9. Former Leafs owner was also the designer of the original Maple Leaf logo.
Conn Smythe played a vitally important role for the Maple Leafs. He bought the club while it was named the St. Pats and re-branded it the Toronto Maple Leafs. Smythe served as the team’s owner and its coach. He was also the organization’s best general manager. What may shock Leafs fans is that Smythe was also the original designer of the team logo.
Smythe was undoubtedly an impressive man. It’s why he’s been inducted into three different Hall of Fames. He joined the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder in 1958, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1977, and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. He also happens to have supervised the construction of the Hockey Hall of Fame when it was first built in 1961.
10. The Maple Leafs had a legal battle with Snoop Dogg.
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office both found themselves looking at filings by the Maple Leafs who were unhappy with a cannabis brand represented by rapper Snoop Dogg and its partner Canopy Growth Corp.
The brand name was ‘Leafs by Snoop’, which the Maple Leafs argued infringed on its marks. Both the name and the logo were similar to the Maple Leafs’. Toronto no longer needs to worry about brand as it now goes by LBS.
After their legal disagreement, Snoop may no longer wish to sport his Leafs jersey.