Kenneth Fenwick "The Pepper Kid" Randall (December 14, 1887 – June 14, 1947) was a

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professional

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player who played for 20 seasons, including ten seasons in the

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from 1917 to 1927 for the

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, Hamilton Tigers and

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. He was a two-time

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Champion.

Playing career

Randall had a long and varied playing career at a time when the professional ice hockey world was changing. He was an accomplished scorer when playing forward, and was a good defencemen which he became exclusively later in his career. He turned professional in the

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(OPHL), and played in the Maritime Professional Hockey League, the Eastern Ontario Professional Hockey League and the Saskatchewan Professional Hockey League before joining the

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of the

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(NHA) in 1915. He played for the organization until 1923, as it changed from the Blueshirts to Arenas to St. Patricks, winning two Stanley Cups, in 1918 and 1922. In 1923, Randall joined the Hamilton Tigers, which in 1924 became embroiled in a labor conflict and his contract was sold to the new

, for which he played two years before becoming a player coach with the Providence Reds. He became a full-time coach in 1928, but still had some playing time left in him, playing for the Oshawa Patricias when the OPHL was revived in 1930.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Coaching record

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Randall, Ken 1887 births 1947 deaths Canadian ice hockey defencemen Canadian ice hockey right wingers Hamilton Tigers (ice hockey) players Ice hockey player-coaches Montreal Wanderers (NHA) players Montreal Wanderers players New York Americans players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Ice hockey people from Kingston, Ontario Stanley Cup champions Toronto Arenas players Toronto Blueshirts players Toronto St. Pats players