(featured image, left-to-right: Tom Renney, Kalli Quinn, Jim Gregory, Serge Savard, Curtis Lazar, Matt Duchene)
Pat Quinn patrolled the Leafs blue line for 99 regular season games, infamously crushing Bobby Orr during the 1969 playoffs.
Behind the Toronto bench, his 300 career wins are second in franchise history only to Punch Imlach.
Quite simply, “he was a Leaf.” That was the sentiment echoed by his daughter Kalli, accepting the Order of Hockey in Canada on behalf of her late father in Toronto on Wednesday.
Hockey Canada also recognized former Leafs general manager Jim Gregory and Montreal Canadiens and Team Canada alumnus Serge Savard for the honour.