What I can still remember (if faintly) 50 years to the day after Toronto’s last Stanley Cup victory…

The Maple Leafs concluded what really was a fantastic 2017-’17 NHL season a few days ago.  As we discussed here over the last few weeks, wh...

You want a big trade? While we wait, remembering a summertime deal in 1965 that set the stage for Toronto’s last Cup…

At the moment, much (not all, I realize) of the Leaf populace is hoping for a fairly significant trade that would give the roster a nice lit...

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...

Great goalies of my youth: Hall, Plante, Sawchuk, Giacomin and Esposito

Those who visit this site fairly regularly may recall that my earliest hockey memories date back to the late 1950s. It was a wonderful ti...

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...

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 ...

Terry Sawchuk’s 100th shutout in 1967

Hockey fans all know that Martin Brodeur has now broken Hall-of-Famer Terry Sawchuk’s longstanding NHL record of 103 regular-season shutout...