The Sudbury Wolves began play as an Ontario major junior hockey team for the 1972-73 season. The Wolves were the reincarnation with the Niagara Falls Flyers, a team this was if your Barrie Flyers. After that, the c's has been to the Robertson Cup finals just twice and has yet to win the championship.The Sudbury Wolves have retired facts three players. All 3 played while in the limited time span between 1973 and 1979.Number 6 is retired because of the Wolves for Randy Carlyle. Better known now given that the head coach of the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, Carlyle played three years in Sudbury from 1973-74 to 1975-76. He was an OMJHL All-Star within the final season, scoring 15 goals, assisting on 67 on a total of 83 points of your blue line within just 60 games.Randy Carlyle must have been a second round pick within the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft, 30thoverall. He have also been a seventh overall pick for the Cincinnati Stingers within the WHA Amateur Draft but chose the NHL route. Carlyle played in the National Hockey League from 1976-77 to 1992-93 with Toronto, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets. He won the Norris Trophy because league's top defenseman in 1980-81 while contributing 83 points to the Pittsburgh Penguins.Carlyle played a total of 1055 regular season games, one simple of two players on the 1976 amateur draft designed to see 1000 games. Bernie Federko was other to try and do the feat. Randy is head coach for 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 for ones 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 healthy for seventh in your league. His 92 assists from that season still stand today in the form of single season team record. He helped the c's to your Robertson Cup finals that season where they lost into the Hamilton Fincups.The next few season, his numbers dropped to 109 points but the Manhattan Rangers liked what we saw, selecting Duguay 13thoverall during the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft. The Winnipeg Jets selected him third overall while in the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft. Ron took part in the NHL from 1977-78 to 1988-89 when using the Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Los Angeles 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 were only available 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 with 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 the 2009 season when the assistant coach.
