David Ellett

ABOUT DAVID ELLETT

NHL defenseman who played over 1,000 games across 16 seasons after being selected 75th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1982 NHL Draft.

He was the son of a minor league hockey player, and he would go on to lead Bowling Green State to the NCAA title.

He set a Toronto Maple Leafs team record for most points by a defenseman in a playoff year, 16.

He married Annie Bianco, who was a cowgirl-mounted shooter.

He was an unwilling assistant on Wayne Gretzky 's game-winning hat-trick goal that sent the Kings into the Stanley Cup Finals in 1993.