Hockey History Hub

On April 4, 1982, at the Philadelphia Spectrum, NHL fans witnessed a bittersweet and historic moment: Darryl Sittler, once the heart and so...

On February 21, 1960, Bobby Hull delivered one of the most memorable offensive performances of his career at Chicago Stadium, scoring four ...

Most hockey fans remember Bill Barilko for his legendary overtime goal that won the Toronto Maple Leafs the 1951 Stanley Cup. Immortalized ...

Mike Walton took three penalty shots over his NHL career, scoring on one. Two of those penalty shots occurred a day apart. The first, agai...

Darryl Sittler was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round of the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft, eighth overall. The junior star wit...

Bernie Parent wasn't with the Toronto Maple Leafs long. He came to Toronto via a January 31, 1971 trade with the Philadelphia Flyers t...

 A quick look at a young Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs. In this 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee 188 hockey card, Sittler was struggling to fi...

On January 12, 1930, the legendary Tim Horton was born in Cochrane, Ontario.  Tim Horton 1963-64 Birthday Game It's hard to find an actu...

The Stanley Cup is the holy grail of hockey. Lord Stanley’s Mug is handed to the National Hockey League’s playoff champion each season. ...

As I write this, I'm fighting with some sort of glitch that is freezing up the upload for the final of six videos featuring vintage ho...

The 1990 NHL Entry Draft is best known for an outstanding crop of first round skaters, including Owen Nolan, Mike Ricci and Jaromir Jagr...

Throughout the long and storied National Hockey League history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, five players have appeared in over 1,000 regu...

The hockey gods looked down with irony on the National Hockey League in 1960-61. Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard became the first 50 goal scorer ...

The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the oldest franchises in the National Hockey League and were once one of the most successful. The ind...

The Jack Adams was first awarded to the NHL's top head coach for the 1973-74 season. Fred Shero was the first recipient and Pat Burns...

  1950-51 was quite an important year in the National Hockey League. Many say that that season marked the NHL’s entry into the modern era...

Darryl Sittler is one of the greatest legends in the history of the National Hockey League’s Toronto Maple Leafs. Sittler is a Hockey Ha...

For nearly seventy years, Maple Leaf Gardens was the home of the National Hockey League’s Toronto Maple Leafs. The arena, known in short...

Al Arbour played 626 games in the National Hockey League from 1953-54 to 1970-71. Yet it was his accomplishments as a head coach with th...