==Playing career==Born in Montreal, Quebec, Blachford played junior hockey for Montreal Mintos in 1898–99, before graduating to senior-level hockey the following season with Montreal Stirling, for which he played until 1902.
V letih 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908 in 1910 je osvojil Stanleyjev pokal, leta 1906 in 1908 v kapetanski vlogi.