Ernie Hicke

William Lawrence Hicke was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger, born March 31, 1938, and died July 18, 2005. A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, he played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins, winning the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1959 and 1960.

Hicke played junior hockey with the Regina Pats in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League from 1954 to 1958, finishing as Memorial Cup runners-up in three of those years. He joined the Montreal Canadiens from 1958 to 1965, with stints for Montreal's American Hockey League affiliate the Rochester Americans during the 1958–59 and 1959–60 seasons, and the Cleveland Barons during 1964–65. Traded to the New York Rangers in 1964, he had stints with the Minnesota Rangers in 1965–66 and the Baltimore Clippers in 1966–67, but remained a Rangers product until being drafted by the Oakland Seals in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft. He played for the Seals until a 1971 trade to the Pittsburgh Penguins. In November 1971 Hicke was traded to the Detroit Red Wings but never played for them. His younger brother is Ernie Hicke.