A native of Winnipeg, McCreedy was a key member of the 1938 Allan Cup Champion Trail Smoke Eaters and the 1939 Smoke Eater team that won the World Amateur Championship in Switzerland. He is the only player in hockey history to have his name engraved on the Memorial Cup (1936-37 Winnipeg Monarchs), the Allan Cup, the Championship de Monde Trophee (world amateur) and the Stanley Cup -- the latter thanks to a short but very successful NHL career. Although he appeared in only 64 regular season games for the Toronto Maple Leafs between 1941 and 1945 (scoring 17 goals and 29 points), McCreedy twice got his name engraved on the Stanley Cup as a member of the Leafs' 1941-42 and 1944-45 championship teams. He passed away in 1975 and was posthumously inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985.