ! — !! — !! — !! — !! — |
Awards
- PCHA First All-Star team: 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922
- PCHA Second All-Star team: 1921, 1923
References
=Bibliography=
- {{cite book |last1=Diamond |first1=Dan |last2=Duplacey |first2=James |last3=Zweig |first3=Zweig |title=Hockey stories on and off the ice |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |year=2001 |isbn=0-7407-1903-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/hockeystoriesono0000diam }}
=Notes=
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External links
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- {{icehockeystats|legends=13773}}
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