Toronto Maple Leafs All-Time Goal Scoring Leaders

The Toronto Maple Leafs all-time leading scoring is Mats Sundin.

Yesterday, we reviewed the Toronto Maple Leafs all-time scoring list, learning that Mitch Marner is already ranked 41st in team history, and that both he and Auston Matthews are likely to be in the top ten within the next three or four seasons.

With such a historic team, I found it surprising that such young players were already ranked so high. Then again, we are talking about the Leafs, a team that doesn’t even have a player with 1000 points.

In fact, 22 other teams have a higher scoring all-time scoring leader than the Leafs do. The Might Ducks of Anaheim, a team invented based on a movie that came out in the early 90s, a team that didn’t exist even when Leafs fans were already getting antsy about how long it’d been since their team won a Stanley Cup, has a higher all-time leading scorer.

So as depressing as that is, today we will look into goals.  Like points, Mats Sundin is the Toronto Maple Leafs all-time leader in goals (and undisputed best player to ever wear the uniform) with 420.  Sundin leads by a margin of 31 goals over Darryl Sittler.

Toronto Maple Leafs All-Time Goals Scoring List

The Leafs only have two players (Sundin and Clark) in their top ten who played in the last 30 years, in case you’re wondering how the franchise has been doing!

The full list, is here at quanthockey.com. 

The highest ranking active player is Phil Kessel, ranked 18th, who scored 181 goals in his time as a Leaf. Despite being one of my all-time personal favorite players, I have to say in retrospect I’d have rather had Dougie Hamilton.

My childhood favorite, Gary Leeman, is ranked just behind Kessel at #19.

Nazem Kadri is ranked 25th, and coming in just one position, and three goals lower is Auston Matthews who has an incredible 158 goals in 282 games.   He is on pace to surpass Mats Sundin as the Toronto Maple Leafs all-time goal scoring leader in 220 less games.

If you actually prorate Matthew’s scoring to cover the games he has missed in his career, he would currently be ahead of Kessel in about 140 less games.  So he is kind of good.

As for other active players, Marner, William Nylander and John Tavares should all move into the top 50 after the upcoming season, depending on its length.  Only one thing is clear: Auston Matthews is well on his way to surpassing Mats Sundin in goals, points, and being the best Toronto Maple Leafs player of all-time.