
Cliff Ronning tallied 955 regular season and playoff points in 17 seasons in the NHL, including six years with the Vancouver Canucks between 1990 and ’96. A seventh-round draft pick of the St. Louis Blues in ’84, Ronning scored 306 goals and 869 points in 1,137 regular season games while scoring 29 goals and 86 points in 126 post-season games.
Ronning played four seasons with St. Louis, another three with the Phoenix Coyotes and four with the Nashville Predators before finishing his NHL career with stints with the Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild and New York Islanders.
He also scored over 150 points in two stints with the Canadian national team. A former Western Hockey League MVP and rookie of the year, Ronning was also a key player of the Burnaby Winter Club midget AAA team that won the Air Canada Cup national championships in 1982.
After his career, Ronning returned to Burnaby to raise his family and has work in the hockey industry in stick and shooting development and research.