Babe Dye Cecil Henry " Babe " Dye ( May 13 , 1898 – January 2 , 1962 ) was a Canadian professional forward who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto St . Pats , Chicago Black Hawks , New York Americans and Toronto Maple Leafs . He was the NHL ' s top goal scorer of the 1920s and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame . He also played professional baseball and played football with the Toronto Argonauts . Playing career . Born in Hamilton , Ontario , Dye moved to Toronto when he was one year old , following the death of his father . He played junior hockey from 1916 to 1918 for the Toronto Aura Lee and De La Salle Academy of the Ontario Hockey Association . As a senior , he played for the amateur Toronto St Patricks in 1918 – 19 , and then turned professional with the Toronto St . Patricks NHL team in 1919 . A slow skater , Dye was known for his hard and accurate shot . He played with the St . Pats for eight seasons , leading the league in goals scored in the 1920 – 21 , 1922 – 23 , and 1924 – 25 seasons , top scorer in 1923 and 1925 , and finishing second in goals scored in 1921 – 22 and 1923 – 24 . He led the St . Patricks to Stanley Cup championship in 1922 , scoring nine goals in the five - game final series . His 38 goals in the 30 - game 1924 – 25 season set a St . Pats / Maple Leafs franchise record that stood for 35 years until broken by Frank Mahovlich in the 70 - game 1960 – 61 season . Over his first six seasons in the NHL , Dye scored 176 goals in 170 games . Dye was loaned to the Hamilton Tigers for that team ' s NHL debut in the first game of the 1920 – 21 season . Dye scored two goals in the game and then returned to the St . Pats for the rest of the season . Dye was also a professional baseball player , beginning his career with the minor league baseball Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League ( baseball ) in 1920 . He was sent to Brantford of the Class B Michigan - Ontario League , popularly known as the Mint League . The Boston Red Sox held an option on Dye but chose not to exercise it . In September 1921 , the Brantford Baseball Club announced that it had sold Dye to the Buffalo Bisons of the IL for the highest price ever paid for a Brantford player . He had a strong season with the Bisons in 1923 , and was then considered a top prospect for the major leagues . In September 1923 , Dye announced that he was retiring from hockey to focus on baseball , but when hockey season started he re - signed with the St . Pats . After hockey season , he rejoined the Bisons for training camp in March 1924 . Dye again played for the Bisons in 1925 , and was sold to the baseball Leafs after the end of the season . He was released by Toronto in July 1926 and signed by the Baltimore Orioles of the International League , where he finished his baseball career that year . Before the 1926 – 27 season , the Toronto St . Pats sold Dye to the Chicago Black Hawks , a new NHL franchise . Dye had an outstanding season in Chicago , again leading the league in goals scored on the NHL ' s highest - scoring team , playing on a line with fellow Hamilton - born player Dick Irvin , who led the league in assists . Unfortunately , both players would soon suffer serious injuries that curtailed their playing careers . At training camp before the next season , Dye ' s leg was broken and he was never the same player again . He went scoreless for the Black Hawks in 10 games in the 1927 – 28 season and was then sold to the New York Americans . Over 42 games in 1928 – 29 , Dye had just one goal for the Americans . In November 1929 , he was traded to the minor league New Haven Eagles of the Canadian - American Hockey League . In February 1930 , he was signed as a free agent by his former team in Toronto , which had been renamed the Maple Leafs . Dye played six games with the club in the 1930 – 31 season before being released . Over his final 58 games in the NHL after his injury in 1927 , Dye had scored just one goal . Other achievements . Following his retirement as a player , Dye became head coach of the Chicago Shamrocks of the American Hockey Association in 1931 – 32 , winning the league title . Despite the team ' s success , Dye was fired just before the championship - winning game because he hadn ' t prevented the team captain from going to Toronto to get married between games of the championship series . Dye said the player was determined to go and there was nothing he could do about it . The Shamrocks ended up folding before the next season began . After hockey , Dye worked for Seneca Petroleum in Chicago for 20 years . He died at the age of 66 in Chicago , where he had been hospitalized for several months following a heart attack . He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1970 . In 1998 , he was ranked number 83 on List of 100 greatest hockey players by The Hockey News .