Toronto Maple Leafs Trivia – From Easy to Impossible

Toronto Maple Leafs - Mats Sundin #13 on March 22, 2003 in Toronto, Ontario (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI)
Toronto Maple Leafs - Mats Sundin #13 on March 22, 2003 in Toronto, Ontario (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI)
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Toronto Maple Leafs – Jean-Sebastien Giguere #35 and Tomas Kaberle #15 celebrate at the Air Canada Centre December 4, 2010 in Toronto (Photo by Abelimages / Getty Images)

It’s time to see how well you know the Toronto Maple Leafs with this progressively more difficult game of trivia all about the team and its history.

Gather your friends and prepare for a quiz to test your knowledge about the Original Six team that has the best fans on the planet. Emerce yourself in Toronto Maple Leafs trivia.

The quiz is broken into four different levels. It begins with easy, moves to medium, then hard, and finishes with impossible level questions.

Not only can you gain bragging rights by getting questions right but you are recommended to spend time with the answer to each question to learn more about the Leafs.

Easy Level Questions

1. Where was Mats Sundin Born?

a) Finland
b) Sweden
c) Canada
d) Estonia

2. Other than Auston Matthews, who was Toronto’s only first overall NHL Draft pick?

a) Wendel Clark
b) Lanny McDonald
c) Gary Nylund
d) Russ Courtnall

3. A Maple Leafs player owns the record for most points in a single game with ten. Who accomplished the feat?

a) Darryl Sittler
b) Dave Keon
c) Auston Matthews
d) John Tavares

4. Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard once asked Roger Neilson to coach wearing what over his head?

a) A Christmas wreath
b) A ski mask
c) A paper bag
d) A Frankenstein mask

5. Mats Sundin was drafted first overall by which team?

a) Hartford Wailers
b) Atlanta Thrashers
c) Quebec Nordiques
d) Toronto Maple Leafs

6. How many arenas were home to the Toronto Maple Leafs?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

7. Which nickname doesn’t match the player?

a) Cecil Henry “Babe” Dye
b) Leonard Patrick “Red” Kelly
c) David James “Tiger” Williams
d) George “Patch” Imlach

8. Which organization once owned the Toronto Maple Leafs?

a) Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO)
b) Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan (OTIP)
c) Ontario College of Teachers (OCT)
d) Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP)

10. What’s the Maple Leafs’ mascot name?

a) Garden Bear
b) Smokey the Bear
c) Blue the Bear
d) Carlton the Bear

Interesting Defenceman Trivial Factoids

  • Maple Leafs player Borje Salming was the first NHL defenceman trained in Europe to get 500 points in the league. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996.
  • Despite having had many excellent defencemen, no Maple Leafs player has ever won a Norris Trophy.
  • Rasmus Sandin has a brother who plays pro hockey. He plays in the Swedish Elite League.
  • When Luke Schenn was playing minor hockey for the Saskatoon Red Wings he was coached by his father Jeff
  • Even though Maple Leafs defenceman Bryan Berard suffered a serious slash to his eye’s sclera he managed to play six more seasons in the NHL. His retina was torn his retina detached when Marian Hossa’s stick stuck Berard in his right eye. Doctors initially believed he’d lose his eye.