The Sudbury Wolves began play as a major Ontario youth hockey team during the 1972-73 season. The Wolves were the reincarnation of the Niagara Falls Flyers, a team that was once the Barrie Flyers. Since then, the team has been to the Robertson Cup final only twice and has yet to win the championship.

The Sudbury Wolves have retired the numbers of three players. All three played in the brief span of time between 1973 and 1979.

The number 6 is retired by the Wolves for Randy Carlyle. Best known now as the head coach of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks, Carlyle played three years at Sudbury from 1973-74 to 1975-76. He was an OMJHL All-Star his final season, scoring 15 goals, assisting on 67 for a total of 83 blue line points in just 60 games.

Randy Carlyle was a second round pick by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft, ranked 30th overall. He was also the seventh overall pick by the Cincinnati Stingers in the WHA Amateur Draft, but chose the NHL route. Carlyle played in the National Hockey League from 1976-77 to 1992-93 with the Toronto, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets. He won the Norris Trophy as the league’s best defenseman in 1980-81 and contributed 83 points for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Carlyle played a total of 1,055 regular-season games, only one of two players in the 1976 amateur draft to see 1,000 games. Bernie Federko was the other to accomplish the feat. Randy has been the head coach of the Anaheim Ducks since 2005-06, winning the Stanley Cup in only his second season.

Number 10 is retired for the hometown boy, rum duguay. Duguay played for the Sudbury Wolves for four seasons from 1973-74 to 1976-77. His best season with Sudbury came in 1975-76 when he had 134 points. That total was good for seventh in the league. His 92 assists from that season still stands today as a single-season team record. He helped the team reach the Robertson Cup final that season, where they lost to the Hamilton Fincups.

The following season, his numbers dropped to 109 points, but the New York Rangers liked what they saw, selecting Duguay 13th overall in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft. The Winnipeg Jets selected him third in overall in the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft. Ron played in the NHL from 1977-78 to 1988-89 with the Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Los Angeles Kings.

The number 17 is retired in honor of mike foligno. Mike played four seasons with the Wolves from 1975-76 to 1978-79. His best numbers came in his last season when he scored 65 goals and totaled 150 points. The 150 points remain a team single-season record.

The Detroit Red Wings ranked Foligno third overall in the 1979 NHL amateur draft. Mike played over 1000 NHL regular season games from 1979-80 to 1993-94 with Detroit, 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 last season as an assistant coach.