In the spring of 1960, Gilbert joined the Trois-Rivières Lions for their playoff run in the Eastern Professional Hockey League / EPHL. Gilbert then played his junior Hockey for the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters of the Ontario Hockey Association / OHA from 1957 to 1960, and almost won the OHA scoring title (39 goals - 91 points) for the 1959-60 season, losing it to Chico Maki on the last day of the 1959-60 schedule.
Sign him up and we'll play together.' He signed Jean Ratelle without ever seeing him play.' When he signed me, I told him, 'I have a friend I've been playing with since I was a kid and he's better than me. This man, Yvon Prud'homme, had then been hired by the New York Rangers to start a competitive Junior B league in Montreal.
Gilbert played his minor Hockey in Montreal at a independent school, and as a teenager, met a man named Yvon Prud'homme, who invited him to play senior Hockey with men in their late-twenties, and he was coach of the team. Rodrigue Gabriel 'Rod' Gilbert - Born Jin Montreal, Quebec - Died Died Augin Manhattan, New York was a Canadian ice Hockey right winger and executive.
