After playing the 1979-80 season with the Canadian national team, Glenn Anderson signed with the Edmonton Oilers in the summer of 1980 and made an immediate impact. After scoring 53 points in a 58 game rookie season, he scored 105 points in his second season and emerged as a young star on his team along […]
Kevin Maguire
Kevin Maguire is a former NHL forward and referee. He played in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres, and Philadelphia Flyers from 1984-93. In his NHL career, Maguire appeared in 260 games. He scored 29 goals and added 30 assists while accumulating 782 penalty minutes. After his playing career, he […]
Petr Klima
Petr Klima of Czechoslovakia defected to the Detroit Red Wings in 1985 after the Red Wings had drafted him 86th overall in 1983. He was the first Czech born player to go directly to an American based team and the first Czech player after the Stastny brothers to defect to the NHL. Klima spent 4 […]
Steve Thomas
Steve Thomas signed as a free agent by Toronto in 1984, “Stumpy” alternated between the AHL and the Maple Leafs for a season before moving up for good and scoring 57 points in 65 games. The following year, he scored 35 goals before being traded to Chicago. Thomas struggled through two injury-plagued season before scoring […]
Nik Antropov
Following a standout junior career in the second-tier Russian Hockey Super League Nik Antropov was selected in the first round, 10th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. He managed to appear in over 70 games in only two of his nine seasons with the Leafs. However, his time in […]
John LeClair
John LeClair played for four seasons at the University of Vermont, leading the team in goals, points and penalty minutes in his senior season in ‘90/’91 After his last game in the college ranks he was immediately called up to the Montreal Canadiens, the team that had drafted him 33rd overall in the 1987 NHL […]
