Editing Toe Blake (section)

{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| name = Toe Blake<br />{{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}}
| image =ToeBlakeChex.jpg
| image_size = 230px
| caption = Blake in the 1960s
| position = [[Winger (ice hockey)|Left wing]]
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 10
| weight_lb = 162
| played_for = [[Montreal Maroons]]<br>[[Montreal Canadiens]]
| league = [[National Hockey League|NHL]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|8|21}}
| birth_place =[[Walden, Ontario|Victoria Mines, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|5|17|1912|8|21}}
| death_place = [[Montreal, Quebec]], Canada
| career_start = 1934
| career_end = 1951
| halloffame = 1966
}}

'''Joseph Hector''' "'''Toe'''" '''Blake''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (August 21, 1912 – May 17, 1995) was a Canadian [[ice hockey]] [[Player (game)|player]] and [[Coach (ice hockey)|coach]] in the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL). Blake played in the NHL from 1935 to 1948 with the [[Montreal Maroons]] and [[Montreal Canadiens]]. He led the NHL in scoring in [[1938–39 NHL season|1939]], while also winning the [[Hart Trophy]] for most valuable player, and served as [[captain (ice hockey)|captain]] of the Canadiens from 1940 to his retirement. He won the [[Stanley Cup]] three times as a player: in [[1935 Stanley Cup Finals|1935]] with the Maroons, and in [[1944 Stanley Cup Finals|1944]] and [[1946 Stanley Cup Finals|1946]] with the Canadiens. While with the Canadiens Blake played on a line with [[Elmer Lach]] and [[Maurice Richard]] which was dubbed the [[Punch line (ice hockey)|Punch line]], as all three were highly-skilled players. In 2017 Blake was named one of the '[[100 Greatest NHL Players]]' in history. He was also known as "'''The Old Lamplighter'''"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toe Blake |url=https://www.hhof.com/HonouredMembers/MemberDetails.html?type=Player&mem=P196602&list=ByName}}</ref> due to his skill for putting the puck in the net. 

Blake retired as a player in 1951, and soon after turned to coaching. After several years in lower leagues he was named the Canadiens' coach in 1955, and would remain in that role until his retirement in 1968. As coach of the Canadiens he won the Stanley Cup a further eight times, and helped Montreal become one of the most dominant teams in NHL history.