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Wren A Blair - Hockey

Year Inducted: 1986
Home Town: Oshawa

More about Wren A Blair:
Wren A BlairFrom a World Championship victory with the 1958 Whitby Dunlops to an Ontario Hockey Association title with the 1966 Oshawa Generals, Wren was a successful manager at virtually every level of hockey.  The Dunlops also won the Allan Cup, Canada's senior hockey championship, in the 1958-59 season.  After the World Championship win in 1958, accomplished by beating the USSR 4-2, Blair went to the professional ranks.  As farm club director of the Boston Bruins, Wren signed Bobby Orr for the Oshawa Generals, then a farm club of Boston.  Blair, who had re-organized junior hockey in Oshawa after a fire claimed the Oshawa Arena, joined the Generals as general manager in 1962.  Wren, who was born in Lindsay but came to Oshawa as a boy, left to become general manager and coach of the NHL expansion club Minnesota North Stars and was with the Stars until 1974.



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