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244:. Elmer was the youngest of two boys and four girls born to William and Mary-Ann Lach, who arrived in Canada from Eastern Europe in 1910. Lach's father was at first a farmer, then took a job as the head of public works for Nokomis, population 550. Lach played ice hockey for his school team, starting at age 12. Against the wishes of his Baptist parents, Elmer would sneak away to play ice hockey on a local pond instead of attending church on Saturday mornings.
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paid Lach $ 100 for his rights, "more money than I'd had in my pocket in my life.". He came to the
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was a favourite pastime of Lach's. He played it into his 90s and for a while could match his age in his score. He met his second wife, Lise, while golfing. Part of his job entertaining clients with
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432:, curator of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the 1950s, any pictorial record of the 1940s NHL would have to include prints of Lach's X-rays. Lach was injured so many times that he was offered $ 17,000 (enough for a house at the time) by his health insurance company to retire from hockey.
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383:Stanley Cup
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313:Paul Haynes
301:Tony Demers
261:Conn Smythe
211:Hart Trophy
2172:Categories
2142:Babe Pratt
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1962:NBC Sports
1574:January 1,
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446:Later life
344:Punch line
332:Dick Irvin
321:NHL season
232:Early life
199:Punch line
183:ice hockey
129:Played for
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27:Elmer Lach
2113:Herb Cain
430:Ted Reeve
340:Toe Blake
269:Vancouver
207:Toe Blake
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