Remembering a great Leaf-Bruins series from the spring of ’59…a harbinger of things to come for today’s Leafs?

It’s simplistic sometimes, I recognize, to draw comparisons to earlier times—in life and in sports.  Many of us do it, and I certainly do h...

An old Maple Leaf I really loved and wore the crest proudly: Jim Dorey

Those who have only recently been following the posts here at VLM won’t know something I’ve shared with readers over the years:  one of my f...

Burke to Ottawa, or maybe a return to Toronto some day?

I’m not posting on the Brian Burke “farewell” press conference, if that’s what it was.  I’ve written enough on Burke over the past three plu...

Can you imagine something like this today—a Toronto Maple Leaf “album”?

In case you've missed some recent posts... -Why we fans are the weak link in the labour dispute -A thank you (and some individual...

Do the Leafs still matter? They sure do….

Who’s kidding who?   (Or is it “who’s kidding whom…”?) It’s August and unless we are speculating about whether a) van Riemsdyk really is a ...

Mid-season coaching changes fairly rare in Toronto, but could the impact this time be like the spring of ’59?

I've long held the view that it's best not to make hasty (positive or negative) judgments about the first game when a new coach take...

The Leaf legacy in my lifetime, Part II: The 1960s

This isn’t quite a cliffhanger like we had in the olden days- say, the Lone Ranger or Zorro or even Dallas (or some more modern TV show),...

Be honest: what would satisfy you this season? And, what’s your Maple Leaf Stanley Cup “window”?

I want to be clear right up front today.  I think every guy who has ever been the General Manager of the Maple Leafs has been determined to ...

Remembering when the Maple Leafs recorded an “album” in the mid-1960s

I came across something I thought I’d lost recently, which brought me back to my youth in the mid-‘60s. Olden-day Leaf followers will reca...