Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward to die. Skilled Hand. Mr. Ellis is Canada’s closest approach to an official executioner. Legally, when a death sentence has been ...

Ron Ellis didn’t get his number retired by the ... Apart from the Leafs, he played only on Team Canada ’72 and was a post-career Hockey Hall of Fame ambassador for decades up to his death ...

Ron Ellis, who played over 1,000 games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and was a member of Canada’s team at the 1972 Summit ...

Ellis, who broke into the league with the Leafs in 1965-65, helping win the club’s most recent Stanley Cup in 1967, spent his entire 1,034-game career in Toronto, amassing 332 goals and 640 ...