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in 1958. Stickle played baseball for the Milton Red Sox in the Halton County
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fans argue they saw an offside that wasn't called, and possibly another, robbing the Flyers of the chance to win Game 6 which would have tied the series and sent the teams to
Philadelphia for a seventh and deciding game. If linesman Leon Stickle had blown his whistle in the first period and then
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Ontario and Canadian Special Olympics, and coached minor league baseball. He enjoys playing golf. Stickle married Nancy Ellen Smith in 1967, and has three children, two daughters Jayne and Christine and a son David.
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In 2007, Stickle was inducted in the inaugural class of the Milton Walk of Fame. In 2019, the Milton Sports Hall of Fame announced that
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again in overtime on goals that would have undoubtedly been contested; had there been a coach's challenge, and the Flyers had instead won that day, a Game 7 would have been played at the
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in 1965-66 and 1966–67. He led the team in scoring at one point in 1965. Stickle was also a
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from the mid-1980s until his retirement), he officiated six
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