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| Marshall McLuhan |
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one...
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| David Jason |
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Sir David John White, OBE, known by his stage name David Jason (born 2 February 1940) is an English actor. He first found fame on the popular sitcom Open All Hours as Granville, Ronnie Barker's corner shop delivery boy. He later starred in Only...
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| Edmonton Oilers |
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The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The Oilers were founded on November 1, 1971, with...
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| Edmonton |
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Edmonton, Alberta |
Edmonton (pronounced /ˈɛdməntən/) is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies. It is...
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| Edmonton Trappers |
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The Edmonton Trappers were a minor league baseball (Triple A) team in the Pacific Coast League, ending with the 2004 season. Home games were played at Telus Field in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The Trappers joined the PCL in 1981 when...
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| TELUS Field |
Telus Field (nicknamed the Phone Booth) is a baseball stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is home to the Edmonton Capitals of the independent Golden Baseball League, and former home of the Edmonton Trappers, an AAA baseball team of the Pacific...
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| Brook Taylor |
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Brook Taylor FRS (18 August 1685 – 30 November 1731) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.
Brook Taylor was born at Edmonton (at that time in Middlesex) to John Taylor of Bifrons House, Kent, and...
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| Michael Harcourt |
Michael Franklin Harcourt (born Edmonton, January 6, 1943) served as the 30th Premier of the province of British Columbia in Canada from 1991 to 1996, and before that as mayor of BC's major city, Vancouver from 1980 to 1986.
Harcourt was Student...
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| Preston Manning |
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Ernest Preston Manning, CC (born June 10, 1942) is a conservative populist Canadian politician. He was the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance. He sat in Parliament...
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| University of Alberta |
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The University of Alberta (U of A) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely...
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| Edmonton Eskimos |
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The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian Football League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The Eskimos are the most successful CFL franchise of the modern era (1949-present), having won the league's Grey Cup championship thirteen times, including an...
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| Barb Tarbox |
Barb Tarbox, MSM (April 10, 1961 – May 18, 2003) was one of the most well-known anti-smoking activists in Canada; a life-long smoker dying of brain and lung cancers whose very open and frank discussions of her illness, its cause and its consequences...
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Jackson Heights, Queens |
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the borough of Queens in New York City, USA. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 3. The zip code of Jackson Heights is 11372.
Jackson Heights is also where the IRT...
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| Arthur Hiller |
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Arthur Hiller, O.C. (born 22 November 1923) is a Canadian film director. His filmography includes 33 major studio releases, including the 1970 film Love Story. A Film Festival in Mr. Hiller's name takes place each spring at Victoria School of...
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| Bernard Ebbers |
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Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941, Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company.
In 2005, he was convicted of fraud...
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| Lawrence Pazder |
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Lawrence (Larry) Pazder (April 30, 1936 - March 5, 2004) was a Canadian psychiatrist and author. Pazder is known for discredited autobiography, Michelle Remembers published in 1980, that he co-wrote with his patient (and eventual wife) Michelle...
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| Mark Messier |
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Mark John Douglas Messier (born January 18, 1961) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre of the National Hockey League and current special assistant to the president and general manager of the New York Rangers. He spent a quarter of a...
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| Scott Niedermayer |
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Scott Niedermayer (born August 31, 1973) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and team captain of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Niedermayer is known for his skating stride, and knack for leading or joining the offensive rush....
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| Jarome Iginla |
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Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla (born July 1, 1977) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). A five-time NHL All-Star, he is the Flames' all-time leader in goals,...
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| James Rajotte |
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James Rajotte (born August 19, 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian politician.
As a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, Rajotte is chair of Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance. Previously he was...
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| Dennis Fentie |
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Dennis G. Fentie, MLA (born November 8, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He is the current Premier of Yukon and leader of the Yukon Party, as well as the incumbent MLA for Watson Lake.
Fentie was born in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1962, Fentie moved to...
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| Ted Scott |
Edward (Ted) Scott, CC (April 30, 1919 – June 21, 2004) was a Canadian clergyman.
He was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1919 and grew up in Vancouver, where his father was a rector. He attended Anglican Theological College and was ordained in 1942. He...
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| Pat Duncan |
Pat Duncan (born April 8, 1960) is a former politician in the Yukon, Canada. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998 to 2005 and as Premier of Yukon from 2000 until 2002. Duncan was the first Liberal premier of the Yukon and the...
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| Nathan Fillion |
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Nathan C. Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor, perhaps best known for his lead role as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its film continuation Serenity, and his current lead role as Richard Castle on the ABC...
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| Jay Bouwmeester |
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Jay Bouwmeester (born September 27, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL).
After playing minor hockey for his hometown team in Edmonton of the Alberta...
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| John Kordic |
John "Rambo" Kordic (March 22, 1965 – August 8, 1992) was a hockey player in the National Hockey League. He was of Croatian descent.
Kordic played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Washington Capitals, and Quebec Nordiques. He spent 7...
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| Dan Wicklum |
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Dan Wicklum (born 28 February 1965 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a former Canadian Football League (CFL) football player.
Wicklum was raised in Perth, Ontario, in the Ottawa Valley, and attended St. John Catholic School and Perth and District Collegiate...
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| Jill Hennessy |
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Jillian Noel "Jill" Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and musician known for her television roles on Law & Order and Crossing Jordan.
Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and...
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| Blair Betts |
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Blair Betts (born February 16, 1980) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Betts was drafted by the Calgary Flames in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the second...
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| Jason Botterill |
Jason Botterill (born May 19, 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta) is the Assistant General Manager for the Pittsburgh Penguins and a former professional hockey left winger.
He was drafted by the Dallas Stars in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, First Round,...
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| Ken Daneyko |
Kenneth "Ken" Daneyko (born April 17, 1964, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired ice hockey defenceman who played his entire career (1983–2003) with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League, winning three Stanley Cup championships with the...
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Edmonton Coliseum |
Rexall Place is an indoor arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada situated on the north side of Northlands. It is currently the home to the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, the Edmonton Rush of the National Lacrosse League and the Edmonton...
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| Commonwealth Stadium |
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Commonwealth Stadium is a sports stadium located in the Norwood Area of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, primarily used by the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. The stadium is owned and operated by the City of Edmonton.
Commonwealth...
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| Richard Matvichuk |
Richard Matvichuk (born February 5, 1973 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an NHL defenceman, currently a free agent. Although he was born in Edmonton, Richard was raised in the nearby city of Fort Saskatchewan. Matvichuk was drafted eighth overall in the...
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| Blythe Hartley |
Blythe Hartley (born May 2, 1982) is a Canadian Olympic diver. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta and began diving at age 12. She went to the National Sport School in Calgary, Alberta with many other top Canadian athletes. Hartley attended Handsworth...
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| Robert Young Pelton |
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Robert Young Pelton (b. July 25, 1955, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), is an author, journalist and documentary filmmaker. An iconoclast known for his entry into most of the world's conflicts over the last fifteen years, Pelton is known as an adventurer...
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| Bruce McCulloch |
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Bruce Ian McCulloch (born May 12, 1961) is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live....
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| Mike Johnson |
Michael Keith Johnson (born October 3, 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a baseball pitcher for the KBO's SK Wyverns. He made his Major League Baseball debut on April 6, 1997, with the Baltimore Orioles.
Johnson was selected by the Toronto Blue...
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| Fort Edmonton |
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Edmonton House |
Fort Edmonton (also named Edmonton House) was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1795 to 1891, all of which were located in central Alberta, Canada. It was the end point of the Carlton Trail, the main overland...
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| Dave Babych |
David Michael Babych (born May 23, 1961) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who spent 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is currently an assistant director of player personnel with the Vancouver Canucks. He...
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| John "Red" Pollard |
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John "Red" M. Pollard (October 27, 1909 – March 7, 1981) was a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing jockey. A founding member of the Jockeys' Guild in 1940, Pollard rode at racetracks in the United States and is best known for riding Seabiscuit.
Red...
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| Daymond Langkow |
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Daymond R. Langkow (born September 27, 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a professional ice hockey centre and alternate captain of the Calgary Flames. His older brother, Scott Langkow, is a goaltender who plays in Europe for the Krefeld Penguins...
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| Nancy MacBeth |
Nancy MacBeth, née Betkowski (born December 29, 1948 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian politician, who was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party from 1998 to 2001.
MacBeth was educated at the University of Alberta, studying French and Russian,...
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| Lisa Ryder |
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Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actress, who portrayed the role of Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.
Ryder was born in Edmonton, Alberta and attended the University of Toronto,...
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| Dion Phaneuf |
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Dion Phaneuf (born April 10, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League. He was drafted ninth overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Flames, and made his NHL debut in 2005 after a...
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| CKUA |
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CKUA is a Canadian radio station. Originally located at the University of Alberta in Edmonton (hence the UA of the call letters), it now broadcasts from studios in downtown Edmonton and south Calgary. CKUA was created in 1927 through a provincial...
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| Janice Rhea Reimer |
Janice Rhea Reimer (born May 23, 1952) is a Canadian politician and the first female mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 1995. Highlights of her time in office included the inception of a new waste management...
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| Terry Cavanagh |
Terence James (Terry) Cavanagh (born July 19, 1926) is a Canadian politician and former mayor and municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor.
Cavanagh was born in Edmonton July 19, 1926, to recent Scottish...
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| Belinda Metz |
Belinda Metz (born January 4, 1960 in Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian solo recording artist from the early to mid 1980s who has since turned to acting. She also has credits as a choreographer and songwriter. She has a daughter named Amelia.
In...
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| Susan Roman |
Susan Roman (born April 17, 1957) is a Canadian voice actress best known for voice acting the role of Lita/Sailor Jupiter in the American DiC (and later Cloverway) dub of the anime, Sailor Moon. She is one of the few voice actors to remain...
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| Rae Dawn Chong |
Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-American actress.
Chong was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong, a comedian, actor, writer and director. She was raised by her grandmother, Tommy Chong's...
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| Rochelle Loewen |
Rochelle Nicole Loewen (born October 26, 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian actress, Glamour model, and former WWE Diva on the SmackDown! brand.
Rochelle began modeling in her late teens and competed in Canada's Hawaiian Tropic...
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| Old Strathcona |
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Old Strathcona is an historic district located in south-central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Once the commercial core of the separate city of Strathcona, the area is now Edmonton's premier arts and entertainment district, and in 2007 was named Alberta...
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| Andrew Ference |
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Andrew Ference (Born March 17, 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He has also played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Calgary Flames.
Ference...
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| Mac Colville |
Matthew Lamont 'Mac' Colville (January 8, 1916 – May 27, 2003) was a professional ice hockey right winger. A native of Edmonton, Alberta, he was brother of Hall of Fame hockey player Neil Colville.
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| Neil Colville |
Neil McNeil Colville (August 4, 1914 - December 26, 1987) was a professional ice hockey player. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League with his brother Mac, winning the Stanley Cup in 1940....
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| CHED |
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CHED is a talk radio station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, broadcasting at 630 on the AM dial and is owned by Corus Entertainment.
The station originally began broadcasting at 1080 AM in 1954, until it moved to its current frequency in 1965....
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| Edmonton Journal |
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The Edmonton Journal is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the CanWest News Service division of CanWest Global Communications.
The Journal was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W....
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| Edmonton Sun |
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The Edmonton Sun is a daily newspaper published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a division of Sun Media, a Quebecor company.
It began publishing in 1978 and shares many characteristics typical of Sun Media tabloids, including an emphasis on...
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| Johnny Bucyk |
John Paul "Chief" Bucyk (born on May 12, 1935, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired professional ice hockey left winger. As of 2008, he has been a member of the Boston Bruins' organization for an unprecedented fifty consecutive years.
Bucyk was a...
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