Schriner, "Sweeney" (David)
Hockey
b. Nov. 30, 1911, Sarator, Russia
d. July 6, 1990
Schriner's family moved from Russia to Calgary, Alberta, just a month after his birth. When he was a boy, his idol was a baseball player, Bill Sweeney, which is how Schriner got his nickname.
Schriner began playing professional hockey in 1933 and he joined the NHL's New York Americans in 1934. He won the Calder Trophy as the league's outstanding rookie for the 1934-35 season.
In 1935-36, Schriner scored 45 points on 19 goals and 26 assists to win the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer, and he repeated with 21 goals and 25 assists for 46 points in 1936-37.
The Americans traded him to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1939. He helped lead Toronto to the 1942 Stanley Cup, scoring two goals in a 3-1 victory over Detroit in the seventh game of the final series. Schriner retired after the 1943-44 season, but he returned to the Maple Leafs because of the World War II manpower shortage and played for the 1945 Stanley Cup champions.
Schriner then retired again. After coaching the Lethbridge team in the Western Canada Senior Hockey League for two season, he played one more season, 1948-49, with the Regina Capitals.
