whcanuck
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- May 11, 2017
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This is the season that anyone who was old enough to remember, remembers as the great return to prominence for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
They added Pat Burns as coach, and Cliff Fletcher made a number of shrewd moves to make this team highly competitive, the biggest of course being the addition of Doug Gilmour the year before...who barring a miraculous, almost god-like season from Mario Lemieux in Pittsburgh, easily wins the Hart Trophy as league MVP in '92-93.
The team added experienced scorers like Dave Andreychuk and Glenn Anderson, saw the emergence of Felix Potvin in net, and featured one of the game's toughest captains in Wendel Clark.
I was just a little kid back then, hearing only of the Leafs from what I heard from my Dad and older brother...both big Leaf fans. What do you remember as some of the key factors as to why the Leafs had as much success as they did as a team? What were they especially good at? How were they able to overcome an 0-2 deficit to Detroit in the first round and go all the way to game 7 of the Conference Finals?
Lastly, why do you think they came out so flat at home in game 7 of the Kings series? Other than Gretzky going god-mode, I felt that series was there for the taking and they let it slip through their fingers. Still, a great team in Leaf history no doubt, Cup or no Cup.
They added Pat Burns as coach, and Cliff Fletcher made a number of shrewd moves to make this team highly competitive, the biggest of course being the addition of Doug Gilmour the year before...who barring a miraculous, almost god-like season from Mario Lemieux in Pittsburgh, easily wins the Hart Trophy as league MVP in '92-93.
The team added experienced scorers like Dave Andreychuk and Glenn Anderson, saw the emergence of Felix Potvin in net, and featured one of the game's toughest captains in Wendel Clark.
I was just a little kid back then, hearing only of the Leafs from what I heard from my Dad and older brother...both big Leaf fans. What do you remember as some of the key factors as to why the Leafs had as much success as they did as a team? What were they especially good at? How were they able to overcome an 0-2 deficit to Detroit in the first round and go all the way to game 7 of the Conference Finals?
Lastly, why do you think they came out so flat at home in game 7 of the Kings series? Other than Gretzky going god-mode, I felt that series was there for the taking and they let it slip through their fingers. Still, a great team in Leaf history no doubt, Cup or no Cup.