Johnny Bucyk is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Having played for the Detroit Red Wings and most of his career with the Boston Bruins, he has been associated in one capacity or another with the Bruins' organization since the late 1950s. Bucyk was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in 2017.

Bucyk was a skilled left winger who was the largest of his day. While he never was regarded as the best at his position (being a contemporary of superstars Bobby Hull and Frank Mahovlich), he had a long and stellar career, and retired as the fourth leading point scorer of all time and having played the third-most games in history, and recorded sixteen seasons of scoring twenty goals or more. Despite his reputation for devastating hip checks, he was a notably clean player who won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship in 1971 and 1974.

Achievements and facts:

• Played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1955, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971.
• Named to the NHL second All-Star team in 1968.
• Stanley Cup champion in 1970 and 1972.
• Won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in 1971 and 1974.
• Named to the NHL first All-Star team in 1971.
• Won Lester Patrick Trophy for contributions to hockey in the United States in 1977.
• Known as the "Chief" due to presumed Native American looks by a mistaken Boston cartoonist.
• A Ukrainian Canadian and member of the "Uke" line with Bronco Horvath and Vic Stasiuk.
• When the Bruins ended their twenty-nine-year championship drought in 1970, Bucyk was given the honour of being the first player of the team to hoist the Stanley Cup around the Boston Garden, since he was the most senior Alternate Captain (the Bruins did not have a regular Captain wearing the "C" during these years).
• Recorded sixteen twenty-goal seasons.
• Career leader in goals and consecutive games played for the Bruins; second to Ray Bourque in career games, assists and points (retired as the overall leader in all of those categories).
• Retired third behind Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio in all-time NHL games played; currently 18th.
• Retired as the leading career point scorer among left wings, a record since surpassed by Luc Robitaille.
• Oldest player to score 50 goals in one season (51 goals in 1970–71) at age 35, a record that stood until Alexander Ovechkin broke it by doing the same at age 36 in 2021–22.
• Also oldest player scoring 50 or more for 1st time in career. (1970–71).
• Played the greatest number of NHL games before scoring 500 goals - 1,370.
• His #9 Jersey was retired by the Boston Bruins on March 13, 1980.
• Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981.
• In 1998, he was ranked number 45 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.
• In January, 2017, Bucyk was part of the first group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history by the National Hockey League.