Christmas day: Remembering the two Noel’s, including Maple Leaf Noel Price

As a kid growing up in southwestern Ontario in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, in hockey terms, I had the best of all worlds. I was born a...

The man they called “Snowshoes”: remembering Allan Stanley and his standout Maple Leaf career

Allan Stanley was widely considered to be slow afoot—on skates. I have vivid memories of watching Stanley in his Leaf years, which began...

More ‘70s week: A Cowboy wasn’t the answer in 1974

The summer before the 1974-’75 season, the Leafs were coming off another “off” year. Oh, they had made the playoffs the season before, but w...

12 things I preferred about pre-1967 expansion hockey

While I wasn’t thrilled initially with the idea of NHL expansion in 1967, I came to accept that it was inevitable and necessary for the leag...

Tiger Williams: Just a little bit late

Dave "Tiger" Williams joined the Leafs mid-way through the 1974-’75 season. A second round draft choice out of Swift Current, he e...