Edward Steven Phillip "Eddie" Shack - Born February 11, 1937 in Sudbury, Ontario - Died July 25, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario was a Canadian ice Hockey left winger.

- J. Ross Robertson Cup Junior Champion 1957 with Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters.

- Stanley Cup Champion 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967 with Toronto Maple Leafs.
Shack scored the 1963 Stanley Cup winning goal.

- Prince of Wales Trophy Champion 1963 with Toronto Maple Leafs.

Shack played his junior Hockey with Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters.

Shack made his NHL debut with New York Rangers on October 8, 1958 vs Chicago Black Hawks at Chicago Stadium in a 1-1 tie.

Shack scored his 1st NHL goal vs Don Simmons of Boston Bruins at 3:24 of 1st period on October 11, 1958 at Boston Garden in a 4-4 tie.

Shack scored his 1st NHL hat-trick vs Glenn Hall of Chicago Black Hawks on January 6, 1963 at Chicago Stadium in a 5-1 Toronto win. His 1st goal was the game winner.

Shack was an antagonist, and scrapped with the other team's heavyweights and steamrolled their biggest stars, playing his role of agitator, often with comic relief, to perfection.

Shack was not a big goal scorer, but he did put 26 goals in the net during the 1965-66 season, which resulted in in a song about the popular Maple Leafs player written by Brian McFarlane. Douglas Rankine with The Secrets performed the song called "Clear the Track, Here Comes Shack". It actually hit number 1 on the Canadian pop charts and and had a run of 9 weeks on the Canadian charts.

The Maple Leafs traded Shack to Boston in May, 1967. He played 2 seasons for the Bruins before they traded him to Los Angeles Kings in May, 1969.

Shack played for the Kings until they traded him to Buffalo near the end of November, 1969 and he he finished the season (56 games) scoring 25 goals for the Sabres. With the 2 goals he scored for the Kings before they traded him, Shack scored the most goals of his career with 27 and points with 46.

After some conflict with Buffalo in February, 1972 Shack was again traded, this time to Pittsburgh in early March, 1972. The Penguins had 6 players who scored 20 goals or more the next season and Shack made it 7 players, as he scored 25 goals in the 1972-73 season, but the team missed the playoffs.

Pittsburgh sold his contract back to Toronto in July, 1973 and Shack finished his NHL career back in the city that loved him so much in 1975.

Shack played in 1047 regular season NHL games, scoring 239 goals (48 GWG), 226 assists with 1431 penalty minutes and 74 NHL playoff games, scoring 6 goals (2 GWG), 7 assists with 151 penalty minutes.

Shack played in NHL All-Star Games 1962, 1963, 1964.
Shack was NHL All-Star Game MVP in 1962.

After his retirement, Shack was a popular advertising spokesman in Canada, most notably for The Pop Shoppe soft drinks and Schick razors, shaving off his moustache for one of their promotions. He also promoted a small chain of doughnut stores bearing his name. All done while poking fun at himself.

Shack appeared for a number of years at alumni all-star games. He also revealed he had been illiterate most of his life and subsequently became an advocate for literacy programs in his native Ontario.

QUOTE
"I'll tell you why I'm not in the Hall of Fame; it's because of my mouth!" Shack said in his autobiography, "Eddie Shack: Hockey's Most Entertaining Stories". "If I would have just shut up, I could have been in the Hockey Hall of Fame. I guarantee you I could have been in there.