Hap holmes biography
Harry “Hap” Holmes....
Harry George "Hap" Holmes (February 21, – June 27, ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.
Hockey Hall of Famer Harry "Hap" Holmes played only 103 NHL games, but enjoyed a 15 year career with 5 different leagues. He was one of hockey's early star puck stoppers, and had he not spent his best years out west, Hap Holmes almost certainly would be bigger legend in hockey circles today.
Holmes strapped on the pads for Toronto of the NHA, Seattle of the PCHA, Victoria of the WCHL which would later become the WHL, and Toronto and Detroit of the NHL.
The cap-wearing Holmes backstopped four Stanley Cup winners, including two in Toronto, one in the NHA days and another in the NHL's very first season.
He also backstopped Seattle and Victoria.
However his most famous feat came in one of hockey's most infamous moments.
That moment was the 1919 influenza cancelled Stanley Cup finals. The series featured the two best goalies of early hockey history, as Holmes went head to head with his nemesis, Georges Vezina.
The final game was a 0-0 draw. Due to the flu, the referee called
