The Leaf: A Legend, An Icon and Hope

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9 жыл бұрын

There are about 6000 kilometres between Sweden and Canada, and this season, 67 different Swedes appeared in at least 1 NHL game.
It’s clear the Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t the only team in the NHL to have welcomed Swedish players - but the impact that Swedes have had on this franchise in the last 40 years is undeniable.
There is a lifetime between where Borje Salming started his Maple Leafs career, and where William Nylander is starting his. Salming first made contact with the Leafs in a dressing room during a game in Sweden. Nylander first donned the Maple Leaf on a big stage in front of a national television audience as the 5th overall pick. In between them, there was a pretty good player named Mats, too.

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@ardstrum Жыл бұрын

RIP Borje. Even during some of the Leafs' darkest years, Salming made the games worth watching. He embodied everything that Leafs Nation hoped for from every player donning the jersey.

@emmacarlsater3377 Жыл бұрын

@AD-dt7nf 5 ай бұрын

Went down a rabbit hole tonight. On this night, where Nylander just got 2 goals on a Saturday night for a 3rd win in a row. By all reports, Willy is getting closer to signing an 8 year extension any day now, while putting together a career year, in his 9th season as a leaf. The foreshadowing in this video and the timing in which I found it is incredible. Go Sweden, Go Willy, Go Leafs.

@joaniemaloney 5 ай бұрын

I went back to watch this after willy signed his extension! what an incredible video to tie them all together. he really came up this whole way from the marlies, and may just retire as a leaf at the end of all of it. so proud! go leafs go :)

@bennylloyd-willner9667 Жыл бұрын

At the beginning, Forsberg, Sundin, and Salming. Wow, am I proud to be Swedish!

@gordpercival2710 Жыл бұрын

I can't stop the tears...he will always be the man

@cathiehoppins5801 8 жыл бұрын

Borje Salming.......the best Leaf player EVER!!!!!!! I miss those days!!!!

@buddha7178 Жыл бұрын

Salming once ripped some tape off his stick and tossed it over the boards. No one paid it any mind but I left my seat and ran down 5 rows to grab it.

@rhyssmith5565 Жыл бұрын

Rest in peace Salming

@yyzblader1947 Жыл бұрын

Been my hero since he came to Toronto in 73'. Rest in peace my gentle Giant. #21 - the greatest player I have ever seen.

@yyzblader1947 Жыл бұрын

If Borje had a carbon stick - there would be a few less NHLers walking on the face of this earth. It would have ripped flesh off their bodies. Like a 50 cal. Bullet hitting a human body. Not a pretty image to imagine. RIP my gentle giant. Tensile steel made into a hockey player with a heavy Swedish accent.

@Slimsoj Жыл бұрын

Miss you, Börje! Rest easy now. A legend through the ages. Will never fade.

@tomgeoghegan9173 4 жыл бұрын

Borje! The man!

@Bogartboginty Жыл бұрын

A true legend and what makes hockey so special.

@quisuis-je Жыл бұрын

Börje Salming 🫶🏼🇸🇪🇨🇦 Miss y’a Sundin!! 🇸🇪🇨🇦

@fredrikjaensson7350 Жыл бұрын

Keep fighting Börje💪💪💪

@yyzblader1947 Жыл бұрын

My hero. So humble. Will try to stay quiet for 21 seconds after my morning skates. Props to the greatest Maple leaf I've ever saw and experienced playing.

@lpc5152 2 жыл бұрын

Borje lived in my neighborhood in High Park Toronto. I have seen him pulling weeds on his front lawn and walking around Roncesvalles with his family.

@parklawn1697 Жыл бұрын

Long live The King 👑 #21 forever in our hearts

@bruce8321 3 жыл бұрын

I can't pick one over the other. Salming and Sundin? How do you choose. I guess it has to be Borje since he was the first and that took guts. Canada loves the Swedes.

@Forza8423 Жыл бұрын

Tack för allt Börje ❤️

@flingan7512 Жыл бұрын

hi from a swede. Just found out today that he has passed away 😭

@theyodabrothers42 9 жыл бұрын

god dam we need another player like him and also another mats wouldnt hurt lol!

@predestinedbyGod 9 жыл бұрын

i always get hope when i watch these ,hopefully the rebuild wont take that long

@peterthelarge5110 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, greatings from Sweden..

@czechhockeyfan4403 5 ай бұрын

One of the greatest hockey players of all time. Sadly he got a terrible illness. R I P King.

@yyzblader1947 Жыл бұрын

As if reinforced tensile steel was made into a hockey player! My hero RIP - The best defense man in Leaf's history

@KertoBrand Жыл бұрын

This was a great piece!

@carlnilssonyoung8961 3 жыл бұрын

Majestic player, had done so much for the leafs. What If he was in a great team in that Time,

@antonmelin6880 27 күн бұрын

Borje certanly was and will always be "The King" of Maple Leafs and the world.

@sean367 Жыл бұрын

My dad came to this country in the 60's and only started watching hockey because Borje signed for the leafs.Then he got season tickets. RIP King 🤴

@bennylloyd-willner9667 Жыл бұрын

@1:07 I didn't know Jean-Claude Van Damme played for The Leafs😁

@WXIWXI 2 жыл бұрын

Love! from south west Sweden!. Thanks for butiful video!

@user-mv6he6gl8m Жыл бұрын

Make Börje proud!

@jamesmarcino4335 9 жыл бұрын

With Nylander coming up....our 4th (either hopefully Strome, haff or Mitch) cant lose. Bottom line, with babs coaching and these great prospects coming about. Plus im sure we'll get another top 5 pick next year and possibly even the next we hAve a bright future ahead of us. We just have to be patient , but im confident this time we will finally have the development needed to be a successful franchise! I-be-leaf!

@Mike-ls8et 9 жыл бұрын

Nylander is composed as fuck. Can't wait to see him develop. Kid's got some tree trunk legs. New videos from prospect camp show that.

@DutchKingVanDERhorn 9 жыл бұрын

The future is bright for the maple leafs. We will be getting back to the way we used to be, skilled & feared. 10 years of misery for a future of success. Blue and White forever & always.

@ceciliaolsson7987 Жыл бұрын

Love this man,Börje!❤🇸🇪

@mazarinepriest7531 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Loved this one, regards a swede.

@jercool Жыл бұрын

I miss you allreadey😢

@larss.1876 Жыл бұрын

A kind and humle man looking like a real Rawskinn.

@Deffnotjordanmac 9 жыл бұрын

"Fuck off, he said"

@thattypicalleafsfan8116 9 жыл бұрын

Swavenation613 completely true and hopefully this year's draft gets us either Mitch Marner or Dylan Strome to help out our future. Go Leafs Go.

@klintzman 3 жыл бұрын

Legends 🤍💙

@Swededude74 Жыл бұрын

08:20 💙💛💙💛💙🥅🏒 We LOVE you, Börje!

@seanmudge7546 Жыл бұрын

the original King of the North

@user-ve5ln5le9y 4 ай бұрын

THIS and THIS again 👆🏻👆🏻

@loganlightscreative 9 жыл бұрын

No HD?

@seanjeffrey6439 9 жыл бұрын

If you can't sell winning, you have to try and sell hope

@emmacarlsater3377 Жыл бұрын

St.. salming

@emmacarlsater3377 Жыл бұрын

@davesuppa9434 Жыл бұрын

How didn’t he win a Norris ? Oh because they hated Europeans

@mike196212 Жыл бұрын

That used to annoy me too. I think the only people in the way were named Robinson and Potvin. I too used to think xenophobia was involved(I THINK Don Cherry is still essentially anti-European.). I don't know how many pucks Salming stopped from entering the Leafs' net. He saved the day SO MANY times when Palmateer and his successors were nowhere near the net. And he was a six-time all-star,a feat no Leaf has come anywhere close to since. One of the best players ever.