Category Archives: Leaf of the Day

King is fit to be tied

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

King Clancy is shown here during his three-year stint as coach of the Maple Leafs.  He took over from Joe Primeau after 1952-53 and inherited a team that was quickly forgetting how to score.  Most of the big names of … Continue reading →

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Hey Abbott! Where’s Costello? He’s been here twice already.

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Yesterday, the Leafs signed a college kid named Spencer Abbott.  I know rather little about him other than the fact that he’s not very tall (so he’s more Costello than Abbott already), so all I can really say is that … Continue reading →

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Dave Farrish was a Leaf, or so they tell me

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

The Leafs have hired Dave Farrish as a new assistant coach.  Like new head coach Randy Carlyle, he was a Leaf blueliner from days of yore.  Where Randy was traded away while still a youngster, Dave was around for a … Continue reading →

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Welcome Back, Randy

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

I had this smart-alecky little post all set up in which I noted that Ron Wilson was an ex-Leaf defenseman who came up in the ’70s on those well-coached Roger Neilson teams.  He’d gone on to some pretty good success … Continue reading →

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The best line I’ve heard so far about trade deadline day

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Last night, after we got back from the grandparents’ house, my seven-year-old was telling me about playing NHL2K11 with his uncle. “I didn’t pick Toronto,” he said, “because I didn’t think I could win with them.” My daughter walks into … Continue reading →

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This is going to be a (winter) classic!

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

It’s probably not going to be popular with everyone, but I’m pretty pumped about the next Winter Classic.  Toronto/Detroit could be an interesting matchup on a lot of levels, but at the very least, it should be a good game … Continue reading →

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Top 11 of 2011 – A double-folding Mecca Leaf and a boy named Dit

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Nothing like a couple of wins in a row (one by shutout, yet!) to get one’s outlook back to where it should be.  This is one of those seasons where there is almost no margin for error if you’re a … Continue reading →

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More random celebrity encounters – this time with feeeeeling

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

I was out today on a mid-afternoon grocery run (I’m still on vacation, so I can do this sort of thing) and decided I’d fortify myself with the fine products of Tim Horton’s.  I can’t look through 99-cent pomegranites without … Continue reading →

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Harry ‘Hap’ Holmes – one of the greatest goalies nobody remembers

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Goaltender Harry “Hap” Holmes won four Stanley Cups, faced Georges Vezina five separate times with either the Cup or a championship (sometimes both) on the line and was never beaten (one draw in 1919 when the flu interrupted play), is … Continue reading →

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Tod Sloan 1955-56 – the more things change….

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

I was listening to the radio the other day and the host was opining that if the Leafs could just land themselves a centre, they might have the makings of a legitimate first line.  This wouldn’t be a top-end first … Continue reading →

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