BRIAN MCFARLANE

Like other Leafs captains before him, such as Ted Kennedy, Syl Apps and George Armstrong, Dave Keon could do it all. He was a gifted goal scorer, a tireless ...

SOME FABULOUS HOCKEY RECORDS AND A FEW LESS MEMORABLE ONES Players and teams have set some amazing records in hockey. They’ve also established some that are ...

In their third NHL season, the Blackhawks won a mere seven games in a 44-game schedule.

By Brian McFarlane Over the years, I've been asked to act as master of ceremonies or guest speaker at numerous sports banquets. It was always a bonus wheneve...

By Brian McFarlane I was chatting on the phone with TV producer Mark Askin recently when the subject of Bobby Baun’s famous “broken leg” goal came. Askin onc...

LEONARD “RED” KELLY By Brian McFarlane For 33 years, after each hockey season ended, my wife and I would fly to New York for the Canadian Association of New ...

December 12, 1933, was a black day in the history of Boston hockey. A check delivered in anger — and from behind — by Bruins tough guy Eddie Shore ended an o...

This International Midget Tournament ran for more than 30 years in Richmond Hill - 1968 - 2001. Hundreds of Players in the Tournament went on to the NHL and ...

On November 16, 1926, the New York Rangers made their Madison Square Garden debut against the swashbuckling Montreal Maroons, a big, bruising club and the de...

Ace Bailey was a superb left winger for the Leafs in the late 1920s and early ’30s. Despite a career shortened by a near-fatal incident on December 12, 1933,...

On April Fools’ Day, 1933, a record crowd filled Maple Leaf Gardens for the fifth and deciding game of the semifinal playoff series between Boston and Toront...

He learned to skate wearing girls skates, stumbling around the outdoor ice on Poverty Pond in West Toronto. His skates and sticks were hand-me-downs, discard...

When I was a lad, every kid on skates in Canada aspired to play hockey at Maple Gardens or the Montreal Forum. Growing up in a small town (Whitby) only a few...

The inaugural season of the NHL was an agonizing one, and by the time a Toronto team, the Blueshirts, skated off with the Stanley Cup in the spring of 1918, ...

Pat Stapleton talks with Brian McFarlane I don’t have any bad memories of Team Canada in 72. There were a lot of things that you could go over and decide th...

1942 Stanley Cup Finals: Leafs versus Red Wings Old-time Leafs fans will never forget the Stanley Cup final series in 1942. It matched the Leafs, coached by ...

As you might know, I’ve spent a long time living, reporting and researching the history of hockey and there’s nothing I love more than telling a good hockey...