Last call for our Maple Leaf memories poll!

We’re beginning to compile the results from those who have filled out our Maple Leaf memories poll. If you haven’t done so already, take a...

NHL trade deadline around the corner: Who will the Leafs deal and Sunday musings

 I read an interesting comment from Leaf coach Ron Wilson this week, where he essentially suggested he didn’t need to win a gold medal to...

The Olympic hockey curmudgeon: Why modern-day Olympic hockey doesn’t work for me

Though Canada is in the final—and at the risk of sounding un-patriotic—I’m not a big fan of modern-day Olympic hockey. Now, as I wrote re...

Will the Leafs ever have another end-of-season NHL All-Star?

With the Olympics winding down, NHL hockey returns shortly. The Leafs will continue to rebuild the...

As Canada celebrates the demolition of Team Russia last night, Vintage Leaf remembers the 1979 Super Series versus Russia that we choose to forget

  In one episode of “Seinfeld” back in the ‘90s, Jerry refuses to be lured into a re-match of a r...

Take our Poll!

If you haven’t already taken part in our poll about your Maple Leaf memories of the past fifty+ years, we invite you to take a moment to do ...

1980 Canadian Olympic Hockey Coach Tom Watt: from the University of Toronto to the Maple Leafs

When I arrived in the “big smoke” (Toronto) to pursue my academic studies in the fall of 1972 at th...

Youthful Olympic memories

Like most people, not all my Olympic memories relate to hockey, though I did post recently on Fran H...

Vintage Leaf Memories Poll

If you scroll down this page, you will see our Vintage Leaf Memories poll. A number of readers have already filled it out, but we’ll keep t...

Fran Huck: A real Canadian hockey Olympian

I know people are excited about the Olympic hockey tournament ongoing in Vancouver, and rightfull...

No Olympic hockey secrets this time around? Just like Sittler and Salming in the 1976 Canada Cup.

I saw an interview with Detroit’s Henrik Zetterberg recently. He was smiling as he talked about the ...

The Vintage Leaf Memories Reader “Poll”

With the Leafs in the midst of the NHL Olympic break, it’s perhaps a good time to conduct a poll, to get a sense of how some of our readers ...

When the Montreal dynasty ended for good: From Bouchard to the Rocket to Beliveau—and how Lafleur dropped the torch

Vintage Leaf first wrote and published the column below for "The Hockey Writers" web si...

Vintage Leaf Memories week in review and coming soon - a new poll

Over the past week, we posted on a range of topics. Vintage Leaf looked back at some of the Newfoundland-born Maple leaf players through th...

Maple Leafs who played for Canada at the Olympics

While a few Leafs are destined for international duty at the Olympics this week, none will be sui...

With the Olympics underway, Vintage Leaf remembers Canadian Olympian- goaltender Seth Martin and the Trail Smoke Eaters

When I was really young, probably seven years of age, I played a game on our living room...

Blues-Leafs: post-game thoughts

Were the Leafs as focused as they needed to be, with a two-week vacation coming up—or, in the case of a few players, when they have a much m...