Some favourite old-time summertime Maple Leaf (and other) hockey memories…

Like all professional sports leagues the NHL is much more of a 12-month of the year business than it used to be. When I was a kid ...

Could Reimer go the other way for Luongo?

If you follow VLM at all you know that I have very little interest in rumours.  By that I mean I don’t try to start them—there’s plenty o...

An old story you might enjoy: when it paid more to be a guest on TV than in did to actually play in the NHL playoffs

Here’s something I had completely forgotten- and it shows just how much things have changed for NHL players in terms of salaries compared w...

As we wait for the Kaberle move, Vintage Leaf remembers the big Plante-Worsley trade of the summer of ’63

It’s summertime and while hockey is a twelve month of the year business, there is not much for most fans to get excited about these days....

The Leafs and Rangers in the spring of ’62 : What a playoff series

When the playoffs began in the late winter of 1962, the Leafs were due for something big.  They hadn’t won a championship since 1951, and ...

1993 was painful for us old Leaf fans who remember the bitter 1960s playoff battles with Montreal

You don’t have to be very old to remember how painful it was for Leaf fans in the spring of 1993. We were “this close” to getting past Wa...

Famous players and famous goals: Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe and number #545

Any baseball fan knows that Babe Ruth is perhaps the most legendary name in the history of that sport. So, when Roger Maris made a run a...

Selecting the best NHL “All-Star” team—versus the Leafs—in the 1960s

 Until 1968-‘69, the NHL All-Star game was traditionally played between the previous season’s Stanley Cup champion and a group of selected ...