Ron Stewart
Ron George Stewart ( born July 11, 1932 in Calgary, Alberta; † 22 March 2012) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active years from 1949 to 1973 among others for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers, Vancouver Canucks and New York Islanders played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Ron Stewart began his career as a hockey player in the Ontario Hockey Association, in which he was active from 1949 to 1952 for the Toronto Marlboros, Barrie Flyers and Guelph Biltmores. In his last OHA year he won the Memorial Cup with Guelph. Then the attacker received a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs, for whom he played for the next 13 years in the National Hockey League and with whom he won the Stanley Cup in a row in 1962, 1963 and 1964 three times. In the summer of 1965, Stewart was released to the Boston Bruins, where he spent another two seasons in the NHL. After he started the 1967/68 season with the St. Louis Blues, he changed the course of the season to their league rivals New York Rangers, for whom he stood until 1971 on the ice. During his time in New York in 1970 it came to a fight with his roommate and teammate Terry Sawchuk, in which Sawchuk was so badly injured that he died in hospital a week later.
In the 1971/72 season Stewart played for the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL before he was sold back to the Rangers during the season, for which he played until the end of the season as well as for their farm team, the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League. With New York the Canadians failed in the finals for the Stanley Cup to his former club Boston Bruins. In his last season, the 1972/73 season, Stewart was only used sporadically, where he was delivered to the New York Islanders during the year.
Following his playing career Stewart took first in the 1973/74 season the position as head coach of the Portland Buckaroos of the Western Hockey League, before he in 1975 with the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League Calder Cup won. For the 1975/76 season the Canadians returned as coach of the New York Rangers of the NHL before he finished in the season 1977/78 with the Los Angeles Kings his short coaching career.
He died on 22 March 2012 at the age of 79 years.