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Uploaded By: PRESIDENT on July 2nd, 2011

1920 USA Olympic Ice Hockey Team - team comprised of four former Canadians (Drury, Synott, and the McCormick brothers) as well as four players from the Minnesota, St. Paul Athletic Club, including team leader and American World War I veteran, Francis 'Moose' Goheen.

A defenceman, Goheen was the master of the on-goal rush (rink length rushes). He played a defensive/offensive style of Hockey, good at intercepting the puck with the stick, or keeping it during shorthanded streaks, a style of play that would not be seen again until the arrival of Eddy Shore in the 1930’s and later by Bobby Orr in the 1960/70’s.

A man ahead of his time, Goheen helped lead the Americans in their quest for a medal with a 29-0 whitewash of Switzerland, a 0-2 defeat to Canada, 7-0 vs Sweden, and a 16-0 victory over Czechoslovakia, as the USA Team would win the Olympic Silver Medal.

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