Kent
Douglas
Kent
Gemmell Douglas (b. February 6, 1936 in Cobalt, Ontario - d. April
12, 2009) was a professional ice hockey defenceman and coach. He is
best remembered for winning the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year
in the 1962–63 NHL season - the first defenceman to do so in the
then-thirty-year history of the award - with the Toronto Maple
Leafs.
Before his first NHL season, Douglas spent five years
playing for the AHL's Springfield Indians, under the tutelage of the
eccentric Eddie Shore, where he was on three Calder Cup championship
teams in 1959, 1960 and 1961, and won the league's best defenseman
trophy in 1962.
Considered one of the weaker Calder winners
in history, Douglas was unable to maintain his early success,
although he did go on to play more than 400 NHL games. While Douglas
played on three Stanley Cup winners with the Maple Leafs, his name
was only engraved on the Cup once, in 1963.
In 1967, Douglas
was drafted by the expansion Oakland Seals, then was traded to the
Detroit Red Wings at mid-season, where he finished his NHL career in
1969. He spent the majority of the rest of his career in the AHL,
with a stop in the World Hockey Association.
Douglas also spent
almost two seasons as the player-coach of the AHL's Baltimore
Clippers.
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