Cecil W. Blachford was a Canadian

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 professional ice hockey

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 forward

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 player who played for the Montreal Hockey Club

Montreal Hockey Club

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 and the Montreal Wanderers

Montreal Wanderers

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. He was a member of Stanley Cup

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-winning teams in 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1910, and captain of the 1906 to 1908 teams.

Playing career

Born in Montreal

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, Quebec

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, Blachford played junior hockey for Montreal Mintos in 1898–99, before graduating to senior-level hockey the following season with Montreal Stirling, for which he played until 1902. He joined the Montreal Hockey Club

Montreal Hockey Club

The Montreal Hockey Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was a senior-level men's amateur ice hockey club, organized in 1884. They were affiliated with Montreal Amateur Athletic Association and used the MAAA 'winged wheel' logo. The team is notable for winning the first Stanley Cup in 1893, and in a...

's intermediate squad, and played one game with the Montreal HC senior team, aka the "Little Men of Iron" in the regular season, and two games of Stanley Cup challenge play, helping to defeat the Winnipeg Victorias

Winnipeg Victorias

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. He left Montreal HC with several other Montreal HC players in the off-season to join the new Montreal Wanderers

Montreal Wanderers

The Montreal Wanderers were a Canadian amateur, and later becoming a professional men's ice hockey team. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League , the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , the National Hockey Association and briefly the National Hockey League . The Wanderers are...

 for whom he played continuously until the end of the 1907–08 season. He was captain of the 1906 through 1908 squads.

In the 1906 season, he was sidelined for most of the season with blood poisoning. In the 1907, he was the victim of a blow to the head from Charlie Spittal of the Ottawa Hockey Club

Ottawa Senators (original)

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 for which Spittal was convicted in criminal court. After the 1908 season, he retired, but returned for the 1909–10 season for the Wanderers in the new National Hockey Association

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, helping to win another Stanley Cup title before retiring for good.

Blachford died in Montreal, Quebec in 1965.