Right winger Rocky Dundas was born in Regina, Saskatchewan on January 30, 1967. He spent four full seasons in the Western Hockey League with three different teams. His top junior season was his third, with the Spokane Chiefs, when he scored 31 goals and 101 points. The trade to his third junior team, the Medicine Hat Tigers, was his most rewarding, as a result of a Memorial Cup championship at season's end. The Montreal Canadiens selected Dundas 47th overall in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft, and he soon found himself playing in their system with the American Hockey League's Sherbrooke Canadiens.