Rod Seiling
Inducted In
1995
Rod Seiling played a total of 979 games in the National Hockey League for New York, Toronto, Washington and Atlanta over a span of seventeen years. As an all star defenceman, his point total was 62 goals and 269 assists.
Born in Elmira in 1944, he played his minor hockey in Elmira, winning many Ontario Minor Hockey Association championships. He was named MVP of the famous Goderich Peewee Tournament after scoring seven goals in just one game. He signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs and played for the St. Michaels Bussers at age fourteen and won the OHA Junior B title in 1961. He was on the Toronto Marlborough team when they won the 1964 Memorial Cup and was a member of the Canadian Olympic hockey team in the 1964 Insbrook Olympics.
He will be remembered as the key player in the five for two trades from the Toronto Maple Leafs to the New York Rangers.