Bobby Baun
Neil Robert "Bobby" Baun ( born September 9, 1936 in Lanigan, Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his playing days in 1952 to 1973 among others for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Oakland Seals and Detroit Red Wings the National Hockey League has played.
Career
Bobby Baun began his career as a hockey player with the Toronto Marlboros, for those in the Ontario Hockey Association, he was active from 1952 to 1956 and with whom he 1955 and 1956 respectively the first J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHA champion and the Memorial Cup won. He subsequently received a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs, for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the season 1956/57. He also came in his rookie year to 46 inserts for Toronto's farm team, the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League, for whom he scored 15 scorer points, including two goals. With Toronto, first eleven years stood for the Baun on the ice, won the right shooter in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967, four times in the prestigious Stanley Cup. He subsequently received a contract with Toronto's domestic rivals Oakland Seals, for which he attended for the fifth time in his career at the NHL All-Star Game in 1968. After only one year Baun signed with the Detroit Red Wings, for which he was active for another two seasons in the NHL, before returning to the start of the 1970/71 season to the Maple Leafs, where he in 1973 his active career ended.
In the 1975/76 season Baun took over as coach for the Toronto Toros of the World Hockey Association, with whom he clearly missed the playoffs as head coach was the last of the Canadian Division in its single station.