A nine-year veteran of the National Hockey League, Lewicki is a winner
of the Stanley Cup, Allan Cup and Memorial Cup. He pulled off hockey’s
“Triple Crown” while still a junior-aged player between the years of
1948 and 1951. Lewicki is the only player in hockey history to achieve
such a feat.
In 1948 he was on the Memorial Cup-winning Port Arthur Bruins and led
his team in scoring throughout the playdowns, and even notched the
winning goal in overtime of the championship game against the Barrie
Flyers in Maple Leaf Gardens.
As a member of the senior league Toronto Marlboroughs Lewicki was the
leading scorer for the playdowns as the team won the Allan Cup in 1950.
The next year, 1951, Lewicki was a member of the Stanley Cup Champion
Toronto Maple Leafs.
Born in Fort William, Ontario in 1931, Lewicki played most of his minor
and junior hockey near his hometown before joining the senior Toronto
Marlboroughs.
In the NHL, he played four seasons with the Leafs, four with the New
York Rangers and one with the Chicago Blackhawks. In the 1954 season he
scored 29 goals with the Rangers and was named to the NHL All-Star team
as a left winger. He was also second in the voting for the Lady Byng
Trophy that season. During his 457 NHL game career, Lewicki recorded 115
goals and 153 assists.
Lewicki lived in Etobicoke for 10 years and was very involved with
sports in the community at that time. He was the first coach of the
Etobicoke Indians Junior B team in the 1960s which included such players
as Ken Dryden.
Lewicki continued his coaching career with the Hamilton Junior A Red
Wings of the Ontario Hockey Association. He then went on to a business
career while becoming involved with a number of charities including the
“Emmy” gold tournament for research into myelin disease.