Charles Corbett "Corb" Denneny (January 25, 1894 – January 16, 1963) was a Canadian professional

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forward who played professionally from 1912 to 1931, including nine seasons in the

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(NHL) for the

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, Toronto St. Pats, Hamilton Tigers and

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. Corbett also played for the

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of the

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(PCHA) and the

Saskatoon Sheiks The Saskatoon Sheiks were a professional ice hockey team in the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) and Prairie Hockey League (PrHL) from 1921 to 1928. The team played their home games at the Crescent Arena in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Hist ...

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(WCHL, then WHL). He twice won the

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(1918, 1922) with the original versions of the NHL's Toronto franchise. His brother,

Cy Denneny Cyril Joseph Denneny (December 23, 1891 – September 10, 1970) was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League from 1917 to 1929 and the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hock ...

also played

and is a member of the

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Personal life

He was born and raised in

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. As a child Denneny excelled in

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, signing a pro contract at age 14. In track and field, Denneny tied the 100 yard world record in a meet in Toronto. In the winter, Denneny played hockey and he moved to Toronto to play both sports. After his playing career ended, Denneny returned to Toronto, coaching the Toronto Tecumsehs minor league team. He later joined the YMCA, becoming head masseuse and eventually director of health services.Podnieks, p. 197 Denneny, who was often listed as 'Dennenay' in newspaper reports eventually adopted the spelling. Corb Denneny died in Toronto on January 16, 1963, after a long illness."Old NHL Star Dennenay Dies"
''The Gazette'' (Montreal). Jan. 17, 1963 (pg. 21). Retrieved October 31, 2020.

Playing career

Corbett Denneny first played professional

for the Cobalt McKinley Mines of the Cobalt Mining Hockey League, playing two seasons from 1912 to 1914. He then joined the Toronto Ontarios of the

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(NHA) for their 1914–15 season. He then played for the NHA's

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for the 1915–16 part of the 1916–17 seasons, before being traded to the

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where he would play with his brother Cy. He returned to Toronto for the inaugural

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playing for the "Torontos", operated by the Toronto Arena Company. He stayed with the organization as it changed to the "Toronto Arenas" and "Toronto St. Patricks", and was a member of two

winners, in 1918 and 1922. During a six-week span in the

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, Corbett and his brother Cy (who still played for the now-NHL Ottawa Senators), each scored six goals during a game—a feat accomplished by only five other players in the history of the NHL. After the 1922 Stanley Cup win, Denneny was traded to the

of the PCHA and lost the 1923 Stanley Cup against the Ottawa Senators and his brother Cy. Brothers Frank and

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also played against each other in that series, marking the first time two different sets of brothers faced each other in an NHL or Big Four championship series. In the 1923–24 season, Denneny returned to NHL with Toronto and was traded to the Hamilton Tigers for whom he played for one season. After that season he was picked up by the WCHL's

, playing in the final two seasons of that major professional league. After the WCHL folded he played for the Sheiks in the Prairie Hockey League until he was traded back to the NHL, playing for the Toronto St. Patricks in the season they became the

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. He was returned to the Sheiks when the trade was not finalized and finished the season with the Sheiks. Denneny started the 1927–28 season with a return to the NHL when traded to the

, playing his last games in the NHL before being traded back to the Sheiks mid-season. He would play three more professional seasons with the

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( American Hockey Association/AHA), Newark Bulldogs (

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) and

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(AHA), retiring after the 1930–31 season.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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