Seeing Kaberle at the Olympics brings back fond (and frustrating!) memories

Despite a roster with quite a bit of elite talent, the Czech Republic has struggled at the Olympic games. Some are former NHLers but many a...

Skill testing questions for Leafs fans: does the current Leaf team have any of these types of former Leafs….?

A couple days ago, I tried to focus on some of the positive things the Leafs have built up over the past few years, as I do believe ther...

Inge Hammarstrom: a perfect fit for the Leafs…if he was playing nowadays

Even Leaf fans with a only modest awareness of the team’s history will know that Borje Salming was a stalwart player in blue and white fo...

Who was the last real Maple Leaf superstar? Will Kessel be the next? Kadri? If not, who?

Just the other day I was thinking about the Leafs, past and present, and started going through in my mind:  who is the last Leaf player th...

My all-time Leaf team from 1957 - present

 Some weeks ago I wrote a piece on who I believed were the “Ten best” Leafs I’ve seen in the last fifty years. Having developed Vintage ...

Salming, Hammarstrom and oops, I forgot Thommie Bergman—former Red Wing, Jet and a modern-day Maple Leaf scout

A while back I wrote about the Swedish hockey pioneer, Ulf Sterner in a post entitled, " Salming and Hammarstrom weren’t the first...

From Salming to Sundin: big moments brought big smiles

Since many of us prefer story-book endings, it might have been best if Mats Sundin had retired after the 2007-’08 season with the Maple Lea...

Salming and Hammarstrom weren’t exactly the first

At the beginning of the 1973-’74 season, the Leafs had just come off a horrible year. They had missed the playoffs the previous spring af...

Vintage Leaf's “top ten” Maple Leafs 1959-present

Part of the fun of being a fan is that we all have our own memories, our own opinions, and our own personal favorites. Top 10 lists are alw...