Dick Duff
Terrence Richard " Dick" Duff ( born February 18, 1936 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who from 1954 to 1972 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Dick Duff began his career as a hockey player with the Toronto St. Michael's Majors, for which he was active from 1952 to 1955 in the Ontario Hockey Association. He was then obliged by the Toronto Maple Leafs, for whom he played the next nine years in the National Hockey League and with whom he 1962 and 1963 twice won the prestigious Stanley Cup over the years. On February 22, 1964 Duff was released along with Arnie Brown, Bob Nevin, Bill Collins and Rod Seiling in exchange for Andy Bathgate and Don McKenney to the New York Rangers, but he had to leave already at the end, after the Rangers to Canadians transferred to the Montréal Canadiens, with whom he won four times the Stanley Cup in the next five years. After nearly a year with the Los Angeles Kings Duff joined in November 1970 again the club and the Buffalo Sabres joined them, where he ended his playing career after the 1971/72 season.
Following his playing career, Duff returned to the Toronto Maple Leafs and worked as a scout, finally from 1979 to 1981 as an assistant coach of the NHL team, and in the meantime for two games of the season 1979/80 even as the head coach of the Maple Leafs.
On 13 November 2006 Duff, who won six Stanley Cups with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens, as well as participated seven times in the NHL All-Star Game, was admitted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.