Moore played with the Montreal Jr. Royals from 1947 to 1950. He played on two
Memorial Cup winning teams, one with the Montreal Royals in 1949 and the Montreal Junior Canadiens the following year. In the late 1940s
Frank Selke Sr., the general manager of the
Montreal Canadiens, called him Canada's best junior. Moore made his NHL debut with the Canadiens in the middle of the 1951–52 season. Moore was known for his hard accurate shot and his stickhandling. He twice won the
Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer. Moore won the
Stanley Cup with the Canadiens for the first time in 1953 and five more times in a row from 1956 to 1960. In 1957–58 Moore suffered a broken wrist in a collision with Detroit defenceman
Marcel Pronovost which threatened to cut short a scoring championship year. Journalist
Red Fisher described what happened next: Moore, the competitor, wanted to win the Art Ross. He had his eye on the prize, but Moore, the team man, had other ideas. One night, when the Canadiens were travelling on the train, he asked for a meeting with coach
Toe Blake and his linemates,
Maurice and
Henri Richard. At the time, Henri was Dickie's closest pursuer in the scoring race. Dickie told them he could still play with his wrist in a cast, but for how long? And as long as he played with an injury that would sideline most players, how much could he contribute to the line? "It’s not fair to Henri," Moore told Blake. "It’s not fair not to allow him to win the scoring title." The meeting lasted no more than a few minutes. It ended abruptly when Maurice and Henri told Blake: "There’s no damned way he’s going off the line." Moore remained on the line. He played with his wrist imprisoned in a cast for the second half of the season. He won the
Art Ross with an NHL-leading 36 goals and 48 assists in a 70-game season. Henri finished four points behind. Moore won it again in 1958–59 with 41 goals and 55 assists. He retired following the 1962–63 season, but came back a year later to play one season for the
Toronto Maple Leafs. Three years later, in 1967–68, Moore came out of retirement once more to play 45 games for the
St. Louis Blues. At 37 years of age, he scored 14 points in the playoffs as the Blues made it to the Stanley Cup finals in their first season. In 1974, Moore was inducted into the
Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1998, he was ranked number 31 on
The Hockey News' list of the
100 Greatest Hockey Players. ==Later life==