Salming and Hammarstrom weren’t exactly the first

At the beginning of the 1973-’74 season, the Leafs had just come off a horrible year. They had missed the playoffs the previous spring af...

Salming, Hammarstrom and oops, I forgot Thommie Bergman—former Red Wing, Jet and a modern-day Maple Leaf scout

A while back I wrote about the Swedish hockey pioneer, Ulf Sterner in a post entitled, " Salming and Hammarstrom weren’t the first...

Maple Leafs who lived on after expansion

One thing we will never see again, ever, in professional sports, is what happened in 1967. The National Hockey League doubled, overnight,...

Who was the first American "Maple Leaf", while remembering when Americans were few and far between in the NHL….

We all recognize that hockey has changed a lot over the past, say, 40 years or so.  Oh, the game is still about goaltending, skating, shoot...

Does it matter where Maple Leaf players come from? Well, yes…and no

The Leafs have been competing hard for Carlyle, and that was certainly the case again on Saturday night at home against the visiting Flyers....

Fifteen ways the game was so different in the old days

I’ve gone on record on this site as saying that, as much as I love modern hockey and all the skill that’s out there, I miss the old days in...