{"id":454039,"date":"2026-02-11T04:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/454039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:11:13","slug":"unsung-rangers-from-yesteryear-bill-moe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/454039\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsung Rangers From Yesteryear: Bill Moe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Bill Moe was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, he cut his puck teeth in Minneapolis, and eventually turned pro with the AHL Hershey Bears.<\/p>\n<p>In 1944, the Blueshirts traded four players for Moe who, by this time, had developed a near perfect hip check.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After watching Bill spill enemy forwards with his crouching body blocks, the football-minded New York sportswriters dubbed him &#8220;The Best Blocking Back In Hockey..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Acme photographer Andy Lopez won a prize for his photo in 1947 of Moe turning Maple Leafs forward Gaye Stewart upside down with one of Bill&#8217;s patented whack jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The flat of Stewart&#8217;s head was touching the ice while Gaye&#8217;s skate blades were pointing to the old MSG ceiling!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Moe didn&#8217;t get a penalty on the play but Stewart exited with a migraine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Bill Moe was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, he cut his puck teeth in Minneapolis, and eventually turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[55144,55146,55145,5,8455,20,1805,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-454039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-bill-moe","9":"tag-danvers","10":"tag-gaye-stewart","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-journal-news","13":"tag-maple-leafs","14":"tag-massachusetts","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-rangers","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkrangers","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116050046726343158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}