A great honour for Kingson native Bruce Landon. For the first time the American Hockey League has presented the ‘Bruce Landon Award of Excellence’ to the league’s outstanding hockey operations executive.

The inaugural winner of the Landon award for the 2024-25 season is Laval Rocket GM John Sedgwick. Under the leadership of Sedgwick, the Rocket won 48 games and had 101 points to finish with the AHL’s best record this past season.

Sedgwick is also the Assistant GM of the Montreal Canadiens.

Bruce Landon, a former goalie, is an honoured member of the Kingston & District Sports Hall of Fame and the American Hockey League Hall of Fame.

Bruce spent almost fifty years with the AHL’s franchise in Springfield, Massachusetts (where he still makes his home), as a goalie, General Manager, President & owner. The street outside the arena in downtown Springfield is named in his honour.

Bruce grew up in Kingston, played junior hockey for the Peterborough Petes, was drafted by the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings in 1969. Landon played in the AHL for Springfield and won an Avco Cup in the WHA with the New England Whalers in 1972-73.