The Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club: Official Centennial by Kevin Shea,Jason Wilson,Brendan Shanahan
By Kevin Shea,Jason Wilson,Brendan Shanahan
The Toronto Maple Leafs are the most storied franchises in all of game and with no query -- the main famous crew in all of hockey. via this trip of 100 years of Maple Leaf hockey, lovers will learn of ups and downs, triumphs and tears, laughter and laments. This booklet tells the Leafs' whole background and introduces fanatics to coaches, in addition to such legends as: Apps and Armstrong, Kennedy and Keon, Broda and Bower, Salming and Sundin, but in addition avid gamers who wore the Blue and White and left way more modest legacies. It takes fanatics to Toronto's first video game, the development of Maple Leaf Gardens and next stream to the Air Canada Centre. It celebrates Toronto's Stanley Cups and corridor of repute avid gamers and demonstrates that via every one intriguing season, the Toronto Maple Leafs have without end remained our staff and loved the particularly unswerving help of a state of lovers.
released in entire partnership with the Toronto Maple Leafs and scheduled to unencumber because the Leafs input their a centesimal season, this authentic centennial booklet contains contributions from some of the largest names in Leaf heritage. writer Kevin Shea received exceptional entry to gamers -- previous and current -- in addition to group executives to supply this publication the main compelling, proficient, and actual portrayal of Toronto's ancient hockey crew and their very important position in either the realm of hockey and the tradition of Canada. mixed with terrific archival photos and a very impressive layout, this is often the definitive and should have ebook for fanatics of the Blue and White.
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