Darcy Tucker: 3X Memorial Cup Champion and Toronto Maple Leaf's fan favourite. The epitome of an agitator in the NHL.

Rob and Cam had a great chat with Darcy Tucker. He was considered
one of the greatest agitators in the NHL. The Leaf’s fan
favourite played over 1,000 games and put up some serious points
and penalty minutes while winning three Memorial Cups and World
Junior gold along the way.


Darcy Tucker, a native of Endiang, Alberta, played 947 regular
season and 68 playoff games in the National Hockey League for the
Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs and
the Colorado Avalanche. Tucker scored 215 goals and had 261
assists for 476 points in the NHL, along with 1,410 penalty
minutes. Tucker was the epitome of an agitator in the NHL, a
player players hated to play against but wished to have play on
their team.


Tucker played on the legendary Kamloops Blazers teams of the
1990s and was captain of the team in the 1994-95 season. Darcy
Tucker is one of four players in the 90 year history of Major
Junior Ice Hockey to have won three Memorial Cups, the
championship of Major Junior Ice Hockey in Canada. Those Memorial
Cups were won in 1992 (in Seattle, Washington), 1994 (in Laval,
P.Q.) and 1995 (in Kamloops, B.C.).


In 1995 Tucker also won a World Junior Championship Gold Medal
while representing Canada, in the World Junior Championships in
Calgary.


Darcy Tucker was drafted in the 6th Round of the 1993 NHL Entry
Draft by the Montreal Canadiens, 151st Overall. Always told he
was too small and not fast enough, Tucker overcame these
perceived obstacles and became a consummate professional ice
hockey player who could play it any way you wanted - physical,
skilled, defensive, offensive. In his first professional season
in the American Hockey League he won the Dudley "Red" Garrett
Memorial Trophy and scored 93 points in 74 games. The following
season he stuck with the Montreal Canadiens where he played for
two seasons and then was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in
1998. In 2000 he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs for whom
he played for nine seasons. In 2008 Tucker was signed as an
unrestricted free agent by the Colorado Avalanche of the National
Hockey League. Tucker had six twenty goal seasons in the National
Hockey League including a career-high 28 goals in the 2005-2006
season playing in 74 games.


Big thanks to Darcy for joining us on the Top Cheddar podcast.


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Top Cheddar is hosted by Cam Moon & Rob LeLacheur who chat
with those who have excelled in hockey and the world of business.
The entertainment is plenty as we get to hear some terrific
hockey stories from all of the different hockey leagues and some
Stanley Cup tales for good measure.


In addition to the great hockey stories, we chat about the
career(s) they've enjoyed since leaving the ice and we get
to learn how hockey has helped them through their time in
business and entrepreneurship.


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