Mike Walton Michael Robert " Shakey " Walton ( born January 3 , 1945 in Kirkland Lake , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional player in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) and World Hockey Association ( WHA ) . He was a forward with explosive offensive skills who made up for his lack of size with blazing speed and superior puckhandling . Formative years . Walton was born in Kirkland Lake , Ontario , but his family settled just north of Toronto in Sutton , He inherited his nickname " Shakey " from his father Bobby , who , as a hockey player in England . would shake his head to throw off opponents . He spent each of his first two years of junior hockey with the only champions in the Metro Toronto Junior A League ' s brief history . He first played for the St . Michael ' s Majors . When the Majors ' famous hockey program was discontinued after the 1961 – 62 season , Walton and the rest of the players were transferred to Neil McNeil Maroons , where he scored 22 goals in 38 games in 1962 – 63 . Toronto Maple Leafs . He then joined the Toronto Marlboros , where he was the club ' s second leading scorer with 92 points ( 41 goals , 51 assists ) in 53 games , while helping them win the league championship and Memorial Cup in 1963 - 64 . He then earned back - to - back minor league Rookie of the Year honors , first with the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Professional Hockey League ( CPHL ) in 1965 , then with the Calder Cup - winning Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League ( AHL ) in 1966 . Walton made his Leafs debut in 1965 – 66 , appearing in only six matches . He established himself on the veteran - dominated team midway through the next campaign . Working exclusively on powerplay situations , he scored four goals with three assists while playing in all twelve games of Toronto ' s postseason run to the 1967 Stanley Cup Championship . He was the club ' s leading scorer with 59 points ( 30 goals , 29 assists ) in 1967 – 68 , his first full season in the league and most productive with the Leafs . His time with the Leafs was marred by constant conflict with head coach Punch Imlach and team president Stafford Smythe . Prior to his dismissal in April 1969 , the domineering Imlach , disdainful of younger players , clashed with Walton over hairstyle , bombarded him with negative comments about his on - ice performance and threw him into the doghouse . Smythe just simply hated him for having as his agent Alan Eagleson , who helped establish the NHL Players ' Association . Further complicating matters was the fact that Walton was married to Smythe ' s niece . When an independent psychiatrist appointed by the NHL diagnosed him with depression in the middle of the 1970 – 71 season , Walton ' s departure from the Leafs was imminent . Boston Bruins . Walton was traded twice on February 1 , 1971 . He was first dealt to the Philadelphia Flyers with Bruce Gamble and the Leafs ' first - round choice in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft ( Pierre Plante ) for Bernie Parent and the Flyers ' second - round pick in the same draft ( Rick Kehoe ) . He was then acquired by the defending Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins for Rick MacLeish and Danny Schock . He blended in well with the Bruins ' prolific scorers led by Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr , his business partner at the time with the Orr - Walton Sports Camp in Orillia , Ontario . He became a part of his second Stanley Cup Championship when the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers in the 1972 Finals . He was injured in a bizarre accident in the middle of the 1972 – 73 season when he tripped and fell through a plate glass door at a St . Louis hotel . Despite needing over 200 stitches and a complete blood transfusion after losing five pints of blood , he made a complete recovery . Minnesota Fighting Saints ( WHA ) . The upstart World Hockey Association , attempting to lure talent away from the established league , conducted its General Player Draft on February 12 , 1972 to evenly distribute amongst its franchises NHL players with expiring contracts . Even though still under contract with the Bruins , Walton was selected by the Los Angeles Sharks . His WHA rights were traded in June 1973 to the Minnesota Fighting Saints , who succeeded in signing him to a three - year deal worth $ 450 , 000 . He made an immediate impact as the WHA ' s leading scorer with a career - high 117 points ( 57 goals , 60 assists ) in 1973 – 74 . He continued as the team ' s top scorer for the next two seasons , but left the team on Feb . 25 , 1976 , three days before financial problems forced the Fighting Saints to cease operations . He also played for Team Canada when it lost the 1974 Summit Series to the Soviet Union 1 – 4 – 3 . Observers considered his performance to be the biggest disappointment in the series . End of a career . Walton returned to the NHL to finish his 1975 – 76 campaign , but it wasn ' t with the Bruins . Two years earlier on February 7 , 1974 , they had traded his NHL rights , along with Chris Oddleifson and Fred O ' Donnell , to the Vancouver Canucks for Bobby Schmautz . Even though his 66 points ( 29 goals , 37 assists ) in 1977 – 78 led the Canucks and were the best numbers in his NHL career , he was still dealt to the St . Louis Blues on June 12 , 1978 . His subsequent season was split between the Blues , Bruins , Chicago Blackhawks and the latter two ' s AHL affiliates . His final year of professional hockey in 1979 – 80 was spent with Kölner EC of the 1 . Bundesliga in West Germany .