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Joseph Georges Gonzague Vzina was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven seasons in the National Hockey Association and nine in the National Hockey League , all with the Montreal Canadiens. After being signed by the Canadiens in 1910, Vzina played in 327 consecutive regular season games and a furtherplayoff games, before leaving early during a game in 1925 due to illness. Vzina was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and died on March, 1926.

Georges, the youngest of eight children, was born on January, 1887, in Chicoutimi, Quebec, to Jacques Vzina, a local baker and an immigrant from St. Nicolas de La Rochelle in France, and his wife Clara. The younger Georges attended school at the Petit Sminaire de Chicoutimi until the age of fourteen, when he left the school to help at his fathers bakery. He played hockey from a young age, participating in informal street hockey matches with others his own age. Vzina partook in these matches in his shoes, and used skates for the first time at agewhen he joined the local team in Chicoutimi. As Chicoutimi was in a remote area of Quebec, more than 200 kilometres from Quebec City, the hockey club was not in any organised league. Rather the club, known as the Saguenens , toured the province, playing exhibition games against a variety of clubs.

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