Toronto Maple Leafs Tickets

The Toronto Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team made its debut in the NHL on December 19, 1917 as the Toronto Arenas as a mere 700 tickets were sold to curious spectators. The Arenas were named after Mutual Street Arena who owned the team. Toronto went on to establish themselves as a powerhouse when they won the Stanley Cup in that same year when they defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey League.

Hockey games from the Mutual Street Arena were broadcast in 1923 by a reporter for a local newspaper named Foster Hewitt. "He shoots, he scores!" became the phrase most enduring to the game and a ticket into the history books.

Maple Leaf Tickets History

In 1927 Conn Smythe purchased the St. Pats for $160,000 and immediately renamed the team and the words on their tickets to the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was Smythe's goal to establish a powerhouse of a team to defeat his previous team in New York from which he had been fired. He also changed the team colors from green and white to the blue and white that still adorns the team generations later.

Smythe realized that the Mutual Street Arena would not be able to hold the crowds who could barely get their hands on a ticket because the team excelled far beyond excellence and were legions past popular. The radio broadcasts had helped to elevate awareness exceeding potential capacity.

Smythe put together plans for Maple Leaf Gardens and traded Garden's stock to the trades. As a result, the new facility was build in less than six months. The Maple Leafs beat the New York Rangers to bring home the Stanley Cup in 1931-32, during their first year in the Gardens, thus realizing the vendetta of a dream promised by Smythe.

The Maple Leafs have delivered countless historical moments that have always proven to be a ticket to excitement and a permanent place in the annals of the NHL. In 1933, a special benefit game was played at the Gardens which evolved into the modern day All Star Game.

In the same year, the Maple Leafs and historical rivals the Red Wings played the longest playoff game that was ever played in the building; with over 5 overtime periods and only one goal scored throughout the entirety of the game. In the mid-1940's Babe Pratt was expelled from hockey for betting on various hockey games. He never bet on the games he played in, but created waves throughout the hockey community. He was later reinstated by quickly traded away from the Leafs. In 1947, the Leafs regained the Stanley Cup after Ted Kennedy's winning goal to rise above the Montreal Canadiens. In 1948, Conn Smythe traded 5 players to land Max Bentley from the Chicago Black Hawks and, as a result, Toronto landed back to back Stanley Cups followed by five more cups in eight years.

The rich cultural legacy that the Maple Leafs established in the first half of the twentieth century continues to excel far beyond any reasonable expectations.

The Toronto Arenas withdrew from the league, almost ending hockey in Toronto, in February 1919, but returned for the 1919-20 season playing as the Toronto St. Patricks. 1922 saw the St. Pats defeat the Vancouver Millionaires and, to the amazement of the countless fans that had either bought tickets or merely heard about the game, captured the second Stanley Cup of what was destined to be a legendary beginning to an unfathomable legacy. The first penalty shot in Playoff history was seen in the series in which Babe Dye was awarded the shot after being tripped by Art Duncan.