AHL great Liscombe dies at 89
February 25, 2004 - American Hockey League (AHL) News Release
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ... Carl Liscombe, a two-time American Hockey League Most Valuable Player and the first professional hockey player ever to record 100 points in a season, died Monday of complications from leukemia. He was 89.
With the AHL's Providence Reds in 1947-48, Liscombe recorded 50 goals and 118 points in 68 games, setting a pro hockey record for scoring. He was the first recipient of the league's Les Cunningham Award as regular season MVP, winning in both 1948 and 1949.
Liscombe's 118-point season also earned him the first Wally Kilrea Trophy as the league's top scorer. Because he broke Kilrea's AHL scoring record, the award was renamed the Carl Liscombe Trophy in his honor from 1948-55.
Liscombe was a First Team AHL All-Star in 1948 and a Second Team selection in 1949, when he led the Reds to the Calder Cup championship after scoring 55 goals in the regular season, an AHL record that would stand for 34 years.
A native of Perth, Ont., Liscombe spent parts of eight seasons in the AHL with the Pittsburgh Hornets (1936-38), Indianapolis Capitals (1939-41), St. Louis Flyers (1946-47) and Providence Reds (1946-50). He also played nine years in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings, capturing a Stanley Cup in 1943.
Liscombe died Monday night in Hawaii, where he was living with his daughter, Susan.
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