VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

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St. Albans

Ice Hockey

Inducted 2020

This son of St. Albans was one of the best hockey players the state of Vermont has produced, Toby Ducolon was the first from the state to be drafted by the National Hockey League. Staying in state to star at the University of Vermont, he also has spent close to three decades as a successful high school boy’s hockey coach.

As a high schooler at BFA-St. Albans he helped the Bobwhites to back to back Division I state championships in 1982 and 1983. In both his junior year of 1982-83 and senior year of 1983-84 he headed the Vermont All-State First Team. As a senior he scored 38 goals and adding 26 assists for 64 points. His Bobwhites lost in the state championship game to Essex, but Ducolon registered a hat trick in the 8-4 defeat.

That summer he was selected in the third round as the 50th overall selection by the St. Louis Blues in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, one pick ahead was future NHL legend Patrick Roy. Ducolon was also named to the 40-man roster for the United States Junior National Team later that summer.

Widely recruited and signed by fellow VSHOF inductee Jim Cross and his staff, Ducolon went on to a solid four-year career at Division I University of Vermont, scoring 46 goals and adding 39 assists for 85 points in 118 games. Playing on a line with UVM legends Kyle McDonough and Ian Boyce he was named the team MVP in 1988, leading the Cats with 21 goals. The Catamounts that season reached the ECAC Semifinals at Boston Garden and made its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

After UVM, Ducolon turned pro and played two seasons with the Blues affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen of the International Hockey League, scoring 28 goals and adding 47 assists for 75 points in 135 pro contests.

Returning to St. Albans, Ducolon was named head coach at BFA in 1990. In 29 years through 2020 in that role he has taken his alma mater to 13 Division I State Championship games and his Bobwhites have won the state title eight times.