Chadwick started his NHL career in the
1955–56 season by playing five games for the Toronto Maple Leafs as a substitute for injured future
Hall of Famer Harry Lumley. Over the next two seasons, he played 140 consecutive regular season games for the Leafs, which is still a team record. His playing time shrank in the next two seasons and he was shipped down to the
Rochester Americans of the
American Hockey League. He played only four more NHL games, as a member of the
Boston Bruins in
1961–62. He spent the remainder of his playing days in the AHL, first for the
Hershey Bears, and then the
Buffalo Bisons before retiring in 1968. ==Later life and death==