What was wrong with the 1985 Toronto Maple Leafs? 37-year-old report shed light on struggling team

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  • @Banananymous
    @Banananymous 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    No Stanley cup in under 20 years… if only they knew …

    • @ckendall67
      @ckendall67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This clip could actually still apply to today's Leafs as well.
      ( Granted, the team on the ice now is much better than that dreadful '85 team, although they've accomplished about the same as those awful teams from the 80's just the same Lol )

    • @andrewwalsh6401
      @andrewwalsh6401 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ain’t that the truth

    • @alexandergillingham2592
      @alexandergillingham2592 ปีที่แล้ว

      They should smarten up

    • @MrUndersolo
      @MrUndersolo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That Jimmy Hoffa comment says it all.

    • @Alex90210
      @Alex90210 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @S_67F Leafs are always losers!

  • @Dan-nt2yb
    @Dan-nt2yb ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I worked at the Gardens as a security supervisor from 1993 until 1999. What memories.❤️

  • @mediumdoubledouble9012
    @mediumdoubledouble9012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I miss the gardens!

  • @bmoshareholderappleshareho855
    @bmoshareholderappleshareho855 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I remember in the eighties, there was this famous joke going around the city. The Leafs are getting a Chinese coach. His name is Win One Soon.

  • @matttilley8620
    @matttilley8620 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love this trip down memory lane. Great to see legends of sports media interviewed in this piece. And yeah, why was Dave Hodge fired?

    • @Tubewings
      @Tubewings ปีที่แล้ว

      Hodge left after he subtly complained on the air about the CBC refusing to show the end of a hockey game between the Flyers and Canadiens (except for viewers in Quebec) and flipping his pen at the end.

    • @timburr4453
      @timburr4453 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Tubewings Unreal that CBC would do that and fire him for reacting...well the way we all did. I understand maybe he should've kept his emotions in check but that decision just showed CBC did not have its finget on the pulse of the nation

    • @stevejohnson1577
      @stevejohnson1577 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its the cbc… typical

    • @19ninetynine
      @19ninetynine 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ron Mcloser, I mean Mclean

    • @mckessa17
      @mckessa17 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@19ninetynineRon Mcsweazal

  • @orbyfan
    @orbyfan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The January 5, 1985 national Hockey Night in Canada telecast of the Canucks' 4-1 win at Maple Leaf Gardens is the worst game I've ever seen, if not the worst ever played. I wish someone would dig it out of the vaults and post it; Dave Hodge's closing "Thanks for watching" was a classic commentary on the game.

  • @jimlangdon1947
    @jimlangdon1947 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Harold Ballard’s cultural impact has lasted into 2023!

    • @MrUndersolo
      @MrUndersolo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some demons cannot be exorcised!

    • @b-zoneonroku2020
      @b-zoneonroku2020 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ALL of the Canadian teams are run the same way without Harold's sense of humor. They don't NEED to win to draw unlike the superior American teams.

  • @paulwhite8556
    @paulwhite8556 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And to think this is only 18 years after their last cup win in 1967.. its still the last time a cup was won in Leaf land.

    • @sweetmapleleafs
      @sweetmapleleafs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But it's not like the Cup ever left Toronto. All you have to do is walk up to the HHOF ticket office & buy a ticket. Get in and boom! You have the cup & the original cup itself. So what incentive do the Leafs have? 0

    • @stevelowry794
      @stevelowry794 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's actually worse than that, not only no cup win, but since 1967 they haven't even played in a finals to have a chance at it. ugh....

  • @mike196212
    @mike196212 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm a 61 year old Leafs' fan who knows the only thing we have left is hope.

    • @Devil6CR
      @Devil6CR ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Abandon all hope as a leafs fan.

    • @mike196212
      @mike196212 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Devil6CR Yup. Watched them last night at a local bar. Two deserved elbowing penalties opened the flood gates for the Lightning to regain control. Lack of discipline. Disputed goal meant nothing. Listened to a 40 something lady talk about the ''first round curse.'' She's young. She has a lot of pain to come. It's pretty bad when you're now only hoping to escape round one. When the late great Pat Quinn was running the show this was never a worry(two final four appearances;only once not escaping round one). Those were the last great days for the Leafs. I don't think they're going to escape round one---again.

    • @VictiniMujigae
      @VictiniMujigae ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait a second… You were barely around when the Maple Leafs won their most recent Stanley Cup.

    • @mike196212
      @mike196212 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VictiniMujigae True enough. An older cousin used to tell me about watching that ''last game.'' In the 90s he told me one day he suddenly didn't remember it so well anymore. Yeah,I was only five when it happened. To me,it never really did. lol.

    • @brentbaker4489
      @brentbaker4489 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah " No Hope "

  • @cws480
    @cws480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It’s often no fun being a Leafs fan. I’m ready for more disappointments these playoffs.

    • @crow_2k11beatsbydre8
      @crow_2k11beatsbydre8 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have your kleenex box in hand watching this misery.....1967.

    • @ckendall67
      @ckendall67 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here; I mean, they could go on a run.....but I'm not doing jumping jacks expecting it to happen now either.
      ( I got Tampa winning that series anyway. I'll trust those guys to win in the playoffs any day )

    • @cws480
      @cws480 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ckendall67 I’m also picking Tampa to win in 7. They’ve got the better goalie and often that’s all it takes. Look at last year. Campbell wasn’t bad against Montreal, but Price was the difference.

    • @awesomematthews1238
      @awesomematthews1238 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@crow_2k11beatsbydre8 how did you find this video? Wow. Psychopath

  • @bobbykiriakidis9753
    @bobbykiriakidis9753 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The video quality on this is amazing

  • @VictiniMujigae
    @VictiniMujigae ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If only they knew in 1985 that the drought would continue for another 39 plus years after… It’s such a shame that what turned from a 20 year drought into a 50 plus year drought…

  • @charlesmartel3995
    @charlesmartel3995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Harold Ballard is what is wrong with the Leafs.

    • @t-max7261
      @t-max7261 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ballard set this franchise back to the Stone Age

  • @clark85
    @clark85 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    2 words: Harold Ballard

    • @b-zoneonroku2020
      @b-zoneonroku2020 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      the Ontario Teachers' Union ran the team far worse than Ballard ever was.

  • @ckendall67
    @ckendall67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The more things change......

  • @goldeneve
    @goldeneve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ballard WHA and the league expansions and the players in and outside of Toronto

  • @GdF420
    @GdF420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "Maple Leafs Gardens in Toronto often called the Mecca of Hockey and the most famous Hockey building in the world"
    Are you freaking kidding me ??!!!!
    To say that without laughing, even in 1985, is remarkable

    • @mathewlee5712
      @mathewlee5712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Forum de Montréal was THE mecca.

    • @awesomematthews1238
      @awesomematthews1238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Huh? Toronto the most populated hockey city. Obviously the most fans live in the GTA

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mathewlee5712 Tell me, where is the Hockey Hall of Fame? Oh yeah, it's in Toronto

    • @bmoshareholderappleshareho855
      @bmoshareholderappleshareho855 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Toronto and Montreal are like the churches of hockey.

  • @mrceleb2006
    @mrceleb2006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Laffs had a 20W-52L-8T season back in 1984-1985...worst record in franchise history!

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, that's still better than the inaugural Ottawa Senator's season where they went 10W-70L

    • @lordhighexecutioner
      @lordhighexecutioner 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @StuMarston They won a playoff round that year (this is 1985-86, this one... they started 1-12! )

    • @scarboroughcyclist
      @scarboroughcyclist 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lordhighexecutioner And they took the St. Louis Blues to 7 games! The 1985-86 Toronto Maple Leafs were one win away from playing the Calgary Flames in the Campbell Conference Final. Not bad for a team that finished the season with a 25-48-7 record and only 57 points.
      Making the playoffs was so much easier in those days, and the Norris Division was pretty lousy. Still, this Leafs team could somehow perform alright in the clutch.

    • @mckessa17
      @mckessa17 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I believe the Leafs drafted Wendel Clark in 85, things started to improve a bit.

    • @mrceleb2006
      @mrceleb2006 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mckessa17 Yeah, right! It wasn't until the 1992-1993 season that they finally got a winning record, only to fall in game 7 of the Campbell Conference Finals to none other than Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings!

  • @canuck_gamer3359
    @canuck_gamer3359 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The funny part to me is that we all remember the Leafs of that era as being a laughing stock, who rarely had any business even being in the playoffs. But when you actually look closely, there was a time there when the Leafs had a really good core of players to build around, and in fact they had a core of good, young forwards that were as good as any in the league, except Edmonton. I'm speaking of when they had Leeman, Clark, Courtnall, Viave and a couple others plus Damphousse on the way. How did they manage to screw that up so badly?

    • @t-max7261
      @t-max7261 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No defencemen (other than Salming and to a lesser extent, Iafrate) and no goaltending (save flashes of brilliance from Wregget and Bester at times) will sink any collection of forwards on any given night. Here we are almost 40 years later with the exact same problem!

  • @sdeepj
    @sdeepj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:35 It’s going to get even sadder 😂

  • @canadianfortrump4057
    @canadianfortrump4057 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always liked Dan Maloney. I thought he was hard working and knowledgeable but didn't have enough talented and experienced players to work with. At the end of the 1985 season the Leafs finished with their worst record in franchise history. A reporter asked Maloney the foolish question of how it felt after coaching the Leafs to their worst season ever. Maloney's answer was classic. He replied, 'go get hit by a car and tell me how you feel'.

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wrote something today ✍ half-way through ...to write, can be exhausting, on many levels (spiritual/mental/physical) when you go deep, it's tiring 😴

  • @stevenhickey326
    @stevenhickey326 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And nearly 40 years later......

  • @42yearoldboy5
    @42yearoldboy5 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    39 years later and we’re still asking😳🤦🏻

  • @b-zoneonroku2020
    @b-zoneonroku2020 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was the real reason why Hodge and McFarlane were fired. In Dave's case, the CBC spent the next year looking for an excuse to get rid of him.

  • @mckessa17
    @mckessa17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Leafs would become pretty good in 1992 1993, but it didn't last and no Cup.

  • @Devil6CR
    @Devil6CR ปีที่แล้ว

    2023 and it's still relevant.

  • @robertliddle4711
    @robertliddle4711 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nothing like mono audio

  • @david-t3j5f
    @david-t3j5f 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    they are still asking that question today

  • @kirkshairpiece6741
    @kirkshairpiece6741 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video shows the Leafs are timeless.

  • @bb-gc2tx
    @bb-gc2tx ปีที่แล้ว +1

    all the cups leafs won were basically mens beer league tourneys lol

  • @wildbillwilmoth98
    @wildbillwilmoth98 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well I think the shame has taken over for illusions of grandeur and ego. I wish the Argos were in the NFL and that Toronto got an NBA team sooner because maybe they would have a championship sooner in the city.

  • @lordhighexecutioner
    @lordhighexecutioner 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They won a playoff round that year!

    • @mjwatts1983
      @mjwatts1983 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1984-85: 20-52-8, 48pts, 14pts behind MN for 4th in Norris
      1985-86: 25-48-7, 57pts. 3rd worst in the Conference but made the playoffs. NJ had 59pts & PIT 76pts but missed out (blame the playoff format…). Leafs swept the Blackhaws (????) but lost in 7 to the Blues

  • @philojudaeusofalexandria9556
    @philojudaeusofalexandria9556 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another miserable G7 OT loss to the Bruins. 😭😭😭... I'm talking about the 2024 version of the failure.

  • @howardcraigiv518
    @howardcraigiv518 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This didn’t age well. Half those men would be rolling in their Graves if they could see some how that the Leafs still haven’t won a cup. That drought still continues to this day

  • @awesomematthews1238
    @awesomematthews1238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Maple Leaf Gardens is now Loblaws.
    This was the year they drafted Clark.
    20 years and the fans are freaking? Lol. Try 55

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a Loblaws on the bottom, and then a University Hockey Rink on the top for Toronto Metropolitan University

  • @trickolas78
    @trickolas78 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So much negative energy from the media. No wonder why the team was so bad. Harold Ballard should have kicked the media out of MLG for their attitudes.

  • @FischerFan
    @FischerFan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What was wrong with the 1985 Maple Leafs? Well, not quite everything. They tanked to draft Wendell Clark.

  • @bonnyharley5905
    @bonnyharley5905 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW

  • @leafyutube
    @leafyutube 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This helped the Leafs get Wendel Clark.

    • @mjwatts1983
      @mjwatts1983 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The eternal catnip!

  • @Marshal_Dunnik
    @Marshal_Dunnik 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Leafs would go on to a 20-52 season :/

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a Habs fan, I must remind all the Leafs fans out there: you have not learned a damn thing!

    • @lzeb4730
      @lzeb4730 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean?

    • @awesomematthews1238
      @awesomematthews1238 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you enjoying your playoff run this year?

    • @MrUndersolo
      @MrUndersolo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@awesomematthews1238 Are you? 🙃

    • @MrUndersolo
      @MrUndersolo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lzeb4730 Look up a TH-camr called "Urinating Tree" & his history of the Leafs. May explain things. 🤔

    • @lzeb4730
      @lzeb4730 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrUndersolo I'm very familiar with him. With that being said, this year's results are not the same as years past.

  • @Classicrocker6119
    @Classicrocker6119 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could we see the Stanley Cup drought extend to 56 years in 2023? Sorry Leaf’s fan….

  • @palette_1563
    @palette_1563 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well if the Red Sox and Cubs waited over a century then I suppose there is always hope, lol

  • @robdemanager8398
    @robdemanager8398 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is this a 1985 look at 'what's wrong with the Maple Leafs'.... or a 1985 look at 'what's wrong with western civilization'?

  • @DNSKansas
    @DNSKansas 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm sorry, but MLG was not the most famous hockey building in the history of the world. A close second, yes. But the most famous was in Montreal.

  • @timothybyers
    @timothybyers 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1985...........Here we are in 2024......same old.......same old. lol.

  • @scottalexander9853
    @scottalexander9853 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    56 years and counting! Absolute joke of a franchise! Leafs suck!

    • @bmoshareholderappleshareho855
      @bmoshareholderappleshareho855 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't forget, the last time the Leafs won the cup, there were only six teams in the league. Now, there are thirty-two teams in the league. That means way more competition. Also, in the late sixties, a team would need to only eight games in the playoffs to get the cup. Now, a team has to win sixteen games in the playoffs. So as you can see, it's even harder now.

    • @VictiniMujigae
      @VictiniMujigae 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There were 8 teams in the 1930s, but a lot of those teams don’t exist anymore.

  • @barrydimmock5771
    @barrydimmock5771 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No wonder Joe Bowen has white hair

  • @danp2306
    @danp2306 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's too late. Pro sports are scripted now. Everything is already planned out. But, in the 80s - 'real' hockey - the Maple Leafs were an inept franchise run by inept owners/ownership - Ballard and then MLSE - who only cared about profits and they knew winning didn't matter - because fan support was among the highest in sports - not just in the NHL. Now, they rely on the same fandom - and profit is still king - the tech duopoly in Canada owns the team now. But, from the 80s - imagine being a fan and not knowing (the future) - that the Laffs would be an inept franchise for 50+ years!

  • @JensSchraeder
    @JensSchraeder 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who’s watching this after game 7 against the Bruins in 2024. 😂

  • @sumotong1475
    @sumotong1475 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just looked up a lot of these sport reporters. Most are dead. Long careers,I'm sure happy lives, etc. No cup.

    • @ckendall67
      @ckendall67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably spent all those years covering the Leafs and never once saw them make the Cup Final or even win.

    • @markvando6075
      @markvando6075 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ckendall67 They were all 40 years old and up. They have seen them win the Cup.

    • @MrUndersolo
      @MrUndersolo ปีที่แล้ว

      I love the reporter who said that waiting for the Leafs to win a Cup is like 'leaving a porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa'!

  • @crow_2k11beatsbydre8
    @crow_2k11beatsbydre8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pro sports "WORST" franchise ever the laffs......1967.