It’s been a long couple months, but the Toronto Maple Leafs by the numbers series finally ended yesterday, with impossible question of Turk Broda or Johnny Bower.
When there were multiple entries, I had a poll for you to vote on who you thought best wore the number. Aside from one kinda big dummy mistake on my part were I convinced myself George Armstrong was famous for #10 not #9 like all the evidence clearly said, it went pretty well. So, without further delay, here are the Maple Leafs top player for each number as picked by the readers. Default choices are marked with an asterisk*, and only the top two votes will be compared, for full results you can check out the number post.
99. Wilf Paiement*
96. Phil Housley*
94. Sergei Berezin - 81% over Yanic Perrault - 19%
93. Doug Gilmour - 94% over Alexander Godynyuk - 6%
So 6% were trolls, that’s good.
92. Jeff O’Neil*
89. Alexander Mogilny*
88. Eric Lindros*
84. Mikhail Grabovski*
81. Phil Kessel*
80. Nik Antropov*
77. Pavel Kubina*
73. Pavel Kubina*
72. Mathieu Schnieder*
71. Mike Foligno - 70% over David Clarkson - 30%
67. Ban the number - 53% over Robert Svehla - 30%
63. Dave Bolland*
59. Keith Aulie - 84% over Jamie Devane - 11%
57. Andrew MacWilliam
56. Byron Froese - 68% over Andy Wozniewski - 16%
55. Danny Markov - 41% over Larry Murphy - 25%
54. Frederik Gauthier - 82% over Kris Newbury - 18%
53. Mike Kostka - 52% over Sam Carrick - 26%
52. Alexander Karpovtsev - 62% over Martin Marincin - 31%
51. Jake Gardiner - 93% over Rickard Walin - 5%
50. Jonas Gustavsson - 67% over Stuart Percy - 23%
49. Brendan Leipsic - 84% over Dimitri Yaskushin - 16%
48. Jeremy Williams - 38% over Ryan Hamilton - 32%
47. Leo Komarov - 98% - Darryl Boyce - 2%
46. Roman Polak - 61% - Joey Crabb - 23%
Aw, you all do love him!
45. Carlo Colaiacovo - 44% over Jonathan Bernier - 38%
44. Morgan Rielly - 88% over Yanic Perrault - 10%
43. Nazem Kadri - 97% over Jay Harrison - 1%
42. Tyler Bozak - 70% over Kyle Wellwood - 28%
41. Nikolai Kulemin - Left out of poll
Okay I now realize I fudged this one up, but he would have won over Matt Stajan, who only wore #41 for one game.
40. Tie Domi - 80% over Michael Grabner - 18%
Two games of Domi over a season of Grabner, eh?
39. William Nylander - 65% over Alexei Ponikarovsky - 14%
38. Frazer McLaren - 40% over Yannick Tremblay - 27%
37. Ian White - 44% over Kasperi Kapanen - 31%
36. Dmitry Yushkevich - 62% over Carl Gunnarsson - 21%
35. Jean-Sebastien Giguere - 45% over Vesa Toskala - 25%
34. Auston Matthews - 84% over James Reimer - 7%
33. Al Iafrate - 76% over Wade Belak - 10%
32. Steve Thomas - 76% over Mike Eastwood - 6%
31. Curtis Joseph - 84% over Frederik Andersen - 6%
30. Terry Sawchuk - 69% over Bruce Gamble - 8%
29. Felix Potvin - 65% over William Nylander - 21%
28. Tie Domi - 65% over Connor Brown - 18%
27. Darryl Sittler - 68% over Frank Mahovlich - 28%
26. Allan Stanley - 54% over Mike Krushelnyski - 10%
25. James van Riemsdyk - 37% over Peter Zezel - 35%
24. Bryan McCabe - 68% over Brian Glennie - 12%
23. Eddie Shack - 40% over Todd Gill - 30%
22. Rick Vaive - 74% over Tiger Williams - 15%
21. Borje Salming - 84% over Bob Baun - 6%
20. Bob Pulford - 43% over Ed Belfour - 38%
19. Paul Henderson - 37% over Bill Derlago - 18%
18. Jim McKenny - 43% over Peter Ihnačák - 23%
17. Wendel Clark - 96% over Rick Kehoe - 1%
16. Darcy Tucker - 43% over Mitchell Marner - 29%
15. Tomas Kaberle - 72% over Howie Meeker - 13%
14. Dave Keon - 88% over Dave Andreychuk - 7%
13. Mats Sundin over Ken Linesman
No poll on this one, anything for Ken, and I’m sure he’s a nice guy, would have been a troll vote.
12. Ron Stewart - 35% over Errol Thompson - 20%
11. Gary Leeman - 33% over Tod Sloan - 29%
10. George Armstrong - 48% over Ted Kennedy - 41%
9. Charlie Conacher - 62% over Norm Ullman - 23%
8. Sid Smith - 47% over Ron Ellis - 13%
7. Tim Horton - 67% over Lanny McDonald - 14%
6. Ron Ellis - 51% over Ace Bailey - 49%
5. Bill Barilko - 67% over Bob Davidson - 15%
4. Red Kelly - 63% over Hap Day - 22%
3. Dion Phaneuf - 38% over Gus Mortson - 17%
2. Ian Turnbull - 51% over Carl Brewer - 11%
1. Johnny Bower - 64% over Turk Broda - 29%
There are the top Leafs to wear each number as voted by PPP readers. The closest vote we had was between Ron Ellis and Ave Bailey.
Thank you all for voting, and enjoy the Centennial game this afternoon, or evening, or whenever you watch it.
