1940 Ranger Dutch Hiller, 90
Posted: Saturday, November 19th, 2005 6:46 amDutch Hiller, one of the three surviving players from the Rangers’ 1940 Stanley Cup hockey champions, died Saturday at a hospital in Glendale, Calif. He was 90 and lived in Montrose, Calif.
The cause was congestive heart failure, his daughter Patricia Ornelas said.
Hiller’s death leaves only Clint Smith, 91, and Alf Pike, 88, as the surviving members of the 1940 championship team. The Rangers did not win the Stanley Cup again for 54 years.
At 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds, Hiller was a left wing who sometimes played wearing glasses. John Halligan, the National Hockey League’s historian, said Hiller was considered the fastest skater of his era. Smith, Hiller’s teammate, once said “Nobody, not in the entire league, could keep up with Dutch. When he got the puck alone, you just didn’t get it back.” … Read full obituary
