The best Maple Leaf—and NHL—defense pairs of the past 50 years…

Though I’ve been watching and following hockey closely going back to the late 1950s, I certainly don't have instant recall when it come...

Remembering some wonderful old Canadian Olympic hockey names: “The Vintage Leaf Memories Podcast” – Episode 11

I’m no Olympic hockey expert—far from it.  But like many other hockey fans, I've generally enjoyed watching Olympic hockey over the yea...

Carl Brewer: the Jake Gardiner-like former Leaf All-Star defenseman was a man of many comebacks

Those who visit VLM once in a while may recall my penning a few thoughts previously on one of the Maple Leafs of my childhood and young adol...

Carl Brewer: The Jake Gardiner-like Leaf who was a training camp walkout before the age of player unions

I was pretty young when this happened, so I will probably have a number of historical “facts” wrong in my story today.  I suppose I could ...

Brewer and Olmstead were both great old Maple Leafs, but apparently not friends

Bert Olmstead and Carl Brewer are two all-time Maple Leafs, both members of the 1962 Stanley Cup champion team.   Both are on my “Ten best...