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Top 5 Hall of Famers You Forget Played for the Toronto Maple Leafs

ByStephen Nixon|
TORONTO - MARCH 27: Ron Francis #10 of the Toronto Maple Leafs puts a shot past Martin Prusek #31 of the Ottawa Senators to tie the score at 1-1 at Air Canada Centre March 27, 2004 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
TORONTO - MARCH 27: Ron Francis #10 of the Toronto Maple Leafs puts a shot past Martin Prusek #31 of the Ottawa Senators to tie the score at 1-1 at Air Canada Centre March 27, 2004 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
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TORONTO – APRIL 5: Phil Housley #96 of the Toronto Maple Leafs. (Photo by Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI)
TORONTO – APRIL 5: Phil Housley #96 of the Toronto Maple Leafs. (Photo by Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI)

#1. Phil Housley

It may be easy to forget that Phil Housley once played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

If you blinked during the 2002-03 season, you probably missed Housley as he only played one career regular season game in Toronto.

Despite only participating in one regular season game and three playoff games in Toronto, he played 1495 career games and had a magnificent career. Housley put up numbers that forwards would be jealous of and is still the highest scoring American-born defenseman in NHL history with 1232 career points.

Although it took much longer than it should have, Housley was finally inducted into the Hockey Hall-of-Fame in 2015.

I wonder if he talked about that one game he played with the Leafs during his induction speech….

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