Toronto hockey

I visited Punch Imlach’s grave this afternoon during a walk through Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, and I couldn’t help wondering what he’d say—and do—after this awful start to the Maple Leafs season. Imlach was a complicated figure: a harsh taskmaster who could be verbally abusive and abrasive, yet also capable of well-timed praise and genuine positive […]

In 1927 Charles Querrie sold his majority stake of the St. Pat’s to Conn Smythe who had purchased the team and changed the name to the Toronto Maple Leafs.   *photo of grave taken at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto by Phil Crawford