This photo of Hib shows a much rougher looking man than the photos of his time in Pittsburgh. Perhaps the years of rough play and drinking were beginning to take their toll.

-- From LostHockey.com's profile of Hib Milks, who scored a team-leading 17 goals for the Philadelphia Quakers, perhaps the worst team in NHL history, in their one season of play in 1930-31.

Pacifism was not the Quakers' byword:

With former referee Cooper Smeaton as their coach the Quakers were made up of a bunch of toughs that preferred to fight rather then play. The ugliest incident involving the Quakers came on Christmas Day when police had to come onto the ice and break up a fight they were having with the Boston Bruins. The Quakers goon squad would put together one of the worst season in NHL history as they won just 4 games on the way to finishing in last place with a horrible 4-36-4 record.

Another Quaker profiled at LostHockey.com is D'arcy Coulson:

Despite not being a "big" man, he was obviously not afraid to throw his weight around. He managed to rack up a league leading 89 penalty minutes in 20 regular season games, another 26 minutes in the 6 post-season games, and yet another 23 in his 7 games in Chicago. This trend continued in his only NHL season with the Philadelphia Quakers, where in only 28 games, roughly a half season, he was third in penalty minutes in the league with 103. His granddaughter claims that on the night his second child was born, D'arcy was away playing hockey, and took his frustration about missing the event out on his opponents.

Quaker Stanley Crossett went on to serve as sergeant of a gun crew in the Second World War and was photographed receiving the king and queen of England on an inspection tour.

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The Hockey Hall of Fame multimedia gallery has a collection of vignettes on the Legends of Hockey that aired a few years back, I believe, on ESPN Classic. (Scroll down to "Legends Spotlight.") The small size of the clips is a bit annoying, but the tributes to old-time hockey greats are wonderful: I particularly appreciated the installments on Bobby Orr and Milt Schmidt, and on old-school goalies Gump Worsley and Glenn Hall, who played more than 500 consecutive games without a mask. The piece on Terry Sawchuk is rather sad.

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More old-time hockey: Goalies Archive chronicles the goaltending history of every NHL team * Gerry Cheevers sans trademark stitched mask, and looking about 12 as a Leafs rookie * All 809 players to wear the Spoked B are profiled at Bruins Legends * Goalies in ball-caps and Montreal Maroons galore at the Bee Hive Hockey Photo Museum * USA Today hockey columnist Ted Montgomery calls Bobby Orr the best player of all time. No argument here.