Oldest NHL MVP
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Herb Gardiner, the oldest NHL MVP, won it as a defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens in 1927 at 35. Before Herb played professional hockey, he enlisted in the Canadian Army and fought in World War I. He fought for three years before being medically discharged, rising from a private to a lieutenant. Back then, multiple hockey leagues would compete for the Stanley Cup. Herb would join a non-NHL league after coming back from the military. He wouldn't join the NHL until the Western Canada Hockey League fell apart; the 1926-27 season was Herb's rookie season in the NHL.
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herb gardiner: in 1927, the nhl’s most useful man
The nature of the wound is inscribed in Gardiner’s medical record as “GSW Nose” — i.e. Gun Shot Wound Nose. That’s as much as I know about it, other than it seems that he was brisk in his recovery, and kept on winning promotion as 1916 went, to company sergeant-major, then temporary lieutenant.
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