Athlete: Hockey
Year to be Inducted: 2026
Date of Birth: June 18, 1906
Born in: Sussex, New Brunswick

Joe Lamb, a Lieutenant-Colonel and Canadian Armed Forces World War II veteran, led an incredible sports career in the early National Hockey League and in golf.

Lamb was born in Sussex, New Brunswick as one of eight children to the town’s mayor. He began playing senior amateur hockey at age 16 in Sussex and then moved to Montreal to play junior with the Royals before soon joining the Montreal Victorias for a 14-game exhibition tour of Europe where Lamb scored 28 goals.

Lamb had an exceptional run for seven teams over 11 seasons in the NHL, scoring 110 goals and 101 assists in 443 games from 1928 to 1938.

He played for the original Ottawa Senators before the club missed a year and ultimately folded, collecting 29 goals, 20 assists and a league-leading 119 penalty minutes in 44 games during his last season in Ottawa.

A loyal and confident heavy hitter, Lamb also played for the Montreal Maroons, the New York Americans, the Boston Bruins, the Montreal Canadiens, the St. Louis Eagles and the Detroit Red Wings.

He finished his pro hockey career with the Springfield Indians of the International American Hockey League before turning his focus to the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps as WWII began.

The order and the discipline of the military suited Lamb’s style, and the Member of the British Empire rose to the rank of Lieut.-Col. before retiring in 1958.

All the while, Lamb collected numerous golf titles, including the 1936 Maritime Men’s Golf Championship, the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club men’s crown in 1938, 1939, 1947 and 1959, and the 1949 Ottawa District Golf Association men’s title.

Lamb served on the ODGA and Ottawa Valley Curling Association executives and is an honorary life member of the Canadian Curling Association and the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club.

He was the first player to wear number 99 in the NHL.