Career
He was with the club for 31 years. In 1998, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society wing. After his retirement Palchak wrote Ask Eddy, a column in the Canadiens magazine.
Palchak was also invited to reprise his role and emptied buckets of pucks on the ice for warmup.
He died in 2011 in Montreal.
