Samuel Milton Halliday was a Canadian

Canada

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 professional ice hockey

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 player. He played in the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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 (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators

Ottawa Senators (original)

The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...

 from 1926 until 1929, and was a member of the Stanley Cup

Stanley Cup

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-winning team of 1927.

Playing career

Born in Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Ontario

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, Halliday made the jump to NHL hockey from the amateur ranks of the Ottawa Gunners of the Ottawa City Hockey League

Ottawa City Hockey League

The Ottawa City Hockey League was an amateur ice hockey league with junior, intermediate and senior level men's teams in Ottawa, Canada dating from 1890. It is considered the second ice hockey league to form in Canada. The senior league operated until 1945 and the junior league operated until 1957...

, joining the hometown Ottawa Senators for the 1926–27 season

1926–27 Ottawa Senators season

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. Halliday would play on a line with Hec Kilrea

Hec Kilrea

Hector Joseph "Hurricane" Kilrea was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. He played for the Ottawa Senators, Detroit Falcons, Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League...

 and Jack Duggan

Jack Duggan

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. That season, the Senators would defeat the Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

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 in the Stanley Cup championship, in the first final series between two NHL teams.

In the following two seasons, Halliday would split his time between the Senators and minor pro teams in London, Ontario

London, Ontario

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 and Niagara Falls, Ontario

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 of the Canadian Pro minor league. After the 1928–29 season, Halliday would not play in the NHL again, traded by Ottawa to Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

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 of the International League. He would play the rest of his career for various minor professional teams of the International League and the Can-Am

Canadian-American Hockey League

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leagues. He left professional hockey in 1936 to return to Ottawa, where he played two seasons as a reinstated amateur player for the Ottawa Montagnards of the Ottawa City League before retiring from competitive hockey.

Transactions

• October 24, 1926 - Signed as a free agent with Ottawa (NHL)
• November 7, 1929 - Traded from Ottawa (NHL) to Hamilton (IHL) for cash
• January 5, 1932 - Traded from Hamilton (IHL) to Cleveland (IHL) for Stew Dunning
• December 18, 1935 - Signed as free agent with Buffalo (IHL)
• February 7, 1936 - Signed as a free agent with Rochester (IHL)

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