Posts About "Mats Sundin"
Maple Leafs News & Rumors: Draft Lottery, Koponen, Gretzky & Sundin
June 27th, 2020 This is a certifiably crazy season. If you are a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey fan, here’s what you know today that you didn’t know yesterday: Your team has a 12.5% chance of picking first in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. All the Maple Leafs have to do to get that chance is to lose their five-game play-in series with the Columbus Blue...
Today in Hockey History: June 17
June 17th, 2020 There was a trio of Stanley Cup Final games played on this date with one providing and huge upset and another extending the season for one last game. Also, an Entry Draft took place on June 17 that brought some big names and future Hall of Famers into the National Hockey League. Devils Record-Setting Upset On June 17, 1995, the...
The Maple Leafs and the Legacy of the Muskoka Five
May 23rd, 2020 Originally published in 2012 February 11, 2012 was a bittersweet night for Toronto Maple Leafs fans. Mats Sundin, the classy and consummate captain, was honoured with his #13 raised to the rafters. A familiar face in Tomas Kaberle took the ceremonial face-off. The Maple Leafs squad was horribly overmatched on the night, losing 5-0 to...
Top 10 Offensive Seasons in Maple Leafs History
May 19th, 2020 In 2018-19, as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Mitch Marner tallied 26 goals and 94 points for a team that - once again - was knocked out in the first round of the playoffs. That same season, John Tavares tallied 88 points in his first season with the Maple Leafs and they were the highest single-season totals for any Maple...
Wendel Clark for Mats Sundin: 25 Years Later
May 16th, 2020 June 28 will be the anniversary of one of the most remarkable trades in Toronto Maple Leafs history. It was the trade that sent Maple Leafs captain and fan-favorite Wendel Clark for a young Swedish center iceman named Mats Sundin. Related: What Mats Sundin Meant to Toronto Hockey The trade, at the time, shocked Toronto’s...
Today in Hockey History: April 6
April 6th, 2020 April 6 has had its fair share of historical moments. One of the National Hockey League’s biggest legends scored his final goal in his last regular-season game. Another legend had the greatest season in the history of the game. The Hockey Hall of Fame is full of the names who had big moments on this date. Howe’s Final...
Toronto Maple Leafs' Top-20 Goal Scorers All-Time
April 3rd, 2020 Throughout the Maple Leafs' 100-plus year existence, they have been home to many great, Hall of Fame calibre players. Many of their best players had extended careers with the team, and today we're going to discuss the top-20 highest scoring players to ever play for the blue and white. No. 1: Mats Sundin, 420 Goals The lone...
Ottawa Senators' Daniel Alfredsson: Hall of Fame Worthy?
April 3rd, 2020 In the almost 30 years that the modern-day Ottawa Senators have existed, they have yet to have a player inducted into the Hockey Hockey Hall of Fame. While many fantastic players have donned the Centurian, none have been deemed worthy of entry into those hallowed halls. Daniel Alfredsson is without a doubt, the greatest Senator to...
Then and Now: The Maple Leafs All-Time Centres
March 14th, 2020 From time to time The Hockey Writers' editors look back on old articles that generated some buzz. Today, Mar. 14, marks the anniversary of Hockey Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler becoming the all-time leading goal scorer in Toronto Maple Leafs history, we're re-publishing this great piece by Andrew Forbes recounting the best centres in...
What Mats Sundin Meant to Toronto Hockey
March 10th, 2020 Though Sundin was a quiet leader, fans and members of the media alike will never forget what Mats Sundin did for Toronto hockey. Anyone who's a legitimate Maple Leafs advocate will say it doesn't matter that Sundin never won hockey's most hallowed prize.
Nordiques/Avalanche Players with 100-Point Seasons
February 7th, 2020 With two Stanley Cups and six Hockey Hall of Famers in their 41-year franchise history, the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche have had six 100-plus point players on their team. The club has had at least one of these elite players on the squad in 14 different seasons. Only two players were with the Avalanche and only one player solely...
Sundin on Leafs' Struggles: 'You're Very Exposed in a Market like Toronto'
November 17th, 2019 TORONTO — Mats Sundin knows what life's like when things are going well for the Maple Leafs. Players feel as if they're on top of the world, seemingly unable to do any wrong. But when the shoe's on the other foot — like it is for Toronto's current roster — there's also nowhere to hide. Exposure in Toronto "It's a...
Comparing Today’s Maple Leafs’ Forwards With Best of All-Time
December 28th, 2018 In 2016, the Toronto Maple Leafs celebrated their Centennial Anniversary home opener. Attendant to that 100-years’ celebration was a retrospection of Maple Leafs’ history. At the time, a number of lists of “the best Maple Leafs’ players” of all time being were constructed. In 2015, THW’s Andrew Forbes...
