On This Day April 13th.

April 13: On this day in 1919, ex-Leaf goaltender Paul Bibeault was born in Montreal, Quebec. Bibeault came to Toronto on loan from the Montreal Canadiens as a wartime replacement and played 34 games with the Leafs in the second half of the 1943-44 season including the playoffs. Bibeault was in goal for the Leafs when the franchise suffered its worse playoff defeat in team history as they were clobbered 11-0 by the Canadiens.

April 13: On this day in 1940, the New York Rangers defeated the Leafs in overtime of Game 6 of the Finals to capture their 3rd ever Stanley Cup. Hall-of-Famer Bryan Hextall scored the Cup-winning goal. After winning the Cup in 1932, the Maple Leafs advanced to the Finals 6 more times in the 8 year span between 1933 and 1940, but lost each time.

April 13: On this day in 1965 in Game 6 of the Semi-Final series between the Leafs and the Canadiens, the Maple Leafs stunned the Habs by jumping out to a 2-0 lead on two shorthanded goals by Dave Keon and Red Kelly on the same Montreal penalty. In the end, Montreal's Claude Provost ended the series by scoring in overtime and collapsing Toronto's dream of winning their fourth straight Cup.

April 13: On this day in 1993, the Leafs played their last home game of the season and earned 2 points in a 2-1 overtime win on a goal by Peter Zezel. The victory came against future Leaf Curtis Joseph and the St. Louis Blues and gave the Leafs 99 points, a new team record and a 32 point turnaround from the previous season under new Head Coach Pat Burns.



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