the league as part of the league's centennial celebrations in 2017. Family Apps and wife Mary Josephine had five children, Joanne, Robert, Carol, Janet and son Syl Apps Jr. (the latter also played the NHL). His granddaughter (and daughter of Syl Jr.) Gillian Apps won the gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics, the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the 2014 Winter Olympics for Canada's women's ice hockey team, and his grandson Syl Apps III was a college hockey star at Princeton University and played four years in the minor leagues. His grandson Darren Barber won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in the men's 8 in rowing. Barber is now a family doctor in Peterborough, Ontario. NHL awards and achievements Calder Memorial Trophy winner in 1937. Selected to the NHL Second All-Star Team in 1938, 1941, and 1943. Selected to the NHL First All-Star Team in 1939, and 1942. Lady Byng Memorial Trophy winner in 1942. Stanley Cup champion in 1942, 1947, and 1948. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961. Inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. In 1998, he was ranked number 33 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. #10 jersey retired by the Toronto Maple Leafs. In January 2017, Apps was part of the first group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. Career statistics * Stanley Cup Champion. Electoral record See also List of NHL players who spent their entire career with one franchise References External links 1915 births 1998 deaths Canadian Army personnel Canadian military personnel from Ontario Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Calder Trophy winners Canadian ice hockey centres Canadian male pole vaulters Canadian Army personnel of World War II Canadian people of English descent Canadian sportsperson-politicians Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Ice hockey people from Ontario Lady Byng Memorial Trophy winners McMaster Marauders football players Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Members of the Order of Canada Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Olympic track and field athletes of Canada Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Stanley Cup champions Toronto Maple Leafs players Sportspeople from the County of Brant Sportspeople from Kingston, Ontario