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{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image = Roy Rickey, Seattle Metropolitans.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Roy Rickey with the [[Seattle Metropolitans]] in the 1916–17 season
| position = [[Defenceman|Defence]]
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| played_for = Saskatoon Wholesalers (SPHL) <br/> [[Seattle Metropolitans]] (PCHA) <br /> [[Edmonton Eskimos (ice hockey)|Edmonton Eskimos]] (WCHL)
| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|11|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|9|6|1893|11|15}}
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| career_start = 1915
| career_end = 1928
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'''Roy Allison Rickey''' (November 15, 1893 – September 6, 1959) was a Canadian professional [[ice hockey]] player who played in the [[Pacific Coast Hockey Association]] and [[Western Canada Hockey League]].  He played for the [[Seattle Metropolitans]] and [[Edmonton Eskimos (ice hockey)|Edmonton Eskimos]].  He won a [[Stanley Cup]] with the Metropolitans in [[1917 Stanley Cup Finals|1917]].

==Playing career==
Born in [[Ottawa]], Ontario, Rickey began his professional career in the 1911–12 season with the Saskatoon Wholesalers of the Saskatchewan Professional League.

Rickey joined the Seattle Metropolitans in 1915, played eight seasons for the Metropolitans, and was a member of the 1917 Stanley Cup champions. He also played in the [[1919 Stanley Cup Finals]] with the Metropolitans, but the series against the [[Montreal Canadiens]] was cancelled at 2-2 because of the [[Spanish flu]]. Rickey himself was at the Providence Hospital in Seattle with a high fever.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AN1fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VG0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=3295,2215368&dq=roy+rickey&hl=en "Joe Hall Critical Condition"] ''The Saskatoon Phoenix'', April 4, 1919 (pg. 5). Retrieved 2021-05-29.</ref>

In 1924, Rickey joined the Edmonton Eskimos. In 1925, his contract was sold by the Eskimos to the [[New York Americans]], but he did not join the team. After the Western Canada Hockey League folded in 1926, Rickey played in the Can-Pro League, playing two further seasons for Hamilton and Niagara Falls before retiring from professional play.

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==External links==
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[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:1959 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian ice hockey defencemen]]
[[Category:Edmonton Eskimos (ice hockey) players]]
[[Category:Ice hockey people from Ottawa]]
[[Category:Seattle Metropolitans players]]
[[Category:Stanley Cup champions]]
[[Category:Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen]]


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