If I can only scrounge up $2.50 to go the game tonight. Even seventy-five cents if I don’t mind sitting up high. Of course it’ll cost me about $900 to fly to Toronto and back. So all in all, to be there when the Canadiens wipe out Don Cherry’s love children would be about $902.50, [...]

Not long ago a couple of folks here wondered how teams are able to keep track of all the players’ ice-time during a game. I wasn’t clear either, so I began looking around my stacks of magazines and through old boxes, and I came up with an answer. Of course, the answer comes from 1959 [...]

My dad and I went to see our Habs in Toronto when I was little, we got to Maple Leaf Gardens early, and as we stood in the corridor, much of team, maybe all of the team, walked by us – The Rocket, Beliveau, Plante, Geoffrion, Moore – everybody. Shortly after, we went down by [...]

When you see a building being built that takes maybe a year to finish, think about this; Maple Leaf Gardens was built during the depression in just five months. It takes me that long to build a fence gate. Conn Smythe recruited several rich buddies to invest in the Gardens, and when the money fell [...]

In honour of the big Habs-Leafs game Saturday night in Toronto, I’ve decided to dip once again into the cache of letters I found recently, and show a couple of replies from Maple Leaf  Gardens, turning me down for the ever-elusive great seats which I had made it my mission to someday achieve. I was a just a regular guy with [...]

From my collection, this original accounts payable sheet is from Frank J. Selke, signed at the bottom, to various writers who had contributed stories to the Maple Leafs Gardens program in 1938. Frank Selke, before he became the iconic GM of the Montreal Canadiens from 1946 to 1964, was an assistant and right-hand man to Conn Smythe in Toronto, from 1929 [...]

There was a bright side to the dismal display in Dallas Tuesday evening. The cameras at the American Airlines Center in Dallas seem to be lower than in most rinks, the players were closer, and the view reminded me of telecasts out of the Forum and Maple Leaf Gardens instead of the eight miles high sightline we get on most [...]

On August 31, 1931, a baby boy was born in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, and he was the classiest baby in the entire hospital. In his brief stay there with his mom, this little baby was the leader of babies, helping them calm down after a crying session, gently reminding each of them that it was okay to let [...]

The things you find in a January 6, 1940 Toronto Daily Star. There’s an ad for a game at 8.30 between the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens, with good tickets available at 75 cents, $1.50, $2.00, and $2.50. There’s a nice photo of star left winger for the Canadiens, Toe Blake, and [...]

Things were going so well. Rinks in Montreal, New York, Toronto, Boston, Chicago and Detroit were filled with people looking like they were going to church and went in the wrong building by mistake. Fedoras, shawls, hats with feathers in them, polished shoes, diamonds, all on display in the seats above as players grunted and spit and [...]