OT: Toronto Remembers

[ottomaddox]

It's a long offseason. This is meant to be a not so serious thread. I am hoping people share their memories or link old articles on the leafs. It's still really fun to reflect on where this team has come from (glory and misery).

Since we are talking a bit about who might be the next leaf captain, I just wanted to share this old National Post story on Cody Franson.

Should Toronto Maple Leafs’ Cody Franson be the team’s next captain?


Edit- post old articles, pictures, glory, controversy, etc

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[Cor]

I always wondered how things would've turned out if the Tomas Kaberle for Jeff Carter & 2008 1st Round Pick wasn't blocked by Kaberle.

Carter broke out the next season for 80+ points, and the 1st rounder, assuming we still took Schenn at #5, likely could've been Jordan Eberle.

 

[ottomaddox]

“I always thought it was funny that Rask was always compared to me, and people are talking about it still. I never put any extra pressure on myself because of that. He did his thing, and I did mine, and it was just a different path.”

Justin Pogge

Justin Pogge chases storybook ending to his career - TheHockeyNews

 

[ottomaddox]

I always wondered how things would've turned out if the Tomas Kaberle for Jeff Carter & 2008 1st Round Pick wasn't blocked by Kaberle.

Carter broke out the next season for 80+ points, and the 1st rounder, assuming we still took Schenn at #5, likely could've been Jordan Eberle.

Carter was a hell of a player during that time. We might have had a different path if he were a leaf.

 

[ottomaddox]

 

[MapleLeafs9]

Toronto Remembers

 

[Havoc]

One of my best memories:

 

[robertmac43]

9-2 Nashville...Sometimes you got to look aback at the bad things to appreciate the good.

 

[ottomaddox]

Toronto Remembers

Leetch was still pretty good when Toronto traded for him. Francis...not so much. Still amazing to see all these great players in a leaf uniform.

 

[Pyrophorus]

9-2 Nashville...Sometimes you got to look aback at the bad things to appreciate the good.

The Leafs went 5-0 against the Preds after this game.
The streak came to an end last season.

 

[nsleaf]

Long time back but remember this well, was getting ready to graduate high school that year.

 

[Drew311]

Toronto remembers when Wendel Clark almost murdered Bruce Bell.

 

[Drew311]

I always wondered how things would've turned out if the Tomas Kaberle for Jeff Carter & 2008 1st Round Pick wasn't blocked by Kaberle.

Carter broke out the next season for 80+ points, and the 1st rounder, assuming we still took Schenn at #5, likely could've been Jordan Eberle.

It was rumoured that Vancouver was willing to trade Kesler + 1st for Sundin, which he also blocked. Imagine prime Carter and Kesler down the middle.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

9-2 Nashville...Sometimes you got to look aback at the bad things to appreciate the good.

Most of those guys are not even NHLers anymore, and I think Rielly is the only one who is still a Leaf.

Good riddance.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Most of those guys are not even NHLers anymore, and I think Rielly is the only one who is still a Leaf.

Good riddance.

Mo is the only Leaf that has been here more than 3 years. The other two were Kadri and Gardiner.

 

[Caser]

Doubt that a lot of people in Toronto remember the guy, who is about to become the new head coach of Team Russia.

 

[egd27]

Sure his best days were behind him but..........

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/wayne-gretzky-almost-became-member-maple-leafs-1996/

 

[ottomaddox]

Chris Kunitz announced his retirement and Toronto Remembers him not willing to waive his NTC in the Kessel trade. Good bye Kunitz ya jack a**.

Phil Kessel trade gives Maple Leafs picks, assets for rebuild | The Star

 

[qqaz]

From Sundin to Matthews, almost everything was dark. It's a span I'd rather not remember.

So how about I go farther back? Remember constantly beating the Sens in the playoffs? That was fun. Or how about Sundin's buzzer beater against carolina in the 2002 ECF? I had to look that one up, because I didn't remember the specifics.

 

[Dayjobdave]

One of my best memories:

greatest regular season goal in Leafs' history

 

[ottomaddox]

Does anyone remember this regular season goal?

 

[deletethis]

Miroslav Ihnacak had an auspicious debut scoring a goal in his first game. He came with considerable hype as a former Czechoslovakian scoring star. Some Leafs' fans dreamed mightily, others saw he was worst skater on the ice.

 

[Terrible GM]

From Sundin to Matthews, almost everything was dark. It's a span I'd rather not remember.

That era was no where dark as the mid 70s and 80s. Ballard was crazy AF. I started watching the Leafs in the mid 80s and they got dummied consistently but scored 3 to 5 goals a night. As a kid it was still entertaining.

If you are ever bored and want to read about Ballard in a entertaining manner, check out Joel Cadieux twitter or instagram. He is doing Harold Ballards bio with Lego. Here is the first story, and has dozens of them.

 

[slozo]

Revisiting the Gretzky hattrick in Game 7, 1993, the closest the Leafs came to playing for the cup in my lifetime, it was almost sickening to rewatch the those three goals.

. . . 1st one, I'm sure almost no one remembers, but it was actually our best player Gilmour who gave away the puck to Kurri on the pp, Kurri let himself get rubbed out after passing the puck perfectly (eliminating the 2nd D man) and on a 2 on 1, McSorely passed back and Gretz took it off his skate and didn't miss despite the sharp angle.
Alright, chalk one up to bad luck / bad giveaway.

2nd one, a harmless 3 on 3 rush turns into a brutal Manderville poke check/skate by on Gretz, and of course he buries it low from the slot, Ugh.

Then the third was . . .just, worse than a knife in the back.
After the Leafs had been pressing, comeback was coming with 4 minutes left, Gretzky on a LONE MAN RUSH is played well defensively by Todd Gill, steered around the net, and he oh-so casually with one hand expertly deflects it off Dave Ellet's skate into the corner of the net.

Very telling is that Joe Bowen calls it as "and as Gretzky attempts to centre it to nobody, it goes off Ellet's foot and in" . . . that should be the clue right there, Joe. Gretzky never centres to nobody, crimminy.

Anyways, thanks for making me go through that pain again, haven't relived that in a couple of years. But my absolute DREAM as a LEAFS FAN, is to be able to say - in 1, 5, 10, 20 years, doesn't matter - "I don't even remember that Gretzky hattty in game 7, man".
Because you know what that means.

We'll have either won a cup, or, I'll have Alzheimers.

 

[Alamo Leafer]

As much as I enjoyed some of the heydays of Mats, Dougie, Wendel, Tie, Tucker, Roberts & Nieuwendyk & the gang, sorry these 2 have to be my favorite memorables:


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