By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tom_Samworth]Tom Samworth
The Sudbury Wolves began play as an Ontario major junior hockey team for the 1972-73 season. The Wolves were the reincarnation of the Niagara Falls Flyers, a team that was once the Barrie Flyers. Since then, the team has been to the Robertson Cup finals just twice and has yet to win the championship.
The Sudbury Wolves have retired the numbers of three players. All three played within the short time span between 1973 and 1979.
Number 6 is retired by the Wolves for Randy Carlyle. Better known now as the head coach of the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, Carlyle played three years in Sudbury from 1973-74 to 1975-76. He was an OMJHL All-Star in his final season, scoring 15 goals, assisting on 67 for a total of 83 points from the blue line in just 60 games.
Randy Carlyle was a second round pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft, 30thoverall. He was also a seventh overall pick of the Cincinnati Stingers in the WHA Amateur Draft but chose the NHL route. Carlyle played in the National Hockey League from 1976-77 to 1992-93 with Toronto, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets. He won the Norris Trophy as the league's top defenseman in 1980-81 while contributing 83 points for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Carlyle played a total of 1055 regular season games, only one of two players from the 1976 amateur draft that would see 1000 games. Bernie Federko was the other to accomplish the feat. Randy has been head coach of the Anaheim Ducks since 2005-06, winning the Stanley Cup in just his second season.
Number 10 is retired for hometown boy, Ron Duguay. Duguay played for the rel=nofollow [http://www.ohlalumnicentral.com/sudbury-wolves/]Sudbury Wolves for four seasons from 1973-74 to 1976-77. His top season with Sudbury came in 1975-76 when he totalled 134 points. That total was good for seventh in the league. His 92 assists from that season still stand today as a single season team record. He helped the team to the Robertson Cup finals that season where they lost to the Hamilton Fincups.
The following season, his numbers dropped to 109 points but the New York Rangers liked what they saw, selecting Duguay 13thoverall in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft. The Winnipeg Jets selected him third overall in the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft. Ron played in the NHL from 1977-78 to 1988-89 with the Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Los Angeles Kings.
Number 17 is retired in honour of Mike Foligno. Mike played four seasons with the Wolves from 1975-76 to 1978-79. His top numbers came in his final season when he scored 65 goals and totalled 150 points. The 150 points remains a team single season record.
The Detroit Red Wings took Foligno third overall in the 1979 NHL Amateur Draft. Mike played over 1000 NHL regular season games from 1979-80 to 1993-94 with Detroit, the Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers.
Foligno coached the Sudbury Wolves from 2003-04 to 2009-10. He joined former Sudbury teammate Randy Carlyle behind the Anaheim Ducks bench this past season as the assistant coach.
Tom is the author of http://www.ohlalumnicentral.com/ (OHL Alumni Central). OHL Alumni Central is a daily updated blog featuring graduates of the Ontario Hockey League and their careers in professional hockey after leaving the OHL.
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