Inductee Type: Athlete

Former NHL player Mark Napier began his career with the Toronto Marlies, winning the Memorial Cup in 1975. His professional career began in the WHA with the Toronto Toros in 1975 where he won Rookie of the Year award.

Mark played 6 years with the Montreal Canadiens, winning the Stanley Cup before being traded to the Minnesota North Stars for a year.

After two and a half years playing for the Edmonton Oilers and another Stanley Cup in 1985, Mark spent two and a half years with the Buffalo Sabres.

He played in Europe in the Italian league. He led the league in scoring while playing in Milano for two years, winning the Italian championship both years.

Mark lent his time coaching the Humber Valley Midget A A team and was appointed first head coach of the Toronto St Michael’s Majors OHL Junior A team.

Clarke Pulford was born in Newton Robinson and grew up in Weston, a talented and skilled all-round athlete from a family of athletes. He played football and hockey for Weston Collegiate, junior lacrosse for his local league and Junior B hockey for Woodbridge, winning the Ontario Hockey Association Junior B Championship in 1954.

At the University of Western Ontario, where he studied Physical and Health Education, he played football and hockey for the varsity teams.

On graduation, he was drafted – ninth overall – by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but he had always wanted to teach high school, and went to the Ontario College of Education instead. He started at Northern Secondary School the next year and remained there until his retirement, teaching physical education and math, and coaching senior football, junior and senior hockey, swimming, and track and field.

During his thirty-five year career he coached eleven TSSAA Senior football championship teams. One of those teams went on to win the Metro Bowl, and one of his hockey teams won the Toronto District Catholic Athletic Association Junior Championship. In 1970, he coached the Lakeshore Maple Leafs Junior Minto Cup champions.

Several of the players he coached and taught went on to pursue successful professional football careers. He himself continued playing and coaching lacrosse outside of school – he played (forward) for the Brampton Excelsiors and coached the Toronto Maple Leafs professional lacrosse team, as well as junior lacrosse.

In honour of his personal accomplishments in sport and the outstanding contribution he made to young athletes, the new sports field at Northern Secondary School has been named the Clarke Pulford Field, after him.

Clarke and his wife Joan now live in Stouffville. They have two children, Sandi and Jill and 5 grandchildren.

Bruce Driver was born in Etobicoke in 1962. At 4 he started playing organized hockey here, showing early promise that never failed him.

He moved into the Metro Toronto Hockey League in 1970, was named a Toronto Telegram all-star and played on 4 MTHL championship teams. He stayed with the MTHL through 1980, ending up with the provincial Junior A Royal York Royals. In his second year with them, Bruce was top league scorer among defencemen and voted onto the all-star team.

The Oshawa Generals of the OHL drafted him, but instead he accepted a hockey scholarship at the University of Wisconsin. During his 4 years with the Wisconsin Badgers, they won 2 NCAA Championships. Bruce became captain by his second year and an all-American, as well as an NCAA all-star. He was drafted by the Colorado Rockies – a New Jersey Devils team – and inducted into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame.

At Sarajevo in ‘84 he was top-scorer among defenceman on the Canadian Olympic Team. His sweater is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

After Sarajevo, he went to the Maine Mariners in the AHL, helping win the Calder Cup. He started with the Devils next, staying with them for 12 seasons, some as assistant captain, and then for a year as captain. In 1995, he brought the Stanley cup home to Etobicoke.

He retired in 1998, after 3 years with the New York Rangers, and 15 seasons of professional hockey.

A true sportsman, Bruce accumulated fewer than 700 minutes in penalties in over 1,000 NHL games. The New York/New Jersey media presented him with the “Good Guy Award” for his leadership and dignity as a player.

In his free time, he coaches youth hockey and baseball, helping to repay those who sacrificed their time for him when he was a boy.

Eddie Litzenberger was born in 1932 in Neudorf, Saskatchewan. He played Junior Hockey with the Regina Pats, and was signed by the Montreal Canadiens in the early 50s.

He debuted with Montreal in 1954, and was selected as the NHL’s rookie of the year. He was soon traded to Chicago, where he was a 30-goal scorer for the Black Hawks three years running, making him one of the consistent top scorers in the league at the time.

While playing with the Black Hawks in 1955, he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy.

In 1961, as Captain of the Hawks, Eddie led the club to a Stanley Cup victory, but was then quickly traded to Detroit, and then onto Toronto. As a Leaf, he played on three consecutive Stanley Cup teams, 1962, 1963 and 1964.

The right-winger, rounded out his NHL career with 178 goals and 238 assists for 416 points in 618 regular season NHL games.

He hung his skates in 1966, but went on to a successful business career in the Stock Market and later, a family owned construction company.

Eddie returned to Chicago in 1996 along with many of the 1961 Stanley Cup team to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their win.

His three children, sons Dean and John, and daughter Kelly, all attended Richview Collegiate. Ed and his wife Gayle have lived in Etobicoke for more than 45 years.

Dennis grew up in Etobicoke where he started playing hockey at eight years of age. He began his OHA career with the Toronto Marlies and was later traded to the London Knights.

In the 1975-76 season he was drafted by the California Golden Seals, which after its demise, resurfaced as the Cleveland Barons. That club folded and was later absorbed by the Minnesota North Stars, Dennis included.

Dennis was later traded to the Washington Capitols and became one of the NHL’s top scorers. In his second full season with the club he scored 50 goals. The next year, 1981, he scored 60 goals and 76 assists for a total of 136 points. Today only eight players in history have equalled or surpassed his single season point totals.

Dennis finished his NHL career with the Minnesota North Stars in 1989, ending a stellar 16-year career.

Dennis has three children and lives with his wife, Kimberly, in Aspen, Colorado, where he works at the historic Hotel Jerome.

David was born in Etobicoke on May 15, 1964, and lived there with his parents and two brothers until 1981 when he was drafted by the Peterborough Petes of the O.H.L. He played there for 3 seasons enjoying a successful junior career.

In 1982, David was drafted 60th overall by the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. In December of 1983 he played his first game with the Boston Bruins and from 1984 to 1988 David continued to play with the Bruins organization. He signed in 1988 as a free agent with the team he idolized as a child, the Toronto Maple Leafs.

He wore the blue and white for 3 years, and in the ’90-’91 season led the NHL with 8 shorthanded goals. A feat which tied Dave Keons’ 21 year old Maple Leaf record. David moved back to Boston as a free agent and played the next 5 seasons with the Bruins.

In 1996, David signed as a Free Agent with the Dallas Stars where he played for 3 seasons. As a member of the Stars organization, he won his first Stanley Cup in the spring of 1999. In the fall of that year he signed with the Colorado Avalanche and played his final two seasons in the NHL.

In David’s final game of his career in June 2001 he lifted the Stanley Cup for the second time. At the conclusions of 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, David had played 961 regular season games and 118 playoff games.

David is grateful to all of the coaches and volunteers who made his Minor Hockey days so enjoyable. From his first days outdoors at the West Mall Arena with the Eringate Minor Hockey Association, through the West End AC’s to his three best years of minor hockey with the Royal York Rangers of the Etobicoke Hockey Association a passion for the game was fostered in David that remains with him to this day. He attributes his desire to help in Minor Hockey in his community to the wonderful start he had in Etobicoke.

Upon retirement from playing in 200 I, David began a new career as a Hockey Analyst with the NHL Network and TSN. David resides in Ennismore, Ontario with his wife of 18 years, Kathy and their two children, Jessica and Alec.

Dave Dryden was born in Hamilton. He was raised in Etobicoke, where he became actively involved in hockey and baseball. He played minor baseball in the early years of the Kingsway Baseball League, and assisted in coaching atom baseball and hockey with his father.

He played minor hockey with the KI/Y, T.H.L and King Clancy leagues before beginning his junior hockey career with St Mike’s and the Toronto Marlboroughs. He later played senior hockey with the Galt Hornets.

During his NHL career, Dave goal-tended for the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres and the Edmonton Oilers. He played for the Chicago Cougars and the Edmonton Oilers while in the W.H.A. It was in his last season in the W.H.A that he won the league’s Most Valuable Player award.

Dave was one of three goaltenders who transformed modern goaltending and pioneered the redesign of goaltending equipment which has generated the contemporary goaltending style.