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Maple Leafs Scoring at 50 year Low
Last night's broadcast of the Maple Leafs/Dallas Stars game made a mention on the current team's goal scoring ineptitude (of course they would then score four in this game). The note was made that the...
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Wartime Hockey, Vancouver Norvan Shipyards
North Vancouver Waterfront Shipyards during WWIII live in North Vancouver, British Columbia and have for about 16 years now. As much as I still instinctively refer to Toronto and it's surrounding...
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Vancouver Area Hockey Jerseys, 1941/42
Last week I wrote about amateur hockey in British Columbia during World War II, http://nitzyshockeyden.blogspot.ca/2015/11/wartime-hockey-vancouver-norvan.html and this week I found old photos of some...
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1949 Maple Leafs Lineup Card
Here's something you don't see every day. I picked this beauty up recently, an original 1949 lineup card from Maple Leaf Gardens. It was given out for a Saturday night game between the Leafs and the...
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The First Vancouver Canucks Team, 1945/46
Above is a great photo from the Vancouver Archives of the Pacific Coast Hockey League, Vancouver Canucks. The photo is at he Vancouver Forum during the first ever season with the Canucks name used in...
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An 11 Point Night in 1943 for Walter 'Pinky' Melnyk
Walter 'Pinky' Melnyk. Not a household name perhaps. He never played in the NHL, but played parts of two seasons in the American Hockey League prior to WWII. In 1942/43 Melnyk was a member of the...
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Boston Bruins 1972 Coloring Book
Now, I'm about the farthest thing from a Boston Bruins fan. But this recent find, this right here, may be one of the cooler items in my den. A Bruins colo(u)ring book issued in about 1972. It's in...
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The Greatest Game Ever, 40 Years Later; Part 1
"That goal was one of the greatest moments of my life," declared Yvan Cournoyer about his 1972 Summit Series Game 8 tying goal in the third period. This statement was made mere days before he and his...
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The Greatest Game Ever, 40 Years Later; Part 2
"Probably the most important and far-reaching sporting contest ever held in this country." This is how Montreal Gazette writer Tim Burke described the New Years Eve 1975 game between Montreal...
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Was Bill Shvetz' Only NHL Game Missed in the Official Records?
Bill Shvetz was a career minor league defenceman who's nickname was 'The Destroyer'. He played nearly 1,000 professional games in the Western, Quebec and American Hockey Leagues, and according to the...
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Jack Hamilton, Youngest Four Goal Game Ever
Sam Bennett of Calgary scored four goals on January 13 thus becoming the third youngest player to do so in the NHL. Only Bobby Carpenter in 1981/82 and Jack Hamilton in 1943/44 were younger. Hamilton...
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Unidentified Players in Leafs '65 Book
I finally got a copy of the fantastic book pictured above. It's filled with never-before seen photos of life in Maple Leafs training camp which took place in Peterborough, Ontario in September of 1965....
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50 Year Old Maple Leaf Gardens Architectural Model
Harold Ballard and Stafford Smythe examine the modelA while back I wrote about a plan by Harold Ballard in the mid 1960's to expand Maple Leaf Gardens:...
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John Scott and Other Fleeting All-Stars
All-Star game Most Valuable Player John Scott may never play another game in the NHL. Sure his appearance in the mid-season spectacle was entertaining, but facts are facts. He is 33 years old, playing...
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Esso NHL Pocket Schedules
Last weekend I picked up a 1962/63 Esso NHL Pocket Schedule at the flea market. After getting it home to the Den, I realized I now had four different years of Esso Schedules from this era. Time to...
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1966/67 Victoria Maple Leafs Program
I recently picked up a 1966/67 Victoria Maple Leafs program from the Western Hockey League. This one completed the trifecta as I now have a program from each of the three season's the team was in...
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1912 New Westminster Royals
Here's some great images found in the City of Vancouver Archives online database. First is a cool team composite image of the inaugural Pacific Coast Hockey Association champions, New Westminster...
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Opening a 1980/81 Hockey Card Pack
A while back I bought a few unopened packs of hockey cards from the era of my childhood. I'll do a few posts of what I find inside over the next while. This 1980/81 Topps pack I got for $15 Canadian...
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Rene Boileau; "Chief Rainy Drinkwater"
Times have changed. That's about all that can be said about this story I stumbled across in the Montreal Gazette archives. It's the story of nondescript NHLer Rene Boileau, AKA Rainy Drinkwater. The...
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1934 Gyro Cup
Here's something really cool. A reader recently contacted me after finding an article I wrote a few years ago about a 1934 Toronto Maple Leafs tour of Western Canada. (found here) The Leafs and Detroit...
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