Rosario Couture
Rosario Couture | |||
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File:Hockey player Rosie Couture.jpg | |||
Born |
Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada | July 24, 1905||
Died |
March 1, 1986 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | (aged 80)||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
Weight | 163 lb (74 kg; 11 st 9 lb) | ||
Position | Right Wing | ||
Shot | Right | ||
Played for |
NHL Chicago Blackhawks Montreal Canadiens | ||
Playing career | 1927–1936 |
Joseph Albert Rosario "Rosie, Lolo" Couture (July 24, 1905 – March 1, 1986) was a professional ice hockey player. Couture was a right winger who played for the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens from 1928 to 1936.
Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Couture began his NHL career in 1928 with the Chicago Black Hawks. He would play for them until the end of the 1935 season. He helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 1934.
After brief stops in the minor leagues with the London Tecumsehs of the IHL and the Providence Reds of the CAHL He played the 1935–36 NHL season with the Montreal Canadiens.
He and fellow Blackhawk Leroy Goldsworthy identified the body of teammate Jack Leswick, who died in mysterious circumstances. Couture died in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1986 and is buried in St. Boniface Cathedral.
Awards and achievements
- Stanley Cup Championships (1934)
- “Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
Trivia
- Height 5'11"
- Weight 164 Lbs
- Shot Right
- Wore Uniform # 7 with the Chicago Black Hawks.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from
- Rosario Couture's biography at Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
- Articles with short description
- Use mdy dates from July 2013
- Pages using infobox ice hockey biography with unknown parameters
- 1905 births
- 1986 deaths
- Canadian ice hockey right wingers
- Chicago Blackhawks players
- Sportspeople from Winnipeg
- Montreal Canadiens players
- People from Saint Boniface, Winnipeg
- St. Boniface Canadiens players
- Stanley Cup champions
- Winnipeg Hockey Club players
- Winnipeg Maroons players
- Ice hockey people from Manitoba
- Burials at Saint Boniface Cathedral