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Inside The Leafs Dressing Room, 1964
Following are excerpts from a Toronto Maple Leafs game program of Saturday November 28, 1964. The story, penned by Leaf P.R. Director Stan Obodiac, provides an interesting look inside the workings of...
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Schinkel to Shack to Schock
In recently reading an autobiography on Eddie Shack "Clear The Track", his time with the Pittsburgh Penguins was highlighted by playing on a colourful line. Early in the 1972/73 season he was team up...
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Bert Corbeau Hangs 'em Up
Bert 'Pig Iron' Corbeau was a defenceman during the inaugural season of the National Hockey League. Born in Penetanguishine, Ontario on the shore of Georgian Bay, Corbeau was considered huge in his...
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Four Games in Four Nights, Game One
As NHL training camps kick into gear, my own beer league season is under way as well. This weekend, I have a gruelling four games in a row Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Gruelling, if only for...
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Four Games in Four Nights, Game Two
As NHL training camps kick into gear, my own beer league season is under way as well. This weekend, I have a gruelling four games in a row Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Gruelling, if only for...
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Four Games in Four Nights, Game Three
As NHL training camps kick into gear, my own beer league season is under way as well. This weekend, I have a gruelling four games in a row Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Gruelling, if only for...
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Four Games in Four Nights, Game Four
As NHL training camps kick into gear, my own beer league season is under way as well. This weekend, I have a gruelling four games in a row Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Gruelling, if only for...
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Happy Birthday Darryl Sittler
I heard that today is the birthday of one of my childhood heroes Darryl Sittler as well as the great Peter Stastny. With 1121 and 1239 points respectively for the two Hall of Famers, I wondered if...
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A Look at Maple Leafs Training Camp 70 years ago
I have finally got around to reading my 1950 copy of "Come on Teeder" by Ed Fitkin, the story of Toronto Maple Leaf captain Ted Kennedy. I'm reading it gently, as it's quite rare and not in perfect...
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The Original KLM Line
Most hockey fans are aware of the famous KLM line that skated for the Soviet Union throughout the 1980's. Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov were perhaps one of the greatest units on...
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Leafs with Two Road Wins to Start a Season, First Time in Franchise History
Two road games to start a season, two road victories. That may not seem like much, but it's literally the very first time the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise that it has occurred.The Maple...
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Maple Leafs Dynasty Halted by New NHL Rules?
At the conclusion of the 1963/64 NHL season, the Toronto Maple Leafs had won the previous three Stanley Cups. Throughout the hockey world, the Leafs were regarded as an older, grinding, defence-first...
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6-1 start for the Maple Leafs, does it mean anything?
It's official, Toronto's start to the 2013/14 season is their best one in twenty years. The Leafs haven't been better than 6-1-0 to start a season since their NHL record 10-0-0 beginning to the 93/94...
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Crosby Having a Nice Start
With 17 points in his first 9 games of 2013/14, many are already talking about Sidney Crosby having a season for the ages. The real impressive thing is the era in which he is producing such outstanding...
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Buffalo Sabres Are Back to Square One
Through the first 14 games of 2013/14 the Buffalo Sabres have a record of 2-11-1.After the first 14 games of their expansion year in 1970/71 they went 2-11-1.Was the first ever incarnation of the...
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Primary Points
I recently discovered the website extraskater.com, if you like in depth hockey statistics you'll love it.On the site, you can sort NHL players into many different categories of stats from Percentage of...
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1948/49 Hockey Album
I picked up this gem on the weekend, a 65 year old book just loaded with rare photos. The photos are from the legendary Turofsky Studios of Toronto.Pictured above are very early shots of Gordie Howe...
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Dave Keon Skate Sharpener
Another recent acquisition of the Den. I have never seen this item before and just had to have it. The Dave Keon Skate Sharpener is from the mid-1960's and still has the price-tag from Woodward's...
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Stastny's Taped Captain "C"
Above is the cover for the NHL Goal Magazine from February 1983. Quebec Nordique, Peter Stastny is shown proudly displaying the captain "C" , but the problem is Stastny did not take over the Quebec...
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Showdown '78 Poster
I had this poster on my bedroom wall as a kid and had kind of forgotten about it. It probably is one of the first pieces of the collection that came to be my Hockey Den. Showdown was a contest staged...
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