Icelander: The great Frank Fredrickson died on a Monday of this date in 1979. He was 84. Born in Winnipeg in 1895 to parents who’d immigrated from Iceland, he first turned out as a centreman for the predominantly Icelandic Winnipeg Falcons in 1913-14. By 1916, almost to a man, the roster had enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Fredrickson started in the infantry before heading skyward with the Royal Flying Corps. He captained the Falcons to gold at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, then turned pro with the PCHA Victoria Aristocrats. Only after he won a Stanley Cup championship with the Victoria Cougars in 1925 did he get to the NHL, starring for the Bruins in Boston from 1926 to 1929. He went on to play for the Pittsburgh Pirates (he coached them, too) and the Detroit Falcons. After he retired, Fredrickson coached, steering both the Princeton University Tigers and the UBC Thunderbirds, before turning to a career in insurance. Frank Fredrickson was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958.