Many decades before the cannon blasts of Zdeno Chara and Shea Weber, and of Al MacInnis and Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion and other thunderous shooters before them, there was the man known as "The Big Bomber."

Charlie Conacher, the second captain in Toronto Maple Leafs history after Clarence "Hap" Day, possessed the most fearsome shot of the 1930s, the rockets off his heavy wooden stick a terrifying sight for maskless, thinly padded goaltenders; that is, when the goalies saw the puck at all.

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NOTES & TRANSACTIONS

• NHL Second All-Star Team (1932, 1933)
• NHL First All-Star Team (1934, 1935, 1936)
• Played in NHL All-Star Game (1934, 1937)
• Signed as a free agent by Toronto, October 7, 1929.
• Traded to Detroit by Toronto for $16,000 with Detroit holding option of contract renewal, October 12, 1938.
• Rights returned to Toronto by Detroit after Detroit failed to renew contract, July 1, 1939.
• Traded to NY Americans by Toronto for future considerations (cash, May 21, 1940), September 22, 1939.