The Sudbury Wolves began play as an Ontario major junior hockey team to your 1972-73 season. The Wolves were the reincarnation within the Niagara Falls Flyers, a team which has been once the Barrie Flyers. Ever since then, they is 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 with the short while span between 1973 and 1979.Number 6 is retired with the Wolves for Randy Carlyle. Also known now being the head coach belonging to the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, Carlyle played 36 months in Sudbury from 1973-74 to 1975-76. He was an OMJHL All-Star in the final season, scoring 15 goals, assisting on 67 for any total of 83 points from the blue line in just 60 games.Randy Carlyle would have been a second round pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft, 30thoverall. He had also been a seventh overall pick in the Cincinnati Stingers while in the WHA Amateur Draft but select the NHL route. Carlyle took part 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 your Pittsburgh Penguins.Carlyle played an overall of 1055 regular season games, merely one of two players belonging to the 1976 amateur draft which will see 1000 games. Bernie Federko was the other to achieve the feat. Randy is actually head coach belonging to the Anaheim Ducks since 2005-06, winning the Stanley Cup in only his second season.Number 10 is retired for hometown boy, Ron Duguay. Duguay played towards the Sudbury Wolves for four seasons from 1973-74 to 1976-77. His top season with Sudbury started in 1975-76 when he totalled 134 points. That total was best to seventh within the league. His 92 assists from that season still stand today as a general single season team record. He helped they on the Robertson Cup finals that season where they lost to your Hamilton Fincups.Here season, his numbers dropped to 109 points though the The big apple Rangers liked what we saw, selecting Duguay 13thoverall on the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft. The Winnipeg Jets selected him third overall around the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft. Ron played in the NHL from 1977-78 to 1988-89 when using the Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Houston Kings.Number 17 is retired in honour of Mike Foligno. Mike played four seasons while using Wolves from 1975-76 to 1978-79. His top numbers arrived 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 on 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 earlier this season since the assistant coach.
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