A Look At Bad Joe Hall (Part Two)

Joe Hall tragically passed away as a result of the Spanish Flu pandemic that cancelled the 1919 Stanley Cup finals.

Here is Part Two on Bad Joe Hall!

Hall went on to play for Montreal AAA's and Shamrocks clubs in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and was on the Kenora Thistles team that won the Stanley Cup in 1907. Eventually he joined the National Hockey Association which served as the forerunner to the NHL and skated for the Quebec Bulldogs. He made a lot of enemies while with the Bulldogs including a long-time feud with Montreal Canadiens superstar Newsy Lalonde.

"One night, Joe Hall nearly crushed my windpipe and I came back and almost broke his collarbone," Newsy Lalonde recalled. Another night Joe drove Lalonde's head into the fence at the end of the rink. On another occasion, Hall beat up Lalonde pretty bad and was chagrined after the game to discover that Lalonde's wife had delivered a baby, a daughter, that morning. Hall went to the hospital and apologized to Mrs. Lalonde for injuring the father of her child on such an important day.