On This Day November 19th.

November 19: On this day in 1929, Leaf defenseman and future Hall-of-Famer Hap Day scored 4 goals in a 10-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In one evening, Day recorded more than half of his entire goal output in the 1929-30 season when he scored 7 goals in 43 games. Pittsburgh defenseman John McKinnon also scored four goals in the same game. It has been the only time in NHL history when two defenseman scored four goals in the same game.

November 19: On this day in 1949, Bob Hassard played his first NHL game at center with the Leafs. It was the only game he played that season. In that era, the Leafs were deep at the center position and the lineup was tough to crack. Nevertheless, Hassard did play 109 games for Toronto through 1954, scoring 9 goals and adding 28 assists. He never played a playoff game for the Leafs but his name was included at the engraver's office after the Leafs won the Cup in 1951, even though Bob Hassard played just 12 regular season games that year.

November 19: On this day in 1966, in the final season of the "Original Six", the NHL regular season standings were as follows:

Chicago Toronto New York Boston Montreal Detroit

GP 12 14 15 13 12 14

W 8 4 4 5 5 4

L 2 3 6 5 6 8

T 2 7 5 3 1 2

GF 48 34 43 36 26 43

GA 27 36 43 41 28 49

Pts 18 15 13 13 11 10

November 19: On this day in 1967, Hall-of-Fame Leaf defenseman Tim Horton played in his 1000th game as a Toronto Maple Leaf. Horton was part of a Leaf defensive nucleus that propelled them to four Stanley Cups between 1962 and 1967. After playing 1185 games as a Leaf, Horton went on to play 261 more regular season games with the Rangers, Penguins and Sabres.

November 19: On this day in 1971, former leaf defenseman Dmitry Yushkevich was born in Cherepovets, U.S.S.R. Yushkevich played 506 games over 7 seasons as a Leaf after a trade with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1995 brought him to Toronto. At his peak and mostly under Head Coach Pat Quinn, Yushkevich was briefly considered to be one of the premier defensemen in the NHL. He was one of three Leafs, along with Mats Sundin and Curtis Joseph to represent the Leafs at the NHL All-Star game in 2000. He was traded to the Florida Panthers in the summer of 2002.

November 19: On this day in 2010, Pat Burns, one of the most successful NHL coaches of the past 20 years, died Friday after a lengthy battle with cancer. Burns, 58, died while surrounded by his family at La Maison Aube-Lumière in Sherbrooke, Que. due to colon cancer which eventually spread to his lungs. During his 14-year NHL coaching career, Burns posted a 501-353-151-14 record in 1,019 games behind the bench of the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils. Burns won the Stanley Cup with the Devils in 2003, and is the only person in league history to win three Jack Adams Trophies, awarded to the NHL's coach of the year.

Pat Burns in his own words

"To listen to the national anthem being sung at the Montreal Forum and look up and see all those Stanley Cup banners up there and saying, 'What am I doing here?'" — on his first game as coach of the Montreal Canadiens.

"It was a great time … just some great people.… Got to the final, Calgary decided they weren't going to lose another one like they did in '86 [to Montreal]." — on Montreal losing the 1989 Stanley Cup final to the Flames.

"I remember being on the ice after the game, and I remember Ron MacLean coming up to me with the microphone, and I didn't know what to say. I was baffled for words." — on winning the 2003 Stanley Cup with the New Jersey Devils.

"I tell my friends and family if you feel something, go to the doctor, get diagnosed, get something checked out." — on the importance of personal health.

"I don't want anybody feeling sorry for me. I've had a great life, I've had an enjoyable life, I've had some fun. I've been lucky to be part of one of the greatest sports around [and] the National Hockey League." — on retiring from coaching after being diagnosed with cancer.

On This Day January 19th.

January 19:  On this day in 1932, Charlie Conacher became the first Toronto player to score five goals in one game (versus New York’s Roy Worters) since the NHL's Toronto team became the Maple Leafs in 1927. The Leafs trounced the New York Americans 11-3. Altogether, Conacher had 14 three-or-more goal games in his NHL career as a Leaf. Only Darryl Sittler had more.

The Kid Line - Charlie Conacher, Joe Primeau, and Busher Jackson - Conacher Showcased

Baldy Harold Cotton

January 19:  On this day in 1933, Leafs Hap Day and Baldy Cotton set a team record when they each scored powerplay goals only 9 seconds apart. It was in an era when players served their entire penalty time regardless of whether or not the other team scored. The Leafs defeated the Bruins 3-0. Lorne Chabot picked up the shutout in goal for the Leafs. He is also the man credited with first discovering Bobby Orr when Number Four was just 13 years old, playing in a midget tournament for Parry Sound in a tournament in Unionville, Ontario in 1962 with players two and three years older than him.

Doug Baldwin

January 19:  On this day in 1946, Leaf defenseman Doug Baldwin made his NHL debut in a 3-1 victory over the New York Rangers. He played 15 games for Toronto, recording one assist, before being forced out of the lineup due to an emergency appendectomy. He was traded to Detroit the following September. Baldwin had short stints with Chicago (five games) and Detroit (four games) in the NHL over the next two years before beginning a successful minor-league career that lasted until 1959. He was twice a USHL all-star and later became player-coach of Toledo. Doug Baldwin passed away on July 10, 2007 at the age of 84.

1974/75 - 1992/93 Campbell and Prince of Wales Conference Logos

January 19:  On this day in 1991, the old Chicago Stadium hosted the 42nd NHL All-Star game. The Campbell Conference beat the Wales Conference 11-5. The lone Leaf at the game was Vincent Francois Damphousse and he

Vincent Francois Damphousse

ended up scoring four goals while being named the game's MVP. It was the fourth time in All-Star game history that a Leaf player captured the honor. On October 14, 2000, Damphousse recorded his 1,000th career NHL point and was one of the most consistent players on the Sharks for the better part of six seasons, before signing as a free-agent with the Colorado Avalanche in the summer of 2004. Following a lock out year in 2004-05, Damphousse announced his retirement from the game of hockey during the summer of 2005.

On This Day January 17th.

Babe Dye

January 17:  On this day in 1921, Hall-of-Famer Babe Dye began a 10 game scoring streak for the Toronto St. Pats and by doing so, set a team record that was tied by John Anderson of the Leafs in 1985, but never surpassed. The NHL record as at the end of the 2007-08 season for the longest consecutive goal-scoring streak is 16 games set by Punch Broadbent of the Ottawa Senators in 1921-22.

January 17:  On this day in 1928, Hap Day becomes first Leaf to score three goals in one game during 6-1 home triumph over New York.

January 17:  On this day in 1929, goaltender Jacques Plante was born in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec. Plante played 106 games

Jacques Plante

in three seasons between
1970 and 1973 for the Leafs after establishing his Hall-of-Fame career in Montreal where he won the Hart trophy once, the Vezina trophy six times and six Stanley Cups. With the Leafs, Plante had a record of 48-38-15 during the regular season, but no playoff victories. Plante's best season with the Leafs was his first in 1970-71 when he earned 4 shutouts and posted a league's best G.A.A. of 1.88. Plante was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1978. He died of stomach cancer in 1986 at the age of 57.