Leafs Trivia #5

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 10:32 AM EDT

Getting close to the end of these, just in time for training camp.

31. Who was the Leaf head coach that Punch Imlach replaced with himself (Punch Imlach)? - Billy Reay

32. There are two Leafs who have lent their names to a chain of doughnut shops. Tim Horton is one. Who is the other? - Eddie Shack

33. What ex-Leaf's name is still on a chain of hamburger restaurants in the GTA? - John Anderson

34. How many ex-Leafs have had their numbers retired by other NHL teams?

Brian Leetch – NYR
Ron Francis – Carolina
Tim Horton – Buffalo
Jacques Plante – Montreal
Dickie Moore – Montreal
Bernie Parent – Philadelphia
Lanny McDonald – Calgary
Rene Robert – Buffalo
Terry Sawchuk – Detroit
Grant Fuhr – Edmonton
Frank Finnigan – Ottawa

35. Of the following goaltenders (Gerry Cheevers, Bruce Gamble, Ed Johnston, Harry Lumley, Bernie Parent, Jacques Plante, Felix Potvin, Andrew Raycroft, Terry Sawchuk, Don Simmons), how many played for both Toronto and Boston? - All of them

36. How many Norris Trophy winners have ever played for the Leafs? - Four (Red Kelly, Pierre Pilote, Randy Carlyle, Brian Leetch)

37. In the famous picture of his winning goal in 1951, Bill Barilko is flying through the air after hooking skates with a teammate. Which teammate?

38. In the mid-80's, when Wednesday Leaf games were on CHCH in Hamilton, who did the Leafs play-by-play? He is now a much bigger name, though not one you'd associate with the Leafs. - Jim Hughson

39. Wendel Clark missed 14 games in his rookie season with a broken foot, an injury he suffered when hit by a teammate's slapshot. Which teammate? - Chris Kotsopoulos

40. Why did Alexander Godynyuk wear #93? - The third Russian to defect in the 90s.

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32. Clear the track, here comes Shack, we make donuts ’cause we got the knack!

34. Wow… OK, here’s a few to start with. Leetch, Fuhr, Tim Horton, Lanny, Parent, Francis, Gartner, Sawchuk

36. Leetch, Red Kelly, Carlyle, McCabe after this season
(side note: the Leafs are the only NHL team that Paul Coffey never played for)

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by Down Goes Brown on Sep 9, 2008 11:26 AM EDT reply actions

Yes to Shack, 3/4 of the Norris winners and all those for 34 are correct. I hadn’t been counting Gartner as it hasn’t happened yet, but that’s legit.

To make 34 a little easier to deal with, there are 11 (12 if you count Gartner.). One more had his number retired, but the team moved and put it back in service.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions

31 – Billy Raey

34 -Leetch, Fuhr, Horton, MacDonald, Parent, Francis, Gartner, Sawchuk, Anderson, Plante, Robert, Ley… am I missing one or is that it?

by general borschevsky on Sep 9, 2008 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Anderson is another new one this year, is it not? Hadn’t been counting him either. (I need to pay more attention to current events.)

By my count, you’re missing two. One is a Hab that nobody remembers played here (recent retiree) and the other is from an expansion team that was trying to tie itself to its earlier incarnation.

Ley was supposed to be the hard one, since Carolina unretired the number.

Yes to Billy Reay.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions

33. John Anderson! I drive by one every day.

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by PPP on Sep 9, 2008 11:40 AM EDT reply actions

Which one? I know there’s at least one in the east end. The one I pass is on Dundas and Erindale Station road in Mississauga.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions

Yup

That one. I can’t remember when but I remembed when there used to be a blue maple leaf in the logo until someone at OTPP noticed.

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by PPP on Sep 9, 2008 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Still there, AFAIK.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe I have my Mississauga streets mixed up. I am thinking of the one by the Loblaws, Blockbuster, and Beer Store on Dundas. The large logo has no leaf anymore.

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by PPP on Sep 9, 2008 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Hmm – it’s in an old mall, but can’t say I recall any of those others. This is right near the valley where the Credit River runs through. Not too far from Wolfedale and eventually Mavis (heading east).

Sign to me looks like the same sign that has been there since the 80’s – a blue Leaf with nothing in it under a big hamburger.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Actually, maybe it is there. From google maps, there’s a huge lot on the other side of the road that could house those things. There’s only the one in Mississauga, from what I can tell.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, that’s the one I am thinking of. I am going to have to doublecheck because after years of taking that leaf for granted I remember waking up one day thinking “Where the hell did it go?”

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by PPP on Sep 9, 2008 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions

And yes, that’s right.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions

35 – All of ’em.

by general borschevsky on Sep 9, 2008 12:17 PM EDT reply actions

Yes.

I had Doug Favell in the list, too, but he never made it off the farm team.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions

36 – Three

by general borschevsky on Sep 9, 2008 12:20 PM EDT reply actions

Four – we’re missing one. (Leetch, Kelly, Carlyle have been mentioned so far.)

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Our missing player won three, IIRC.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions

I had Pierre Pilote. I forgot about Carlyle.

by general borschevsky on Sep 9, 2008 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah – DGB had Carlyle. I said somewhere I needed to pay closer attention to current events….

So there’s our four.

by 1967ers on Sep 9, 2008 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Answers so far

31. Billy Reay
32. Eddie Shack
33. John Anderson
34. Horton , Robert, McDonald, Francis, Sawchuk, Fuhr, Plante, Leetch, Parent, Ley (since unretired), plus Gartner and Anderson later this year. Missing two – a Hab and a Sen….
35. all of them
36. Four – Kelly, Pilote, Carlyle, Leetch

by 1967ers on Sep 10, 2008 12:25 PM EDT reply actions

34 – Brad Marsh

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by PPP on Sep 10, 2008 1:17 PM EDT reply actions

We can’t count the players who had their numbers retired league-wide. That’s not really fair.

I have a Brad Marsh story that will someday make a fanpost.

by 1967ers on Sep 10, 2008 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions

Hints

34 – We’re missing a Habs forward whose number was retired within the past couple of years and who is still with us, and, to the best of my knowledge, the only Senator with a retired number – retired because he was the one remaining member of the original team when the bid for an expansion team was announced.
37 – He wore #17 and is mentioned in the Leafs by the Numbers post. Son also played here.
38 – Just joined the CBC, IIRC. You think of him as a westerner, but he’s not.
39 – Defender who cost us Stewie Gavin in trade.
40 – Godynyuk wore 93 for the same reason Fedorov wore 91.

by 1967ers on Sep 11, 2008 11:55 AM EDT reply actions

You guys are getting good. I miss a few days and the table’s almost clean!

39 – Chris Kotsopoulos

34 – Brian Leetch – NYR
Ron Francis – Carolina
Tim Horton – Buffalo
Jacques Plante – Montreal
Dickie Moore – Montreal
Bernie Parent – Philadelphia
Lanny McDonald – Calgary
Rene Robert – Buffalo
Terry Sawchuk – Detroit
Grant Fuhr – Edmonton
Frank Finnigan – Ottawa

by Grabovski's better than you think on Sep 11, 2008 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Yep – that takes care of 34 and 39 – it was Moore and Finnigan that were missing.

Still looking for 37. It isn’t Floyd Smith or Dick Duff….

by 1967ers on Sep 12, 2008 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions

38 – Jim Hughson! GRRRRREAT SAVE BY POTVIN!!

right?

40 – The year he left the Soviet Union and doomed the rest of his family to a painful death in a Siberian Gulag?

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

38 – yes
40 – closer than you think. Federov was the first Soviet defector of the 90’s, (hence 91). Alexander was #93….

by 1967ers on Sep 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions

So he was the third to bolt?

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions

yep.

by 1967ers on Sep 11, 2008 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Third Soviet defector of the 90’s. Can’t remember who was second.

by 1967ers on Sep 11, 2008 1:58 PM EDT reply actions

uh-oh

I have information from an inside source that former Leaf Alexander Mogilny was the first to defect to the NHL in 1989.

Mogilny chose the number 89 in recognition of both the year he defected and his place in the draft

Oh wait. It says: of the 90’s! Read more carefully, goofball!

by general borschevsky on Sep 11, 2008 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions