Maple Leafs History

The first NHL draft was held in 1963, who did the Leafs pick?

In honour of the team's Centennial, the Maple Leafs will honour Tim Horton, Turk Broda, and Dave Keon alongside Sundin, Salming, Bower, Apps, Armstrong, Kennedy, and Sittler.

We take a look at the best and the worst of Leafs jerseys.

In 1989 the Leafs eyes were all focused on a single team: The Belleville Bulls.

Mats Sundin was the greatest to ever wear the Maple Leaf. He hit 500 goals in the greatest way possible.

Where were you when the Maple Leafs didn't salute?

I spent the afternoon at the renovated Maple Leaf Gardens.

100 years ago, the Toronto Blueshirts played their first season. Like most new teams, it involved a fair amount of losing, though not as much as the Tecumsehs, their roomates in the new Arena Gardens. The Blueshirts would go on to become extremely important, not just as the 1914 Cup winners, but bec

1994-95 killed Mike Gartner's string of 30-goal seasons and may have doomed Mats Sundin's shot at universal admiration. Or not. See what you think:

Note - as this is not an official Leaf of the Day post I reserve the right to re-use Jim Pappin at a point of my own choosing for whatever nefarious purpose strikes me as a good idea at the time. My baseball reading this past summer was Roger Kahn&

The Blue Jays were fabulous. We told our children to cherish the back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993* because it might never happen again. They scoffed. The folly of youth. Now they are young adults wondering if they’ll ever see a hockey parade up Bay St.  -- Royson James,

Much ado is being made today about the fact that Paul Henderson's 1972 Team Canada sweater is up for sale.  As of the moment I write this, the auction stands at $131,138 with just under 25.5 days to go.  I think this one gets pricey.  Actually,

Is it possible that the Leafs messed up and missed out on one of the best players in NHL history because of incompetence? Or is there another explanation...

A while ago, back in the days when #3 was worn by Garnet Exelby and the Leafs were staring down the barrel of three games against New Jersey, John Fischer of In Lou We Trust had the following exchange with PPP: Q. You guys are top of your division. Again.

Back in December, an article appeared over at thehockeywriters.com that purported to be a comparison of Leaf and Hab fans.  In the end, it was just a thinly-veiled spin of the old "Habs have a 'winning tradition' and therefore the fans don't accept mediocrity&

"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill (Not everything I write will come from Holzman and Nieforth's Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey - actually, quite a bit doesn't - but it's a good bet that this book

"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill (Not everything I write will come from Holzman and Nieforth's Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey  - actually, quite a bit doesn't (save for these last couple installments) - but it's

"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill (Not everything I write will come from Holzman and Nieforth's Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey  - actually, quite a bit doesn't (save for these last couple of installments) - but it'

"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill (Not everything I write will come from Holzman and Nieforth's Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey  - actually, quite a bit doesn't - but it's a good bet that this book

(Gerry Cheevers, Dec. 2, 1961, celebrating his first NHL win in relief of an injured Johnny Bower - via www.hhof.com ) "THE LEAFS DO IT AGAIN ... JUNE 9, 1965: With their NHL goalies Terry Sawchuk and Johnny Bower at age 35 and 40, respectively, the Leafs allow the

(Note: I've hemmed and hawed over this one for a few days.  I can't really bring myself to defend Harold Ballard, and yet I think everyone deserves a fair treatment - even Harold.  In the end, I'm not so much trying to defend him