Magnus "Mike" Goodman (18 March 1898 – 18 July 1991) was an Icelandic-Canadian athlete. He was a member of the

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team, who represented Canada at the

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and won the gold medal.

Life

Goodman was born in 1898 to

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ic immigrant Gísli Guðmundsson and Ólöf Björnsdóttir. He distinguished himself in

as well as

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and

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. As a young man he joined the

, an amateur hockey team largely made up of Icelanders excluded from

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's other teams. His position was left wing. In 1920 the team won the

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and the right to represent Canada at the

, the first Olympic Games to feature hockey. The Falcons went on to defeat

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to win the gold medal. Goodman was known to carry his gold medal in his pocket at all times. In 1938 he served as player-coach for the Coral Gables Seminoles of the

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-based Tropical Hockey League, an early attempt to establish Hockey in the

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. He died in Miami in 1991 at the age of 93, the last surviving member of the Winnipeg Falcons.

Awards and achievements

Championship (1920) *Olympic Gold Medalist (1920) * AHA Championships (1927 & 1934) *"Honoured Member" of the

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Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Head coaching record

References

External links

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Mike Goodman's biography
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Falcons
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodman, Magnus 1898 births 1991 deaths Canadian expatriates in the United States Canadian ice hockey left wingers Canadian male speed skaters Canadian male swimmers Canadian people of Icelandic descent Ice hockey people from Manitoba Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic ice hockey players for Canada Olympic medalists in ice hockey Speed skaters from Winnipeg Winnipeg Falcons players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen