Toronto Maple Leafs

had planned to be back in BC by November. He had started his run. He ran 26 miles per day, for 143 days. He kept on running despite pouring rain, blisters and bleeding caused by his artificial leg. He had run 6 provinces. When he reached Toronto, the Maple Leafs captain Darryl Sittler presented Terry Fox with a National hockey league jersey. On September 1st 1980, outside of Thunder Bay Ontario he started to feel chest pains. He had thought he conquered cancer, although it started to spread to…

Many boys growing up playing hockey dreamed of becoming pro hockey players, playing in the National Hockey League (NHL) and eventually winning the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the NHL. Unlike them, girls who grew up playing hockey played to increase their chances on being able to go to college on a scholarship or maybe play in the Olympics, if they were lucky. Many of these girls saw their hockey careers end after they graduated college. A few of the lucky ones, who were skilled…

living in an unnatural habitat, which will primarily affect the tree crown. In this study, the Diameter at Breast Height (DBH), Crown Live Ratio (LCR), Crown Dieback (CDBK), Crown Transparency (CT), and Crown Chlorosis (CC) of trees at University of Toronto – St. George campus were assessed by field measurements and Google Street View images. The study shows that the average of DBH and LCR measurements of trees planted in constricted and non-constricted areas are considerably different, which…

As teams get eliminated from the playoffs, injuries that players were battling through inevitably come to light. Players shuffle off in a long line to their surgeons, physical therapists, and physicians to repair themselves before it all begins again in a couple months. This is also a time that certain hockey fans – you know the breed – come out of the woodwork to laud these battered soldiers’ toughness and grit. They come equipped with memes comparing their hardy hockey heroes to those pansies…

Jake the Snake: Jaques Plante “ How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo and yell at you that you suck!” The eldest of 11 children, Joseph Jacques Omer Plante, was born on January 17, 1929 on a farm near Notre-Dame-du-Mont Carmel, in Maurice Quebec. Plante began playing hockey at three ....he had no skates, he used a tennis ball instead of a puck and his stick was carved from a tree root by his father. His father also made his first…

In the 1870s and 1880s hockey in Canada was blooming. At first, hockey was just the winter version of lacrosse made to keep lacrosse players busy during the winter, but soon it was being played all over the country. After years of being in Canada it eventually moved to the United States. In the 1800s, hockey was a very different sport. There were no ice-making machines, so game were played outside where cold weather froze rivers and ponds that they could play on. Today, what would be called…

philosophies of rationalism, like the Chicago Blackhawks, has started a movement to abandon the traditional empirical approach. The rationalism approach has helped the Blackhawks win three league titles in the past six years. Hockey teams, such as the Toronto Maple Leafs, have recently invested millions of dollars in buying analytic companies to help gain a rationalism insight on players. Teams lacking in the rationalism approach are susceptible to over paying players, as well as…

was a slap shot past Gump Worsley. The crowd gave Orr a standing ovation. In that first season, he was challenged by the veterans, and he earned respect by beating Montreal's tough guy Ted Harris in his first NHL fight. On December 4, 1966, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Marcel Pronovost checked him into the boards, injuring his knees for the first time in his NHL career. He would miss nine games and the Bruins would lose six of them. The team finished with a 17–43–10 record, and ended the…

WORLD WAR II 6.2 I. Before the war A. Italy 1. Benito Mussolini was the leader of the fascist group in Italy. 2. Fascism is a revolt against democratic values. 3. This was the world’s first totalitarian dictatorship. B. Germany 1. The Treaty of Versailles (which was instituted following World War I) placed harsh conditions on Germany to stop them from rising up in war again. 2. Desperation and starvation caused many problems among the German people. 3. Adolf Hitler led the people with promises…

sportswomen in the world. However, it is very surprising that many people do not know their names much less sport and outstanding achievements. It is no surprise that if one was to ask every 1 out of 10 people to name the starting goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs it is likely they will know the exact answer. It is the mentality towards woman’s sports that is the root of the problem. Many people still believe that it is a male dominated society and reject the whole thing all together. Phrases…