Philip Francis Maloney is a retired professional ice hockey

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 player who played 158 games in the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs

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, Chicago Black Hawks

Chicago Blackhawks

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, and Boston Bruins

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Maloney had an impressive rookie season with the Boston Bruins where he tallied 46 points (15 goals, 31 assists) in 70 games. As a result, he finished second in votes for the 1949-50 Calder Trophy as the NHL's best rookie.

Maloney also played for the Vancouver Canucks

Vancouver Canucks (WHL)

The Vancouver Canucks were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Hockey League. Inaugurated in 1945 with the PCHL, they became a WHL team with the merger of the PCHL with the Western Canada Senior Hockey League in 1952...

 in the Western Hockey League

Western Hockey League

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. He retired at the end of the 1969-70 season, the year before the Canucks became a part of the NHL, and was the career scoring leader for the franchise with 923 points.