page_title: Don Gallinger
section_title: Expulsion for life
hierarchical_section_title: Don Gallinger / Career / NHL betting scandal / Expulsion for life
caption_attribution_description: Clarence Campbell, President of National Hockey League and Stanley Cup
context_page_description: Donald Calvin "Gabby" Gallinger was a professional ice hockey player who played 222 games in the National Hockey League. Born in Port Colborne, Ontario, he played for the Boston Bruins. Gallinger was one of the league's youngest players when he broke into the NHL, playing on the "Sprout Line" of Boston with Bill Shill and Bep Guidolin. Gallinger's career was cut short, when in 1948 Gallinger and former team-mate Billy Taylor were discovered gambling on their own teams and banned for life by the NHL. They were reinstated in 1970 and these are the longest suspensions in NHL history. Prior to the suspension, Gallinger had established himself an effective offensive NHL player and, as an excellent multi-sport athlete, had even been sought after to play professional baseball.
context_section_description: On March 9, 1948, Gallinger was suspended indefinitely, pending an investigation, by the NHL for gambling on hockey including games involving the Bruins. NHL President Clarence Campbell said Gallinger and teammate Billy Taylor, who had already been expelled for life, were guilty of  "conduct detrimental to hockey and for associating with a known gambler."
  On September 28, 1948, Don Gallinger met the same fate as Taylor, receiving a lifetime expulsion from the NHL.
  While Gallinger continued to deny his involvement publicly, on October 9, 1949, Gallinger confessed his guilt privately to Campbell. In another player gambling incident in 1946, Babe Pratt had his life-time suspension, also for gambling, reversed after nine games when he freely admitted his guilt to then-NHL president Red Dutton. However, Campbell did not grant Gallinger similar leniency. Years later, Gallinger stated that Campbell had advised him not to reveal to anyone that he had confessed. Campbell, when asked, denied that he had ever advised this to Gallinger. After the Babe Pratt gambling incident, the NHL board changed their constitution to eliminate a player's right to appeal if found guilty of gambling on a game's outcome.
caption: The president of the NHL, Clarence Campbell, banned Gallinger from the NHL for life and refused to lift the ban 15 years later.
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