Wilfred Reginald "Wilf" Cude - Born July 4, 1906 in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales - Died May 5, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec was a Canadian ice Hockey goaltender, coach, general manager and scout.

- Prince of Wales Trophy Champion 1934 with Detroit Red Wings.
Stanley Cup finalist 1934.

- O'Brien Trophy Champion 1937 with Montreal Canadiens.

Born in Wales, Cude was raised and learned to play Hockey in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He played junior with St. Vital Saints.

After playing 1 season of intermediate Hockey with Winnipeg Wellingtons, Cude joined the Melville Millionaires of the Saskatchewan Senior Amateur Hockey Association in 1929, and was later signed in February 1930 by the NHL Pittsburgh Pirates. He moved with that team to Philadelphia, and was the Philadelphia Quakers' goaltender during its only NHL season in 1930–31. Cude made his NHL debut on December 16, 1930 vs New York Americans at Madison Square Garden in a 3-0 Americans win.

Cude got his 1st NHL victory and 1st NHL shutout vs Detroit Falcons on February 17, 1931 at Detroit Olympia in a 2-0 Quakers win.

The Quakers were just plain awful during the 1930-31 season, winning just 4 games out of 44, Cude getting 2 of those wins.
They suspended operations after the season.

Cude went on to serve as the NHL’s spare goaltender through the 1931-32 season, available to any team that might need his services in an emergency. He played two games in goal for Boston and one for Chicago, with the balance of his season being played in the Canadian-American Hockey League / Can-Am with the Boston Cubs. The entire 1932-33 season was spent in the Can-Am with the Philadelphia Arrows.

In 1933, the defunct Quakers traded Cude to the Montreal Canadiens who already had George Hainsworth as their star goaltender. Before the 1933–34 season, Hainsworth was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs for similarly distinguished Lorne Chabot. Cude played one game for the Canadiens before he was loaned to the Detroit Red Wings, where he posted an outstanding season, winning 16 games. Cude then backstopped the Red Wings to their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance in 1934, though they lost to Charlie Gardiner and the Chicago Black Hawks, falling 3 games to 1 in the best-of-five series.

Cude also surrendered the first overtime goal clinching a Stanley Cup championship when he was scored on by Mush March at the 10:05 mark of the 2nd overtime in Game 4 on April 10 at Chicago Stadium.

Cude posted a league leading 1.52 goals against average for the year.

The Canadiens were so impressed by Cude's work with the Red Wings that they traded Chabot and made Cude their number one goaltender through the 1937–38 season. He split duties with Claude Bourque in 1938–39 and ceded the starter job to Bourque in 1939–40, and to Bert Gardiner in 1940–41.

Cude played in 281 regular season NHL games, winning 98, losing 132, 50 ties, 24 shutouts and a GAA 2.73
He played in 19 NHL playoff games, winning 7, losing 11, 1 tie, 1 shutout and a GAA 2.44

Cude played in the Howie Morenz Memorial Game for the Montreal All-Stars who played the NHL All-Stars on November 2, 1937 at Montreal Forum.

Cude played in the Babe Siebert Memorial Game for the Canadiens who played the NHL All-Stars on October 29th, 1939 at Montreal Forum.

Stan Fischer wrote about Wilf's retirement interview ...
I was having my afternoon steak before a game and I poured a helluva lot of catsup on it. I’d just started to eat when my wife, Beulah, made some casual remark about a trivial subject. For no good reason, I picked up my steak and threw it at her. She ducked, and the steak hung there on the wall. Slowly it began to slip down and I stared at it. Between the time the steak hit the wall and then hit the floor, I decided I had enough of goaltending. When it landed. I had made my decision to retire.

After retiring, Cude coached the Montreal Canadiens Junior team for 5 seasons, before heading over to the Northern Ontario Hockey Association, where he coached and managed a couple of teams. He was a long time scout for Detroit.

Wilfred (Wilf) Cude was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985.