Don McKenny was a Canadian Ice Hockey forward and coach. He played in the National Hockey league between 1954 and 1968 with five teams, mostly with the Boston Bruins.
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McKenny made his professional debut with the Bruins’ American Hockey League Hershey Bears farm team in the 1953-54 season.
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Injuries hampered his play that season, although he played well in the playoffs where the Bears made the Calder Cup finals, losing in six games to eventual champions, Cleveland Barons.
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In 1970, McKenny joined longtime Bruins teammate, Fern Flaman in the coaching staff of the Northeastern University Huskies men’s hockey team. He served nearly two decades as an assistant coach and head recruiter.
He concluded his active life in hockey as a part-time scout for the NHL Colorado Avalanche.
McKenny died on December 19, 2022, at the age of 88.
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