A colourful winger known as “The Entertainer,” he was a member of the last four Toronto teams to win the Stanley Cup.
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Eddie Shack, one of the most beloved of all Maple Leafs, died Saturday night from throat cancer at age 83.
He once knocked out two New York Rangers on one play, gave Gordie Howe a concussion and head-butted Montreal’s Henri Richard during a scuffle in a playoff game. Later, Henri’s brother, Maurice, told Mr. Shack, who had a pronounced nose, “Thank God you never hit my brother with your nose or you would have split him in two.”
He won Stanley Cups with Toronto in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967, and last played in the league for the Maple Leafs during the 1974-75 season. Tributes began to pour in Sunday from across the league, and even from Quebec Premier Francois Legault. Spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens would chant “We want Shack” as the third-line forward sat on the bench, and he would occasionally indulge them by standing with arms raised to get them to chant louder.
A year later he scored the cup-winning goal at Maple Leaf Gardens in Game 5 against the Detroit Red Wings. He claimed afterward that the puck had deflected off his backside as he was trying get out of the way.
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