Maple Leafs of Toronto

The Maple Leafs of Toronto are a frankness from professional Hockey. Today, the club of Maple Leafs of Toronto belongs to the National league of hockey and is located at Toronto.

In the past, the team bore the following names:

Prize list

The team belongs to the Six original teams of the LNH.

; 21 appearances finally of the Cut Stanley

; Trophy O' Brien

; Trophy Prince de Galles

  • 1947-48
  • 1962-63

History

See also: Seasons of Maple Leafs of Toronto

Arenas

The first version of the frankness takes form to the creation of the National league of hockey. The owners of the Canadian of Montreal, on the Wanderers of Montreal, the Senators d' Ottawa and the Bulldogs of Quebec decided to form a new league in order to exclude Edward J. Livingston, owner of the concession of the National association of hockey, the Blueshirts of Toronto and thus not to allow him to be implied in their future operations of hockey. However, since it is then inconceivable that the town of Toronto, plus Canadian big city, does not have a team, they then decide to create a frankness, the Arenas .

The first match of the team is played the December 19th 1917 against the Wanderers of Montreal. The match is finished on a score of 10 goals to 9 for Wanderers, that will be the single victory of the team of Montreal, which sees its skating rink leaving in smoke at the end of six matches.

This frankness gains at the time of the first season league the second part of the championship and must face the Canadian of Montreal, victorious of the first part. The 11 and March 13rd, the Arenas beat the Canadians on a total from 10 to 7 (7-3 and 3-4). The team gains then the Trophée O' Brien and a place finally of the Coupe Stanley against the champion of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association , the Millionaires of Vancouver. The Arenas gain the Stanley Cut at the time of their first year of existence 3 matches with 2.

Unfortunately, during the following season, because of financial problems, the Arenas are obliged to stop of player at the end of eight matches (out of ten envisaged) during the second part of the championship.

Saint-Patricks

As of the season 1919-20, a new team is born in Toronto, the Saint-Patricks . The frankness will exist under this name of the season 1919-20 with the season 1925-26 and will gain in 1922, the second Stanley Cut by beating the Senators d' Ottawa finally of the LNH and the Millionaires of Vancouver of the PCHA finally of the Cut.

In 1926, a new frankness sees the day in the LNH the Rangers of New York. Tex Richard founder of the frankness makes come Conn Smythe in order to compose one second team in the town of New York (the first being the Americans of New York). Smythe signs a certain number of players who will take part in the conquest of the first Coupe Stanley of the history of Rangers in 1928: Bill Cook, Frank Butcher, Ching Johnson, and Taffy Abel. However, Smythe, getting along any more with its president, does not form any more part of the organization, he is thanked at the end of the season and the February 14th 1927 he repurchases Saint-Patricks. It then decides to change the name into Maple Leafs in order to honor the team with Baseball of the city which has evolved/moved for 30 years in minor league.

Maple Leafs

The time Smythe Idiot

Charlie Querrie the owner of Saint-Patricks loses a lawsuit and thus decides to sell the frankness. In spite of quoted: 200000 Dollars by a group of Philadelphia, Conn Smythe manages to convince Querrie which its duty towards the city is more important than the money. Querrie thus accepts the offer of: 160000 dollars of Smythe.

It still keeps for the end of the season the green color of the shirt of Saint-Patricks but as of the springtide, the shirt of Leafs takes for the first time the colors blue and white.

The colors blue and white as well can represented the blue of the sky and the white of snow that the traditional colors of all the teams of Toronto in the past (with for example the Argonauts of Toronto of the Canadian Ligue of football).

After four unspecified seasons, Smythe and Leafs make their beginning in their new skating rink: the Maple Leaf Gardens, with a defeat 2 goals in 1 against the Blackhawks of Chicago the November 12th 1931. Fortunately for the Leafs , the first season is finished well and carried out by the “ Kid Line ” (the line of the young people) made up of Busher Jackson, Joe Primeau and Charlie Conacher will carry out the team towards their third Coupe Stanley and the first under new name. In eliminatory Series, the Leafs will beat the team of the older brother of Conacher, Lionel, and the Maroons of Montreal then to the following turn, in semi-finals, the Bruins of Boston in six matches (with the last match gained in prolongation). Finally, Smythe can take its revenge and sees its team beating Rangers. During the following season, Leafs will have the same course for the series but this time will lose against Rangers.

In 1933, the attacker of Leafs, Ace Bailey, comes very close to death following a Mise in failure by behind defender of Bruins, Eddie Shore. Bailey comes to strike at full speed the edge of the skating rink and the accident puts an end to its career.

During seven seasons which will follow, Maple Leafs will reach with five recoveries the final of the Stanley Cut but will not gain it only once At the time of the final series of 1942, the history seems to be repeated whereas Toronto is led three matches to zeros by the Red Wings de Détroit. During the match n°4, the attacker of fourth line, Gift Metz, registered a Tour of the hat making it possible its team to play a fifth match then a sixth thanks to a victorious goal of this same Metz. During the match six, the goalkeeper Turk Broda carries out a Blanchissage and at the time of the last match of the series Sweeney Schriner gives the victory to the Leafs by carrying out a doublet for a victory 3 goals with 1. At the end of the season, the captain of Leafs Syl Apps receives the Trophée Lady Byng for his exemplary behavior on the ice. Indeed, it finishes the season without never being penalized and has in ten seasons a 5 minutes average and 36 seconds of penalty per season. In the history of the American professional sport was the first time that a team led 3 matches to 0 in final series is able to reverse the vapor and finally to gain the series. Seven years later, Apps questioned by the writer the Trent Frayne declares: If you ask me to say which is my greater evening of hockey but also the most intense moment which I knew, I would answer that it is about the noise of the needle of the last second before the end of the match. It is something which I would never forget.

Three years after this final, the heroic players of 1942 are older and the Leafs turn to a new generation with players like the guard Frank McCool or the defender Babe Pratt. Still, once in 1945, the team beats finally Red Wings de Detroit of the Stanley Cut.

In 1946-47, Canadian of Montreal, champions in title, and them “ punch line ” (made up of Maurice " Rocket" Richard, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach), lead the hard life to Maple Leafs but Ted " Teeder" Kennedy mark the victorious goal during the sixth match offering a new Cut to the team of Toronto. That will be the first of a series of three consecutive cuts. Maple Leafs of Toronto then become the first team of the LNH to carry out such a performance. Moreover with the victory in 1948, Maple Leafs become, at the time, the most titrated team league. 10 years will have to be waited later, to see the Canadians passing by again in front.

The Leafs and the Habs once again finally meet Coupe Stanley 1951 out of five matches which will turn to the advantage of Maple Leafs. The five matches all the same were very disputed with prolongations each time. The Canadians even failed to gain the match n°5 but whereas there remain 42 seconds in the prescribed time, Tod Sloan propels the two teams in prolongations and the defender, Bill Barilko, author of only six goals during the season, registers the goal of the victory offering to his team a fourth Cut in five seasons. The glory of Barilko is unfortunately transitory since it disappears in an air crash four months later. Conn Smythe promised a reward of: 10000 Dollars with that which could find the trace of Barilko, disappeared since the August 26th. Barilko and its dentist, Doctor Henry Hudson, disappeared whereas they were on an aircraft. The remainders of the plane were found 10 years later.

New dynasty, the years 1960

Following the title of 1951, Maple Leafs see their play worsening during time and the teams of Red Wings and the Canadians connect the titles the ones after the other. It is necessary to await the 1962 to see the team gaining a news Coupe Stanley. Before the beginning of the season, Smythe had sold its rights on the Maple Leaf Gardens to a partnership between his/her son, Stafford Smythe, John Bassett (owner of local newspapers) and chair it Marlboros of Toronto, Harold Ballard.

The team once again succeeds in connecting three victories finally Stanley Cut between 1962 and 1964. The team then counts in her rows the following players: Frank Mahovlich, Red Kelly, Johnny Bower, Dave Keon, Andy Bathgate and Tim Horton under the direction of the trainer and managing director of the team, Punch Imlach. In spite of the success of the team, Bathgate does not appreciate Imlach and at the end of the season 1964-65, it informs it everyone during an interview:

Imlach almost did not speak us about the season that it is in Frank Mahovlich or me even. When he addressed the word to us, it was only to criticize. Frank had as a practice to raise only the worst of each one among us. We are athletes, we are not machines and Frank is of the type of the players who need to feel to support.

The logical consequence of these words was the transfer of Bathgate for the Red Wings de Détroit even if Mahovlich remained still a few years within the team.

The finale 1967 of the Coupe Stanley represents last confrontation between the Leafs and the Canadians, the latter being then regarded as the favorites of the finale, the critics affirming that the team of Toronto was not whereas a cluster of remainders of former players high-speed motorboats (“has beens”).

In spite of that, during the second prolongation of the third match, Bob Pulford allows Toronto to gain the match and Jim Pappin registers the goal of the victory for the sixth match and the Stanley Cut. Dave Keon gains then the Trophée Idiot Smythe as a Meilleur player (MVP) of the series. In 1968, Mahovlich is included in a massive transfer between Toronto and Red Wings then following the early elimination of the team during the series of 1969, Smythe returns Imlach what makes react Horton. He declares whereas if the team does not want Ilmach, he supposes that the team does not want him either. The year according to, it joined the Rangers of New York.

The Ballard years

Following the death of Smythe in 1980, Harold Ballard gains the control of the team during the Saison LNH 1971-72 and becomes one of the most hated owners history of the frankness, exchanging the most loved players of public or refusing and blocking the transfer of Dave Keon towards another team of the LNH. This last then decides to leave the LNH and to join in 1975, the Fighting Saints of Minnesota of the Worldwide association of hockey (AMH). Ballard considers (and with reason) that whatever the aligned team and whatever her talent, the matches would be played all closed counters and then refuses to increase the envelope of the wages more than of reason. During years 1970, the landscape of North-American hockey is not any more the same one: indeed, in 1967, the LNH integrates six new franknesses and the players can leave to evolve/move in another league professional, the AMH. In spite of that, Maple Leafs are composed talented players: Darryl Sittler (better pointer of all times of the team), Lanny McDonald, Keon, Tiger Williams and Börje Salming. The team then constitutes a honourable adversary in the LNH even if they arrive only once the second round of the series by beating the Islanders of New York. Unfortunately, the series stops in semi-final in four matches lost against the eternal rivals of the Canadian of Montreal.

The February 7th 1976, Sittler registers six goals and carries out four decisive master keys during a match against the Bruins of Boston. In July 1979, Ballard makes return Imlach within the organization as a managing director. When in December 29th, Leafs send McDonald, friend of Sittler, within the Rockies of Colorado, an anonymous member of Leafs declares with the Toronto Star that Ballard and Imlach would do anything to sap the moral one of Sittler and that the purpose of the transfer of McDonald is single to decrease the importance of Sittler within the team. This one, as well as other players of Maple Leafs, all members of the Association of the players of the National league of hockey, fought in order to obtain better contracts. Following the transfer, the players devastated the cloakrooms and Sittler refused, temporarily, to carry “C” for Maple Leafs. The agent of Sittler, Alan Eagleson, which was also executive director of the LNH declared that all this history lacked class.

Goalkeepers

Defenders

Assailing

Former players

With the Temple of famous the

Captains

The list below shows the captains of the history of Maple Leafs.

Not to forget

Withdrawn numbers

Honoured but officially not withdrawn numbers

Trainers of the frankness

Since the beginning of the frankness, there were 35 trainers (this total included trainers of the Arenas and the Saint-Stalemates ).
King Clancy and Punch Imlach was with three recoveries behind the bench of Leafs while John McLellan, Charles Querrie and Conn Smythe will have been it twice.

Trainers of the Arenas

The Arenas used two trainers: Dick Carroll for the season 1917-18. It is replaced during the following season by Frank Heffernan.

Trainers of the Saint-Stalemates

Saint-Patricks will have had seven trainers.

Trainers of Maple Leafs

The list below shows the whole of the trainers of the team since the arrival of Conn Smythe as an owner. PJ: Parts with the head of the team, V: Victories, Defeats, NR: Ties, Pr: Defeat in prolongation, %V: Percentage of victoires

See too

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