On a slow August day, 12 treasured moments in Maple Leaf history in my lifetime…

Early to mid-August is inevitably the quietest time of year when it comes to NHL hockey.  It seems especially so nowadays with a cap in plac...

Do any of the current Leafs remind you of '50s Maple Leaf winger Gerry James?

For Leaf fans born in the last thirty years or so, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did not know who Gerry James was, or what he meant when i...

A Maple Leafs primer series: The Leaf legacy in my lifetime, starting with...the 1950s (First in a series)

I was asked a while back, "what should someone, as a fairly new Leaf fan, know if I wanted to understand the team and a bit about its h...

Can we talk playoffs now? And would Leaf fans want a Terry Pegula as owner?

It's one thing to get the puck deep, it's another to keep it there when the game is on the line.  The Leafs did that to virtual perf...

Ex-Leaf defenseman Jim Morrison's amazing journey: 10 years in between NHL gigs

In the early days/years of expansion (post-1967) I watched a lot of guys play NHL hockey who were good players, but would never have made i...

Eddie Chadwick: that name means Maple Leaf hockey to me

One of the benefits of being an "older" hockey fan, particularly a Maple Leaf supporter, is when things are tough, as they are fo...

Can Giguere be our modern-day Terry Sawchuk?

Brian Burke brought in J.S. Giguere last season for a number of reasons:   The Leafs’ goaltending was not where it needed to be; Giguere an...

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...