Keon played junior hockey in Toronto for the St. Michael\'s Buzzers of the Ontario Hockey Association\'s Metro Junior B league in 1956–57;\n', 'on December 20, 1956, he scored seven goals in one game. In February 1957, he was named to the league\'s eastern all-star team and was picked by NHL scouts as the top prospect in the league. Keon was selected as the league\'s rookie of the year, finishing second in scoring, and his team won the league championship. He played some games that season for the Junior A St. Michael\'s Majors, and moved to that club full-time for the 1957–58 season. Keon played for St. Michael\'s through the end of the 1960 season, when he turned professional and joined the Sudbury Wolves of the Eastern Professional Hockey League for four playoff games. They would be the only games he would ever play in the minor leagues.\n', '

Keon joined the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League for the 1960–61 season, winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league\'s top rookie with 20 goals and 45 points in his first season. It was his first of six consecutive 20-goal seasons. In his second year in the NHL, Keon was named to the Second All-Star Team and won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as most gentlemanly player, taking only one minor penalty through the entire season. He repeated as Lady Byng winner in 1962–63, again taking only a single minor penalty all year.\n', '

He was the Leafs\' leading scorer in the 1963–64, 1966–67 and 1969–70 seasons, and the team\'s top goal scorer in 1970–71 and 1972–73. Keon was considered one of the fastest skaters in the NHL, and one of the best defensive forwards of his era. He would usually play against the opposing team\'s top centre, and developed a reputation for neutralizing some of the league\'s top scorers. In 1970–71, he scored eight shorthanded goals, setting an NHL record for most shorthanded goals scored in a single season, which would later be broken by Marcel Dionne in 1974–75, with 10 shorthanded goals (Dionne\'s record would be broken by Wayne Gretzky in 1983–84 with 12 shorthanded goals. In turn, Gretzky\'s record would be broken by Mario Lemieux in 1988–89, when Lemieux scored 13 shorthanded goals in a season).\n', '

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