HOCKEY PLAYER

Howie Morenz

1902 - 1937

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Howard William Morenz (September 21, 1902 – March 8, 1937) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1923, he played centre for three National Hockey League (NHL) teams: the Montreal Canadiens (in two stints), the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup, the championship for junior ice hockey in Canada. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howie Morenz has received more than 397,685 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Howie Morenz is the 49th most popular hockey player (down from 42nd in 2019), the 544th most popular biography from Canada (down from 475th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Canadian Hockey Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Howie Morenz ranks 49 out of 676. Before him are Josef Černý, Marcel Dionne, Roy Henkel, Mats Näslund, Sergei Fedorov, and Peter Forsberg. After him are Valentin Loos, Dick Esser, Nils Nilsson, Herb Drury, Håkan Loob, and Jan Klapáč.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Howie Morenz ranks 296. Before him are Guillermo Riveros, Mary Miles Minter, Alexey Gribov, Commodore Cochran, Paul Bontemps, and Marguerite De La Motte. After him are Virginia Fox, Ernő Goldfinger, Frederick Sheffield, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Mary Philbin, and José Humberto Quintero Parra. Among people deceased in 1937, Howie Morenz ranks 173. Before him are Béla von Kehrling, Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, Jorge de Paiva, Harold Hackett, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, and Ottó Hellmich. After him are Colin Campbell Cooper, Clarence Clark, R. J. Mitchell, Claude Buckenham, Ruth Roland, and George Caridia.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Howie Morenz ranks 544 out of 1,622. Before him are Douglas Rain (1928), Tom Thomson (1877), Maurice LaMarche (1958), Anne Heggtveit (1939), Lolita Davidovich (1961), and Taylor Kitsch (1981). After him are Guy Delisle (1966), Jack Cameron (1900), Rob Gonsalves (1959), Robert Lepage (1957), Barbara Parkins (1942), and Robert J. Sawyer (1960).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Canada

Among hockey players born in Canada, Howie Morenz ranks 12. Before him are Phil Esposito (1942), Mario Lemieux (1965), Henri Richard (1936), Bobby Orr (1948), Guy Lafleur (1951), and Marcel Dionne (1951). After him are Herb Drury (1896), Ross Cuthbert (1892), Ernie Collett (1895), Mark Messier (1961), Bernie Geoffrion (1931), and Bobby Clarke (1949).

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