Career
Raleigh played most of his career in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, playing a total of 535 regular season games. He made his debut for the Rangers during the 1943-1944 National Hockey League season as a seventeen-year-old. Throughout his career he was known by the nickname "Bones" because of his 150 pound frame.
On February 25, 1948 against the Chicago Black Hawks he became the first player in Rangers history to score four goals in a single game.
He retired from hockey in 1958. Raleigh lived most of his life in Winnipeg, Manitoba and was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame.
He suffered with failing health from 2010 and after suffering a fall he died on August 21, 2012 when his family made the decision to turn off his life support.