Game 602
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 4
Monday, November 19, 1984
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
It was one for the workmen.
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ 6-4 win over the Montréal Canadiens was no masterpiece, but from the reaction of the players who ended a 10-game winless streak, one might have expected to see the Stanley Cup wheeled onto the Forum ice.
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Game 601
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 1
Saturday, March 17, 1984
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Bruce Dowie didn’t want last night’s National Hockey League game here to end.
That made him a majority of one.
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Game 600
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 4
Wednesday, January 11, 1984
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Early in last night’s game, it appeared that the Toronto Maple Leafs would get their first victory in five tries.
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Game 599
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Saturday, October 22, 1983
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs went into last night’s third period with a 2-1 lead against the Montréal Canadiens at the Gardens.
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Preseason Game 26
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Saturday, October 1, 1983
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Only seconds into the Toronto Maple Leafs’ final exhibition game on Saturday, defenceman Bob Gainey – yes, he’s playing defence for the Montréal Canadiens – picked up the puck in his zone, immediately passed it to Toronto winger Terry Martin, and the Leafs had a 1-0 lead in a game they would eventually lose 5-3.
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Preseason Game 25
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, September 28, 1983
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
With two games left in the preseason, centre Bill Derlago figures he still has a chance to prove he belongs on the Toronto Maple Leafs’ big line.
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Game 598
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 3
Tuesday, March 8, 1983
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Forget, for a moment, all the quibbling about the mistakes or good luck that gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-3 tie with the Montréal Canadiens last night.
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Game 597
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 5
Wednesday, December 29, 1982
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
It was as though Dan Daoust and the Toronto Maple Leafs had somehow turned back the clock more than a decade last night at Maple Leaf Gardens.
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Game 596
Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 4
Tuesday, December 28, 1982
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Eventually, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ winless road string has to come to an end.
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Preseason Game 24
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, September 22, 1982
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The crowd was dwindling down to a precious few by the time the Toronto Maple Leafs finished disgracing themselves against the Montréal Canadiens last night.
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Preseason Game 23
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Sunday, September 19, 1982
Ottawa Civic Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
Ryan Walter’s ribs were aching, but his smile was wide, his optimism high.
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Preseason Game 22
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4
Saturday, September 18, 1982
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
There’s an innovation at Maple Leaf Gardens this year other than the flock of kids trying for jobs with the Maple Leafs for the 1982-83 National Hockey League season.
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Game 595
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 1
Saturday, March 6, 1982
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Rookie goaltender Bob Parent may be just the first of a few farmhands to play for the Maple Leafs in their remaining 11 games of a disastrous National Hockey League schedule.
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Game 594
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 3
Saturday, February 27, 1982
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
After a season of floating through the schedule, the Toronto Maple Leafs have suddenly come to life.
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Game 593
Canadiens 6, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, December 12, 1981
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
One of the most remarkable things about Mike Nykoluk’s tenure as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs is that he never made an excuse for one of his team’s dreadful performances.
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Preseason Game 21
Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 1
Saturday, October 3, 1981
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
There is, according to Johnny Bower, a little of the late Terry Sawchuk in Vincent Tremblay.
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Preseason Game 20
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 3
Wednesday, September 23, 1981
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Stewart Gavin couldn’t have wiped the smile off his face if he had tried.
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Game 592
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Saturday, February 28, 1981
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Perhaps a good elementary school teacher would know what to do with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
A good teacher, after all, knows how to cope with short attention spans.
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Game 591
Maple Leafs 6, Canadiens 5
Saturday, January 17, 1981
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The game was far from a classic. But it seems that whenever the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montréal Canadiens meet, the entertainment is high quality.
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Game 590
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 2
Thursday, December 11, 1980
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Larry Robinson’s shoulder slipped back into place and the Toronto Maple Leafs slipped into their usual pattern of too many penalties and truancy on defence as the Montréal Canadiens beat the Leafs 5-2 in a National Hockey League game at the Forum last night.
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Game 589
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 4
Wednesday, November 19, 1980
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Maple Leafs could use a little help from their fans, says Leaf coach Joe Crozier, who blamed the Maple Leaf Gardens crowd, the refereeing and a “brutal” effort by his players for last night’s 5-4 National Hockey League loss to the Montréal Canadiens.
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Preseason Game 19
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 1
Wednesday, September 24, 1980
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Toronto Maple Leafs got a long look at the Nova Scotia Voyageurs and a new rule aimed at preventing multiplayer brawls last night.
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Preseason Game 18
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 3
Saturday, September 20, 1980
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
“What really pleased me was the movement in our back end,” said Toronto Maple Leafs coach Joe Crozier.
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Game 588
Canadiens 7, Maple Leafs 2
Saturday, January 19, 1980
Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Earlier this season, a long road trip was proclaimed the best thing to remedy the ills of the floundering Toronto Maple Leafs.
Their current road trip of seven games has had anything but a good effect.
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Game 587
Canadiens 5, Maple Leafs 3
Wednesday, January 9, 1980
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Two periods of shutout hockey were not enough to erase one clumsy first period as the Toronto Maple Leafs fell 5-3 to the Stanley Cup champion Montréal Canadiens last night at Maple Leaf Gardens.
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Two Solitudes 