Ike Hildebrand

Isaac Bruce Hildebrand, known as Ike, was a Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, who excelled in both of Canada's national sports. In hockey he came through the Oshawa Generals junior team and played 41 games in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers and the Chicago Black Hawks across the 1953-54 and 1954-55 seasons, spending the rest of a career that ran from 1944 to 1960 in minor leagues. As a playing coach with the Belleville McFarlands he scored the winning goal when they took the 1959 World Championship for Canada. In lacrosse he starred for the New Westminster Salmonbellies, was named most valuable player of the Mann Cup at seventeen, and was an all-star thirteen times in a seventeen year career. He later coached the London Nationals, the Orillia Terriers and the Oshawa Generals, was inducted into Canada's Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and died in St. Albert, Alberta, in 2006.