10 NHL Teams With the Most Stanley Cups
The Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy to win in professional sports. Every season, teams must win 16 games to hoist the 132-year-old Silver Chalice, which was donated by Lord…
Category Archives: Maple Leafs History
Maple Leafs Still Have (Limited) Reasons for Optimism Ahead of Game 5
There is plenty of noise around Leafs Nation these days. From talk about bench squabbles to the health and availability of Auston Matthews to questions related to the future of…
Worst Toronto Maple Leafs Trades
There have been some horrible, terrible and embarrassing trades by the Toronto Maple Leafs in team history. But in recent memory, the number one worst trade blows all the others…
NHL’s Longest Active Playoff Streaks
The NHL plays 82 regular season games, and out of 32 teams, only 16 advance to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, one of professional sports’ most challenging tournaments to win a…
The Rise & Fall of Andrew Raycroft
Eighteen years ago, Boston Bruins goaltender Andrew Raycroft took the National Hockey League by storm. Boston’s fifth-round pick in 1998 had spent the previous three seasons bouncing back and forth on…
Toronto Maple Leafs’ Top-20 Goal Scorers All-Time
*This archive was updated in Oct. 2024 The Toronto Maple Leafs have been around for more than a century. With 100-plus years of history, they have had several characters and…
Today in Hockey History: April 25
April 25 has provided us with some great playoff moments throughout the history of the National Hockey League. Two of the greatest players to ever lace up a pair of…
Today in Hockey History: April 24
If you had to choose two words to describe April 24 throughout the history of the National Hockey League, “overtime goal” would be the perfect pair to use. This date…
Today in Hockey History: April 22
Breaking a record set by the Great One is quite the accomplishment, and a very unlikely player did just that on this date. One of the National Hockey League’s charter…
Bill Barilko, the Tragically Hip & the Most Famous Goal in Maple Leafs History
On April 21, 1951, Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Toronto Maple Leafs and their bitter Original Six rival the Montreal Canadiens had gone into overtime. Then-Maple…