- One of the original six hockey teams in the NHL.
- Their first hockey club was referred to as the Arenas, but unofficially the team was known as the Blueshirts or the Torontos.
- To appeal to a then-largely Irish population in the city, the team became the Toronto St. Pats in the early 1920’s.
- The team name Toronto Maple Leafs was born in 1927.
- The Maple Leafs were named after the World War I fighting unit, the Maple Leaf Regiment.
- Won their first Stanley Cup at the end of their very first season, but they do not count that cup in their total since the hockey team was known under a different name.
- As the Toronto Maple Leafs, they have won the Cup eleven times.
- The Leafs are the most valuable team in the NHL (somewhere around $500 million), followed by the New York Rangers, and Montreal Canadiens.
- The Leafs sold out every game from 1946 through to when the Maple Leaf Gardens closed in 1999: over 50 years of sold-out crowds.
- For two seasons after Sundin left, there was no Captain (the current Captain is Dion Phaneuf).
- Mats Sundin remains the Leafs’ scoring leader. In almost 1,000 career games, he scored 420 goals, and had 567 assists.
- In 2008, there was a waiting list of approximately 2,500 names for season’s tickets and has grown to approximately 4,000 since then. If you were to get on the list today, it’s estimated you’d have a 20 year wait for your season’s tickets!