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.