Curry was born in Chapleau, Ontario, about 210 miles west of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, where he played his minor hockey. The latter, a northern mining town, produced the likes of Dick Duff, Ralph Backstrom, brothers Barclay, Bill and Bob Plager, Mickey Redmond and most famously, Ted Lindsay, via his birthplace of Renfrew, Ontario.
Curry would win the Stanley Cup with the Canadiens in 1953, 1956, 1957 and 1958, playing all 601 of his regular-season games and another 91 in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for Montreal.
He had 204 points (105 goals, 99 assists), adding 40 points (23 goals, 17 assists) in the postseason. Twenty of his 105 regular-season goals, 19 percent, were game-winners.
A fine offensive talent with major-junior Oshawa], for whom he won the Memorial Cup in 1944, and Montreal of the Quebec Senior Hockey League, winning the 1947 Allan Cup senior championship, Curry knew from his first days with the Canadiens that coaches Dick Irvin Sr. and then Blake would value him more for his checking prowess. He eagerly traded his nose for the net for an ability to get in the faces of the opponent’s best lines, fashioning himself into a reliable defensive forward.