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Danny Lewicki

Class of 2001

Summary

🏅 Inducted in 2001
🏒 Hockey
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Biography

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.