Career
While Fran Huck played professionally in both the National Hockey League and WHA his greatest contributions may have been representing Canada with the National Team program during years before National Hockey League professionals were allowed to compete internationally. His tenure culminated at the 1968 Winter Olympics where he helped the team with the Bronze. In 1999, Huck was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
Fran Huck excelled as a junior with the Regina Pats.
After junior hockey, Huck made the decision, shocking to many hockey people, to join the Canadian National team instead of the National Hockey League. At the time the national team program, run by Father David Bauer, afforded hockey players the alternative of pursuing higher education while still playing hockey. Huck wanted to study law.
He was with the national team from 1965 to 1969 winning a bronze medal for the 1968 Olympics and also bronze for the IIHF World Championships in 1966 and 1967. After his time with the National team, Huck began his professional career, briefly, with the Montreal Canadiens, then playing two seasons with the National Hockey League Saint Louis Blues and with Denver of the WHL. He then moved over to the WHA and played with the Winnipeg Jets and Minnesota Fighting Saints.
In all, Huck played three seasons in the National Hockey League and five in the WHA. He retired after the 1977-1978 season.
Huck graduated from the University of Manitoba with a law degree in 1970. Today he is a practicing lawyer in British Columbia. He is also senior partner in a firm which specializes in helping former athletes make the transition to life after their sporting career.