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'''David Michael Keon''' (born March 22, 1940) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] former professional [[ice hockey]] [[Centre (ice hockey)|centre]]. He played professionally from [[1960–61 NHL season|1960]] to [[1981–82 NHL season|1982]], including 15 seasons with the [[Toronto Maple Leafs]], and was inducted into the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] in 1986. Keon was inducted into the [[Ontario Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dave Keon |url=
▲'''David Michael Keon''' (born March 22, 1940) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] former professional [[ice hockey]] [[Centre (ice hockey)|centre]]. He played professionally from [[1960–61 NHL season|1960]] to [[1981–82 NHL season|1982]], including 15 seasons with the [[Toronto Maple Leafs]], and was inducted into the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] in 1986. Keon was inducted into the [[Ontario Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dave Keon |url=http://oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/15-dave-keon |website=oshof.ca |publisher=[[Ontario Sports Hall of Fame]] |access-date=25 September 2014 |archive-date=29 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229011952/http://www.oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/15-dave-keon |url-status=dead }}</ref> On October 16, 2016, as part of the Toronto Maple Leafs centennial celebrations, Keon was named the greatest player in the team's history.<ref name=chosen/><ref>{{cite web|title=Keon named greatest Maple Leaf in franchise's top-100 reveal|url=https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1118456-keon-named-greatest-maple-leaf-in-franchise-s-top-100-reveal|website=thescore.com|access-date=30 December 2017}}</ref> In 2017, Keon was named one of the [[100 Greatest NHL Players]] in [[National Hockey League|NHL]] history.<ref name="100 Greatest NHL Players">{{cite web|title=100 Greatest NHL Players|url=https://www.nhl.com/fans/nhl-centennial/100-greatest-nhl-players|website=NHL.com|access-date=January 1, 2017|date=January 1, 2017}}</ref>
==Playing career==
===Junior hockey===
Keon played junior hockey in [[Toronto]] for the [[St. Michael's Buzzers]] of the [[Ontario Hockey Association]]'s [[Metro Junior A Hockey League|Metro Junior B league]] in [[1956–57 OHA season|1956–57]];
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===Toronto Maple Leafs===
Keon joined the [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] of the National Hockey League for the [[1960–61 NHL season|1960–61 season]], winning the [[Calder Memorial Trophy]] as the league's top rookie with 20 goals and 45 points in his first season. It was his first of six consecutive 20-goal seasons. In his second year in the NHL, Keon was named to the [[NHL All-Star team|second All-Star team]] and won the [[Lady Byng Memorial Trophy]] as the most gentlemanly player, taking only one minor penalty through the entire season. He repeated as Lady Byng winner in [[1962–63 NHL season|1962–63]], again taking only a single minor penalty all year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8448468|title=David Keon - Stats - NHL.com - Players|access-date=15 September 2014}}</ref>
He was the Leafs' leading scorer in the [[1963–64 NHL season|1963–64]], [[1966–67 NHL season|1966–67]] and [[1969–70 NHL season|1969–70]] seasons, and the team's top goal-scorer in [[1970–71 NHL season|1970–71]] and [[1972–73 NHL season|1972–73]]. Keon was considered one of the fastest skaters in the NHL, and one of the best defensive forwards of his era.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mapleleafslegends.blogspot.ca/2006/05/dave-keon.html|title=Toronto Maple Leafs Legends: Dave Keon|access-date=15 September 2014}}</ref> He would usually play against the opposing team's top centre, and developed a reputation for neutralizing some of the league's top scorers. In 1970–71, he scored eight shorthanded goals, setting an NHL record for most shorthanded goals scored in a single season, which would later be broken by [[Marcel Dionne]] in [[1974–75 NHL season|1974–75]], with 10 shorthanded goals (Dionne's record would be broken by [[Wayne Gretzky]] in [[1983–84 NHL season|1983–84]] with 12 shorthanded goals. In turn, Gretzky's record would be broken by [[Mario Lemieux]] in [[1988–89 NHL season|1988–89]], when Lemieux scored 13 shorthanded goals in a season).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/leaders/goals_sh_progress.html|title=NHL Progressive Leaders and Records for Short-Handed Goals - Hockey-Reference.com|work=Hockey-Reference.com|access-date=15 September 2014}}</ref>
Keon won four [[Stanley Cup]]s with the Leafs, playing on the Cup-winning teams of [[1961–62 NHL season|1961–62]], [[1962–63 NHL season|1962–63]], [[1963–64 NHL season|1963–64]] and [[1966–67 NHL season|1966–67]]. In the 1967 Cup Final, he shut down [[Jean Béliveau]], the star centreman of the [[Montreal Canadiens]], in the last two games of the series and was voted the most valuable player of the playoffs, winning the [[Conn Smythe Trophy]]. Keon's eight points
He was named team [[
Keon hoped to make [[Canada men's national ice hockey team|Team Canada]] for the 1972 [[Summit Series]], but was coming off one of the worst years of his career, finishing the [[1971–72 NHL season|1971–72 season]] with his lowest points-per-game average since his rookie year. The final pick for Team Canada came down between Keon and [[Bobby Clarke]]. It is believed that Clarke was selected because he had more points.
While Keon was not selected for Team Canada, the [[Ottawa Nationals]] of the [[World Hockey Association]] made a strong effort to sign Keon, whom they had placed on their negotiation list earlier that year. [[Harold Ballard]], who had become the Leafs' majority owner in March 1972, said that Keon did not provide the leadership the team needed during the previous season and was refusing to give Keon a big salary increase after a poor year. Keon signed a letter of intent with the Nationals
Early into the [[1974–75 NHL season|1974–75 season]], Ballard publicly blasted Keon, saying that the team was not getting good leadership from its captain and vowing never again to agree to a no-trade clause in a contract, as he had with Keon. When Keon's contract expired at the end of the season, Ballard made it clear that there was no place for him on the Leafs. The Leafs believed they had some strong young prospects at centre who needed more ice time, and Keon was again asking for a contract with a no-trade clause. The 35-year-old Keon was told he could make his own deal with another NHL team, but any club signing him would have been required to provide compensation to the Leafs. Ballard set the compensation price so high that other teams shied away from signing him, even though the Leafs had no intention of keeping him. In effect, Ballard had blocked Keon from going to another NHL team.<ref name=LeafsSI>{{cite magazine| url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/news/2001/02/16/sayitaintso_mapleleafs/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010501040142/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/news/2001/02/16/sayitaintso_mapleleafs/| url-status=dead| archive-date=May 1, 2001| title=Toronto Maple Leafs: Say It Ain't So| magazine=Sports Illustrated| publisher=CNN}}</ref>
===WHA===
In August 1975, with the Leafs still controlling his NHL rights, Keon reluctantly jumped to the [[World Hockey Association]], signing a deal with the [[Minnesota Fighting Saints]] reportedly worth $300,000 over two seasons. Keon chose to play for the Saints after they agreed to a no-trade clause, and also because head coach [[Harry Neale]] was an old friend of Keon's. The team, and Keon, played well, but the team struggled badly financially due in large part to being in direct competition with the NHL's [[Minnesota North Stars]]. With 21 games left in the season, the team folded. Keon refused to waive his no-
The Fighting Saints were revived for the start of the WHA's [[1976–77 WHA season|1976–77 season]], and Keon agreed to a trade back to Minnesota. However, the team folded for good in January 1977 (with Keon as its leading scorer). Keon's WHA rights were briefly claimed by the [[Edmonton Oilers]], but they immediately agreed to trade him to the [[New England Whalers]]. The move re-united Keon with Neale, who had taken over the Whalers after the original Fighting Saints' demise.
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On March 22, 1991, with the Leafs under [[Steve Stavro|new management]] after Ballard's death, Keon played on a team of Leaf all-stars against their counterparts from the [[Montreal Canadiens]] in an old-timers game at Maple Leaf Gardens called ''Legends' Night in Canada''. "After that, I figured out the new ownership was no different than Ballard, and I had no use for it," Keon later said.<ref>''67: The Maple Leafs, Their Sensational Victory, and the End of an Empire'', Damien Cox & Gord Stellick, John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2004, p. 224.</ref> In 2005, he told the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'' that the new owners (majority equity owned by the [[Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan]], chaired by [[Larry Tanenbaum]]) "would like to say they are different, but they are all the same."<ref>"{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120715201156/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Toronto/2005/09/17/1221400-sun.html Keon keeps distance: Reunion with Leafs 'highly unlikely']}}," Mike Zeisberger, ''[[Toronto Sun]]'', September 17, 2005.</ref>
In January 2007, the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that Keon would attend a [[pre-game ceremony]] to honour its 1967 Stanley Cup-winning team. Keon was one of several members of the 1967 team to appear on-ice at the [[Air Canada Centre]] before the Leafs' game on February 17, 2007 — the 80th anniversary of the first game played by the Toronto franchise after being renamed the Maple Leafs in 1927. Keon was introduced to the crowd second last, just
His granddaughter, Kaitlyn Keon, played on the [[Brown Bears women's ice hockey]] program from 2011 to 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.brownbears.com/sports/w-hockey/2014-15/bios/keon_kaitlyn_gzjy?view=bio |title= Kaitlyn Keon Bio|publisher=Brown Bears Athletics|date=n.d. |access-date=2016-09-19}}</ref> accumulating 34 points.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.uscho.com/stats/player/wid,8887/kaitlyn-keon/|title= Kaitlyn Keon Career Stats|publisher=USCHO|date=n.d. |access-date=2016-09-19}}</ref>
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* Greatest Toronto Maple Leaf<ref name=chosen/>
* #14 jersey retired by the [[Toronto Maple Leafs#Retired numbers|Toronto Maple Leafs]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Toronto Maple Leafs retire the numbers of 17 players|url=https://www.nhl.com/mapleleafs/news/toronto-maple-leafs-retire-the-numbers-of-17-players/c-282696202|website=NHL.com|access-date=October 16, 2016|date=October 15, 2016}}</ref>
* In January
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==Career statistics==
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| 76 || 10 || 52 || 62 || 10
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==See also==
*[[Captain (ice hockey)]]
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