Duncan McMillan "Mickey" MacKay (May 21, 1894 in Chesley, Ontario

Chesley, Ontario

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 – May 21, 1940) was a Canadian

Canada

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 professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 centre

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 who played for the Chicago Black Hawks

Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...

, Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)

The Pittsburgh Pirates were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League , based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1925–26 to 1929–30. The nickname comes from the baseball team also based in the city...

, and Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...

 in the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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. He also spent time with the Vancouver Millionaires

Vancouver Millionaires

The Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team that competed in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the Western Canada Hockey League between 1911 and 1926...

 and Vancouver Maroons of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association

Pacific Coast Hockey Association

The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was a professional men's ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League...

.

Nicknamed "The Wee Scot", MacKay got his start in professional hockey with the Millionaires in 1914-15. In his first season, he scored 33 goals in 17 games to lead the league by a wide margin. He also added four tallies in the playoffs to help Vancouver win the Stanley Cup

Stanley Cup

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 for the first and only time. MacKay would help the Millionaires reach four more Cup finals. He played 11 of his first 12 seasons in Vancouver. In that span, through 1925-26, he was the league's top goal scorer three times. He is the PCHA's all-time scoring leader with 290 total points in 247 games.

In 1926, MacKay traveled east to join the NHL with the Chicago Black Hawks. In true form, the aging superstar was his club's leading scorer the following year. After a handful of games in Pittsburgh, MacKay moved on to Boston where he won a second Stanley Cup in 1929.

On May 21, 1940, Mickey suffered a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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 while driving a car near Nelson, British Columbia

Nelson, British Columbia

Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City", and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush,...

. The car was involved in an accident, and he died.

He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame

Hockey Hall of Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup...

 in 1952.

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