Career
Sloan played in the National Hockey League (National Hockey League) for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks. Sloan also played for the Pittsburgh Hornets and Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League in the earlier stages of his career. Sloan played junior hockey with the Saint Michael"s Majors, joining the Pittsburgh Hornets in the 1946-1947 season.
Sloan started his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947-1948.
In 1948-1949, his first substantive season in the National Hockey League, Sloan only played 29 regular-season games with Toronto and did not play in the playoffs. In 1957, Sloan, was traded from Toronto to Chicago, along with Jimmy Thomson because of his activities in helping to organize the National Hockey League Players" Association.
After winning the in 1961, Sloan retired from professional ice hockey, although he joined the Guelph Platers senior team and played with the Canadian national ice hockey team in the 1962 IIHF world championship before finally retiring from competitive ice hockey.