Pete Green (ice hockey)

Green was hired by Ottawa Hockey Club as a trainer. Ottawa would participate in challenging for the Stanley Cup for the second time ever on March 7–8, 1903. They beat the Montreal Victorias on goals to win the Cup for the first time in nine years. Over the next three years, they would be participate in eleven further challenges for the Cup and they would win all but the last one, holding the Cup from March 1903 to March 14–17, 1906. In 1908, he was promoted to head coach to replace Alf Smith. who left to join the Kenora Thistles. The 1908–09 team went 10–2

They won the Cup for the first time in three years as champion of the Eastern Canada Hockey Association, having gone 10–2 in the regular season. They competed in four challenges for the Cup over the next two years (going 9–3 in 1909–10 and 13–3 in 1910–11, both spent in the newly formed National Hockey Association), and they won all of them to hold the Cup from 1909 to March 16, 1911. The team went 9–9 in the following 1911–12 season and lost the chance to tie for the league title with the Quebec Bulldogs after losing a replayed game to end the year. They went 9-11 in the 1912–13 season, tied for third with two other teams. He left Ottawa after the season, having gone 50-28 in five seasons.

In 1919, he was re-hired to coach Ottawa. Green won three more Stanley Cups as a coach in 1920, 1921, and 1922. He is one of eleven coaches to have won the Stanley Cup three times as head coach, and he did so on the strength of six playoff appearances, the least among the eleven to have won three. Owing to his short tenure, he has the least games managed among the eleven, but his winning percentage is second best among the eleven, although Green is the only one to not be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. [1][2]

He died at an Ottawa hospital aged 66 after a short illness (heart condition) on September 22, 1934.[3][4]