The Ontario Hockey League is mourning the loss of one of the game’s great defencemen. Four-time Stanley Cup champion Bob Baun passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86.
Prior to Baun’s greatness with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he was a standout on the blueline with the OHA’s Toronto Marlboros, winning back-to-back Memorial Cup championships in 1955 and 1956.
Baun was a Marlboro for four seasons from 1952-56, recording 47 points (11-36–47) in 170 regular season games along with 11 points (6-5–11) over 46 playoff contests. Toronto defeated the St. Catharines Teepees for the J. Ross Robertson Cup in 1955 before besting the Regina Pats in a 4-1 series triumph to take national honours. Baun and the Marlies returned in 1956, defeating the Barrie Flyers 4-1 in the J. Ross Robertson Cup Final before defeating Regina in five games once again to complete the repeat Memorial Cup effort.
Baun, who hailed from Lanigan, Sask., went on to play 964 NHL regular season contests over 17 seasons with Toronto, California and Detroit between 1956 and 1973. He won Stanley Cup championships with Toronto in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967. His effort in the 1964 Stanley Cup Final goes down as one of the legendary performances in NHL history as he scored the Game 6 overtime-winning goal against Detroit’s Terry Sawchuk with a broken ankle as the Leafs came back from a 3-2 series deficit to prevail.
Read more on the life and career of Bobby Baun at NHL.com.
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