Gardiner, Herbert M.
Hockey
b. May. 8, 1891, Winnipeg, MAN
d. Jan. 11, 1972
A defenseman, Gardiner didn't get to the National Hockey League until he was thirty-five and he played only two full seasons. But he won the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player in 1926-27 and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Gardiner worked as a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad from 1910 until serving in World War I. In 1920, he began playing for Calgary of the Western Canada League. The Montreal Canadiens acquired him in 1926. After two seasons in Montreal, he was loaned to Chicago to serve as the Black Hawks' manager; he returned to the Canadiens for the 1929 playoffs.
Gardiner later coached minor-league teams in Philadelphia. In his NHL career, he scored 10 regular-season goals and 1 assist, with 1 goal and 1 assist in three playoff series.