{{Short description|Canadian hockey team manager}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}} {{Infobox person |name = Charles Querrie |image = Charles Querrie.jpg |image_size = 175px |caption = Querrie in the 1917–18 season. |birth_name = Charles Laurens Querrie<ref name="obit" /> |birth_date = {{birth date|1877|7|25}} |birth_place = Markham, Ontario, Canada |death_date = {{death date and age|1950|4|5|1877|7|25}} |death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada |occupation = Former ice hockey coach and general manager }} '''Charles Laurens Querrie''' (July 25, 1877 – April 5, 1950) was the first General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, at the time called the Toronto Arenas (1917–20) and the Toronto St. Patricks (1920–27).
Querrie was born in Markham, Ontario, around the area now known as Victoria Square.
==Career== Querrie won two Stanley Cups with the team, in 1917–18 and again in 1921–22. Prior to his career in hockey coaching and management, Querrie was a prominent lacrosse player in amateur and professional leagues in his hometown of Markham (member of Lacrosse Hall of Fame) as well as in Toronto.<ref name="obit">"Charlie Querrie: Noted Canadian Sportsman; Lacrosse Ace; Hockey Figure", ''The Globe and Mail'', April 6, 1950, pg. 18</ref>
In 1927 Querrie sold his majority stake of the St. Pat's to Conn Smythe, who had purchased the team along with several partners including St. Pat's minority owner Jack Bickell.
He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a field player in 1965, the first year of inductees.
==Later years== He died on April 5, 1950, at Toronto General Hospital of a heart attack.<ref name="obit" />
==Coaching record== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"|Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="7"|Regular Season !! colspan="1"|Post Season |- ! G !! W !! L !! T !! OTL !! Pts !!Finish !! Result |- !Toronto St. Patricks||1922–23 |19||11||7||1||–||23||3rd in NHL||Did not qualify |- !Toronto St. Patricks||1923–24 |24||10||14||0||–||20||3rd in NHL||Did not qualify |- !Toronto St. Patricks||1926–27 |29||8||17||4||–||20||5th in Canadian||Resigned |- ! colspan="2"|Total ||72||29||38||5 |}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Toronto Arena Company | title = Principal owner, Toronto Maple Leafs | years = 1919–1927 | after = Conn Smythe}} {{succession box | before = Position created | title = General Manager of the Toronto <br> Arenas/St. Particks/Maple Leafs | years = 1917–27 | after = Conn Smythe}} {{succession box | before = George O'Donoghue<br>Eddie Powers | title = Head coach of the Toronto St. Patricks | years = 1922-24<br>1926-27 | after = Eddie Powers<br>Mike Rodden}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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