Junior Career
Jim McKenny was born in Ottawa and he moved to Toronto as a child. McKenny played with the Neil McNeil Maroons of the Metro Junior A league in 1962–63. When the league folded in 1963, McKenny transferred to the Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros, who won the Memorial Cup in 1964. As a junior, McKenny was considered by many scouts as the second-best defenceman prospect after Bobby Orr. in later yers, McKenny had spoken openly of his personal life and career being negatively affected by periods of alcoholism developed during his teen-age years.
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