Medium Level Questions
1. Which of the following players was never a Toronto Maple Leafs captain?
a) Tim Horton
b) Rob Ramage
c) Sid Smith
d) Charlie Conacher
2. Who had the most shutouts as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs?
a) Johnny Bower
b) Turk Broda
c) Harry Lumley
d) Mike Palmateer
3. What was the first team name of the Toronto Maple Leafs organization?
a) Toronto Blueshirts
b) Toronto Arenas
c) Toronto Huskies
d) Toronto St. Patricks
4. Who has played the most games with the Toronto Maple Leafs?
a) Allan Stanley
b) Doug Gilmour
c) George Armstrong
d) Tie Domi
5. What’s true about Harold Ballard, the Leafs’ majority owner from 1972-1990?
a) He had ten children
b) He owned and flew three personal blimps
c) He ran two soup kitchens and volunteered at both every Sunday
d) He spent three years in prison
6. Which Leafs GM traded Tuukka Rask to Boston for Andrew Raycroft?
a) John Ferguson Jr.
b) Brian Burke
c) Cliff Fletcher
d) Dave Nonis
7. Who was Phil Kessel’s roommate in Toronto?
a) Colby Armstrong
b) Tomas Kaberle
c) Tyler Bozak
d) Joffrey Lupul
Interesting Coaching Trivial Factoids
- Roger Neilson who started his NHL coaching career with the Leafs is the only person to coach eight teams in the league.
- Dick Irvin owns the record for consecutive years coaching in the NHL. He did the job for 26 years. Irvin spent nine of those seasons behind the Leafs bench.
- Two Maple Leafs coaches share the record for the shortest tenure as the team’s head coach. Both Dick Duff and Mike Rodden (St. Patricks) each had the role for a total of two games.
- Pat Burns won the most Jack Adams Awards. He had three in total, one of them with the Maple Leafs for his efforts in the 1992-93 season.
- There have only been two people to ever coach a Memorial Cup championship team the same year they played in the NHL. They are Hap Day and Billy Reay. Day coached the OHA Toronto West End Nationals who won the cup in 1936. He was also playing as a defenceman with the Leafs at the time.