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How the Current Maple Leafs Stack Up Against the 1993 Leafs

By Andrew Kogut

TORONTO - JANUARY 31: Toronto Maple Leafs players stand on the ice before the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Air Canada Centre on January 31, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They wore the #93 jersey of Doug Gilmour, whose jersey was raised to the rafters in a ceremony before the game. (Photo by Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
TORONTO - JANUARY 31: Toronto Maple Leafs players stand on the ice before the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Air Canada Centre on January 31, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They wore the #93 jersey of Doug Gilmour, whose jersey was raised to the rafters in a ceremony before the game. (Photo by Dave Sandford/Getty Images) /
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TORONTO, ON – OCTOBER 20: Doug Gilmour #93 of the Toronto Maple Leafs . (Photo by Graig Abel/Getty Images) /

1993 Toronto Maple Leafs

Centre

Doug Gilmour’s second season with the Maple Leafs was an unabashed success as he totaled 127 points in 83 games, picked up a Selke trophy and finished directly behind Mario Lemieux in Hart voting (all stats are from Hockey-Reference) .

John Cullen was picked up a couple of months into the season from Hartford for a 2nd rounder to give the Leafs another threat down the middle and he responded with 13 goals and 41 points in 47 games.

Peter Zezel and Dave McLlwain rounded out the top four (although the latter would eventually lose time to Mike Eastwood come playoff time), with Zezel, in particular, adding strong two-way value.

Left Wing

In February of 1993, and barely more than a year after he stole Gilmour out of Calgary, Leafs GM Cliff Fletcher pulled the trigger on another absolute robbery of a deal by picking up Dave Andreychuk, Darren Puppa and the number 12 overall pick, which turned out to be Kenny Jonsson, for a scuffling Grant Fuhr and a 5th round pick (nhltradetracker.com). Andreychuk would score 25 goals in the next 31 games and Fuhr would Toskala-his-way to an .886 save % in 64 total games across three seasons for Buffalo.

Fan favourite Wendel Clark (10 goals, 20 points in 21 playoff games), the highly-underrated Mike Krushelnyski (who could also play centre) and Bill Berg made up the rest of the left side.

Right Wing

Nikolai Borschevsky was drafted as a 27 year-old, scored 34 goals and 74 points in his rookie season in 1992-93 and was out of the NHL at 31, just after the 1995-96 season. Still, what a year he had in 93.

Glenn Anderson had a nice season as well, with 22 goals and 65 points in 76 games. Rob Pearson also had his best year in the NHL this year, scoring 23 goals, before falling off in the playoffs and eventually exiting the league by the time he was 26 (Okay, not all 12 overall picks can be a Kenny Jonsson). Mike Foligno, who had a very solid post-season, and Mark Osborne provided extra depth at the position.

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