Courtesy of Toronto (Daily) Star articles accessed through the wonderful Toronto Public Library website, below is a snipping/clipping from November 21, 1970. It contains much valuable statistical and trending data for those Leafs fans who don't quite have a handle on their babe's history. Even a quick observation will note something not so cryptic, but realistic....
... and blowed up real good....
Toronto was at the very bottom of the NHL's then Eastern Division, and held that standing, holding, nurturing, caressing, just 8 points after 17 games played. (My then beloved Habs were at the top of the division with 23 points. As some readers here might know, the Montreal Canadiens would go on to win the Stanley Cup that season.)
Yes, my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. (Those folk who know me will know.)
In my best William Dozier voice....
"Oh, my. It doesn't look good for our special team!
Are they really... on ice?
Are all their plans and dreams to get... frozen?
For he answer to these and other ice-cold questions, stay tuned!
Same Leafs-time! Same Leafs-channel!
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Postscript: Gone are the days when I'd spend uncounted hours cranking through hundreds of linear feet of microfilm in the name of research, hanging over the viewing machine in nausea. To the passerby on the ground floor's west-facing wall, I must have bore a resemblance to Sylvester the Cat when he stood slumping, with arms thrown over a ship's upper deck railing, looking mighty green. Through the large library windows I could see that Yonge Street tea shop. After reaching my breaking point, I would stop, cross the street, and take in a cup of tea. The world had stopped moving. My stomach, and sweat glands, took a break. (Go Leafs!)
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