OMG if you people hate my site so much why do you go and make one yourselfs. You think you can make it better then go right ahead.
For the people who do support this site thank you for your support. it's greatly appreciated.
AS FOR YOU PEOPLE YOU LIKE THE DEVILS. FOR YOUR INFORMATION THOSE PEOPLE HAVE NO ONE SUPPORTING THEM. DID YOU EVER SEE THEIR ARENA??? IT'S SO EMPTY. THEY HAVE NOOOOOOOOO SUPPORT!!!!!!!! aT LEAST WE SUPPORT OUR BELOVED LEAFS!!!!!
I HAVE CHANGED THE PLAYER OF THE MONTH AND THANKS TO YOUR VOTES ITS DARCY TUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the new part of my page. Every two month i'm going to post the maple leafs players who's birthday is on that month i'm going to post the players birthdays of this month January & February
As you have already heard on Hockey Night in Canada the players' wives along with the actual players have joined the fight for breast cancer. The players each auctioned off their special adition helmet with the pink ribbon on the back.
Injured People:
-Joe Nieuwendyk-out for back spasms.
-Nik Antropov-out for a seperate shoulder.
-Trevor Kidd-out for shoulder surgery.
Vote Leafs
Matt Sundin, Owen Nolan, Alex Mogliny, Eddie Belfour, Bryan McCabe, Thomas Kaberle,Joe Nieuwendyk are on the ballot for the 2004 NHL All Stars. Go to the Website to vote the Leafs' players in.
1927-On Valentine's Day Con Smythe purchased the team and decided on the Maple Leaf as the teams namesake and crest.
1928-The first official home jersey was introduced.
1931-Maple Leaf Gardens opened its doors. The leafs won in the first decade on their new home.
1940's-The Maple Leafs won five stanley cups, weathered and filled lively Maple Leaf Gardens with a new and impassioned generation of "True-Blue" hockey fans.
1950's-It was a decade of change for the Maple Leafs, who began the 50's trying to defend their three consecutive stanley cup championships but ended it on an eight-year cup drought. The team's only triumph was destroyed by tragedy, when Bill Barilko died in a plane crash the summer following his 1951 cup-winning overtime goal over Montreal. The decade's whirlwind of newcomers included George Armstrong, Tim Horton, Johnny Bower, Harold Bailard and Punch Imlach, all of whom would one day be honoured as HAll of Famers.
1960's-rivaled the 1940's as the most glorious and sucessful years in Maple Leafs history. A new generation of stars led the Leafs to four stanley cup victories, including three in sucession, and established Maple Leaf Gardens as a place of Legend.
1970's- As the league expanded from six teams to twelve, the leafs slipped off ht elofty perch they occupied for most of the glorious 1960's.
1980's- These were the dark years for hockey in Toronto. Leaf fans watched their team flounder in the lower half of the standing and watched stars like Sittler, Palmateer and Turnbull move on to other clubs. Wendal Clark was introduced to the leafs in 1985, giving the fans for a glimpse of a new direction for the team.
1990's- A trade brought Doug Glimour(a tenacious new leader) to the Leafs. The on-ice sucess stroked the fever of success among Toronto fans, and reawakened the franchise's great winning tradition. The Leafs also marked the decade by closing the doors of Maple Leaf Gardens and moving to a new home, the Air Canada Centre (Feb. 20th 1999), where Leafs stars like Sundin and Curtis Joesph can add their own chapters to the fabled history of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Here's a statement of a TML fan since 1927 on the opening night of Maple Leaf Gardens........
"The City was electic. Maple Leaf Gardens, bathed in the glow of floodlights for its grand opening, was gleaming. No one seemed able to truly comprehend hoe Conn Smythe had become such a magician, turning a block of old shops and homes into a hockey palace in only 165 days with no money. But dreams do come true. The New Area was everything the old Arena Gardens was not: beautiful, spacious and mondern. Arena Garderns was not decrepit by any means, but it was certainly wasn't glamorous. Maple Leaf Garderns was. The first event at the new edifice would of course, be a hockey game. On Opening night, Nov. 12th 1931, the Chicago Blackhawks were in town. The first game at Maple Leaf Gardens ended in a 2-1 victory for the visitng Chicago Blackhawks."
Taken from Tom Gaston's book: A Fan for All Seasons
Each month you can vote on which tml player you want to be player of the month. For the Month of December the TML of the Month is.........Alex Mogliny!!!!!!!!!!!!
To vote for January's Player of the Month. Please e mail me at tmlinfo101@yahoo.com!!!!!!!!!
ALEX MOGLINY
NUMBER: 89
Position: Right Wing
Shoots: Left
Height: 6 feet
Weight: 200 lbs
Birthdate: Feb 18, 1969
Birthplace: Khabarovsk, Russia
Aquired: Signed as a free agent July 3rd 2001
SNAPSHOT
-league's premier snipers.
-heaviest most deceptive wrist shots in the league.
-His quick release has resulted in two 50-goal
seasons while also providing solid two-way play.
-ability to score in bunches intimidates opposing defenders and frees up teammates in the offensive zone.
CAREER
-Drafted by the Buffalo Sabres, 89th overall, in the 1988 Entry Draft
-With the Buffalo Sabres in the 1992-93 season, Mogilny scored an incredible 76 goals (1st in NHL)and added 127 points playing alongside Pat LaFontaine
-Mogilny was traded to Vancouver from Buffalo in 1995 along with a draft pick for Mike Peca, Mike Wilson and first-round pick
-With Canucks scored 55 goals, reaffirming his status as one of the best goal
scorers in 1995-96
-Has played in four NHL All Star Games (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996)
-Traded to the New Jersey Devils for Brendan Morrison and Denis Pederson in
2000
-Earned a Stanley Cup victory with the New Jersey Devils in 2000
-Signed with the Leafs July 3, 2001
-Scored his 400th career goal on October 8th, 2001 vs. Anaheim
PERSONAL
-Alexander and wife Natalia have two children, Alex and Anna
-Mogilny was sworn in as a United States citizen in July 2000
-He is an avid golfer
-Alexander names Jack Nicholson as the person he would most like to meet
Every friday I will put up info on a greatest leaf player of the past. I'm doing this so leafs fans of the young and the old can remember and learn about the greatest leaf players. That we still love them and that they will never be forgotten. This week's greatest player of the past is........Bill Barilko
BILL BARILKO
1946-47 TO 1950-51
Name: William (Bill) Barilko
NICKNAME: Bashin' Bill also called dumb dumb.
BORN: Timmins, Ontario, March 25th 1927
DIED: Cochrane, Ontario, Augest 26th 1951
-He had be summoned from hollywood of the pacific coast hockey league late in the 1946-47 season and helped the leafs win the Stanley Cup in each of the first three seasons.
-Bill Barilko was not known for his offensive talent, yet scored one of the most famous goalsin NHL history.
- On April 21st 1951, Barilko lifted a shot past Gerry McNeil of the Montreal Canadiens for a goal at 2:53 of overtime that won the Stanley Cup for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
-In the Off-season, Barilko was killed in a plane crash while on a fishing trip in Northern, Ontario. It was 11 years before his body was found and ll years before the TML won the Stanley cup again.
-Barilko was thought to be in the verge of stardom at the time of his death.
THE GOAL THAT WON THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS THE STANLEY CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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