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This page is about a father/son pair of hockey
players.
There are two Ontario, Canada|Ontario institutions
which also bear the Syl Apps name:
The Syl and Molly Apps research centre is part of
Kingston, Ontario|Kingston General Hospital,
affiliated with Queen's University, Canada|Queen's
University.
Syl Apps is also a youth centre/reform school in
Oakville, Ontario|Oakville, much like Tim Horton
is now a doughnut.

==Father==

Charles Joseph Sylvanus "Syl" Apps (January 18,
1915 - December 24, 1998) of Paris, Ontario played
as a Toronto Maple Leafs centre from 1936 to
1947-48 NHL season|1948 and later on was an MPP. 
 
Winner of the 1936-1937 Calder Memorial Trophy and
1941-1942 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, this
Canada|Canadian NHL List of Canadian sports
personalities|athlete former Olympic Games|Olympic
pole vaulter also served as an Member of the
Legislative Assembly|MLA. He is remembered in 
List of members of the Hockey Hall of
Fame|Toronto's Hockey Hall of Fame as well as on
one of a set of six NHL all-star 47-cent List of
people on stamps of Canada|stamps issued on
January 18, 2001. His number (#10) was honoured on
the Maple Leafs honour roll.

At 6'00", and 185 lbs, he served as Maple Leafs
team List of Toronto Maple Leafs captains|captain
during the first-ever official National Hockey
League|NHL all-star game October 13, 1947 at Maple
Leaf Gardens. The all-star team defeated the Leafs
4-3. He also played for an all-star team competing
in Montréal on October 29, 1939. Intended to
raise money for the family of Babe Siebert, a
former Montreal Canadians|Montréal Canadiens List
of retired NHL players|player who had accidentally
drowned at St. Joseph, Ontario, this game ended
with a score of All Stars 5 - Montréal 2.

Apps was a Progressive Conservative Party of
Ontario|Progressive Conservative Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1975.
He was the member from Kingston (electoral
district)|Kingston from 1963 to 1967 and from
Kingston and the Islands from 1967 to 1975. He was
Minister of Correctional Services from 1971 to
1974.
 
In 1977 he was made a Member of the Order of
Canada.

He has been
http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=stat
e&FSstateid=830 buried in Cambridge, Ontario.

==Son==

Syl Apps, Jr., his son, was born August 1, 1947,
in Toronto, Ontario.  He was originally 1964 NHL
Amateur Draft|drafted by the New York Rangers in
1964, but did not play his first big league season
until 1970.  That season, the rangy center was
traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the team with
which he made his mark, becoming one of the
franchise's first stars.  Between 1973 and 1976,
during which the Penguins iced some powerful
offensive teams and Apps centered the so-called
Century Line with left wing Lowell MacDonald and
right wing Jean Pronovost, he led the team in
scoring three times and was named to play in the
1975 All-Star Game.

Apps' numbers declining, he was traded to the Los
Angeles Kings in the 1977-1978 season, and retired
two years later.  He finished his career the
Penguins' career assist leader and second in goals
and points.

Syl Apps, Jr.'s son, also named Syl Apps, was a
hockey player in his own right, starring at
Princeton University before spending four years in
the minor leagues, retiring in 2003.

==See Also==
*List of retired NHL players

== External links ==
*http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/ind02facts.ht
m Legends of hockey
*http://barilko.penaltybox.com/ PenaltyBox - Maple
Leafs