Impossible Level Answers
1. How many hat tricks did Darryl Sittler have?
A: d) 18
Darryl Sittler actually leads the franchise with the most career hat tricks. He had 18.
2. Which former Toronto Maple Leafs coach owns the league record for leading his teams to the most Stanley Cup Finals?
A: b) Dick Irvin
Dick Irvin led his teams to a total of 16 Stanley Cup finals. He reached that total by combining his coaching record from the Chicago Blackhawks (1), Maple Leafs (7), and Montreal Canadiens (8). Irvin won one cup with the Leafs and three more with the Habs.
3. Who did the Toronto Maple Leafs Draft in the third round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft?
A: b) Dale Mitchell
All the players listed were drafted in 2007. Two of them went in the third round. Yannick Weber went 73rd overall. One slot later, Toronto took Dale Mitchell. Though he looked like a promising prospect, once recording 43 goals and 37 assists in a season for the Oshawa Generals, Mitchell never played a single NHL game.
Carl Gunnarsson was the Leafs best pick in the draft. They got him in the seventh round and he spent five seasons playing for the team. Though he didn’t play as many games for the Leafs, Matt Frattin did manage to get into action over multiple seasons for the team. Toronto took him in the fourth round. They didn’t have a pick in either the first or second rounds.
4. How many goals did the franchise leader Mats Sundin score with the Maple Leafs?
A: c) 420
Sundin scored a total of 564 goals in his career. He had 420 of them with the Maple Leafs. He also had 135 in the four years he played for the Nordiques and finished his career adding nine goals in his only season with the Canucks.
5. Which Toronto Maple Leafs player led the league in single-season penalty minutes most often?
A: a) Red Horner
Tiger Williams is the NHL leader in penalty minutes. He accumulated 3971 in his career, 1670 in his six years with the Maple Leafs. He was the single-season pims leader thrice, twice with the Leafs and the third time as a Vancouver Canuck.
Second on the all-time list is Dale Hunter (3565) who never played with Toronto. He also never led the season in penalty minutes. Tie Domi did lead the league in this category once, in the 1993-94 season. Domi ranks third all-time with 3515 penalty minutes.
Gary Roberts is 19th all-time in total penalty minutes. He never led the league when he played. This was Red Horner‘s specialty. He was the leader in seven seasons. He also finished eight minutes behind Art Coulter, which would have given Horner eight straight campaigns as the league’s top offender.
6. The fastest goals in Maple Leafs history were scored just seven seconds into the game. Which two players recorded those goals?
A: a) Mitchell Marner and Charlie Conacher
Mitch Marner scored his seven-second marker on Jan. 3, 2019 against the Minnesota Wild. It was a game that the Leafs would go on to lose. Charlie Conacher potted his quick goal against the Bruins on Feb. 6, 1932. The Leafs blanked Boston that game 6-0 and Conacher scored again in the second period of that game.
7. Dave Andreychuk got married in 1991, a year before joining the Leafs. What’s his wife’s name?
a) Sue
Dave Andreychuk married his wife Sue while still playing with the Sabres. He and Sue have three daughters, Taylor, Caci and Brooke. They used to live in in East Amherst, New York but since Andreychuk took a job with the Tampa Bay Lightning’s front office the family relocated to Florida.
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