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

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2 жыл бұрын

Take a trip back to 1985 where they were asking the question, "What's wrong with the Leafs?" and everyone seemed to have an opinion on the matter.
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@Banananymous 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ckendall67 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Ain’t that the truth

@S_67F Жыл бұрын

@@andrewwalsh6401 I'd agree about the Cup drought (55 years...ouch!!!!!) but the team has been there

@alexandergillingham2592 Жыл бұрын

They should smarten up

@MrUndersolo 9 ай бұрын

That Jimmy Hoffa comment says it all.

@Dan-nt2yb 9 ай бұрын

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

@mediumdoubledouble9012 2 жыл бұрын

I miss the gardens!

@matttilley8620 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 9 ай бұрын

Its the cbc… typical

@19ninetynine Ай бұрын

Ron Mcloser, I mean Mclean

@orbyfan 3 ай бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Harold Ballard’s cultural impact has lasted into 2023!

@MrUndersolo Жыл бұрын

Some demons cannot be exorcised!

@paulwhite8556 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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....

@howardcraigiv518 11 ай бұрын

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

@cws480 2 жыл бұрын

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

@crow_2k11beatsbydre8 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ckendall67 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@S_67F Жыл бұрын

@@cws480 And they rode him to rehab for alcohol and severe knee damage

@SylveonMujigaeOfficial Жыл бұрын

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…

@mike196212 Жыл бұрын

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

@Devil6CR Жыл бұрын

Abandon all hope as a leafs fan.

@mike196212 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SylveonMujigaeOfficial Жыл бұрын

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

@mike196212 Жыл бұрын

@@SylveonMujigaeOfficial 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.

@mrceleb2006 2 жыл бұрын

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

@coastaku1954 9 ай бұрын

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

@StuMarston 6 ай бұрын

After the first month of the season, they got a little over confident.

@lordhighexecutioner 2 ай бұрын

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

@bobbykiriakidis9753 Жыл бұрын

The video quality on this is amazing

@Gator21 Жыл бұрын

Right. That’s the first thing I thought of. Haha.

@alexandergillingham2592 Жыл бұрын

Real funny.😠

@clark85 2 ай бұрын

2 words: Harold Ballard

@42yearoldboy5 27 күн бұрын

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

@ckendall67 2 жыл бұрын

The more things change......

@goldeneve 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MapleSyrupPoet 5 ай бұрын

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 😴

@canuck_gamer3359 Жыл бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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!

@mckessa17 Жыл бұрын

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

@alexandergillingham2592 Жыл бұрын

Wish they had it back in 1993

@alexandergillingham2592 Жыл бұрын

Instead of the Fagadiens

@charlesmartel3995 2 жыл бұрын

Harold Ballard is what is wrong with the Leafs.

@t-max7261 2 ай бұрын

Ballard set this franchise back to the Stone Age

@user-op5ht6gz2l Ай бұрын

they are still asking that question today

@bonnyharley5905 Жыл бұрын

WOW

@robertliddle4711 Жыл бұрын

Nothing like mono audio

@sdeepj 2 жыл бұрын

1:35 It’s going to get even sadder 😂

@GdF420 2 жыл бұрын

"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 2 жыл бұрын

Forum de Montréal was THE mecca.

@awesomematthews1238 2 жыл бұрын

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

@coastaku1954 9 ай бұрын

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

@bb-gc2tx Жыл бұрын

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

@Devil6CR Жыл бұрын

2023 and it's still relevant.

@FischerFan 11 күн бұрын

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

@lordhighexecutioner 2 ай бұрын

They won a playoff round that year!

@mjwatts1983 Ай бұрын

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

@StuMarston 6 ай бұрын

Funny to hear them lamenting that they haven't won the cup in almost twenty years. LMAO Don't get over confident. That is awesome.

@billyringah Жыл бұрын

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.

@leafyutube 2 ай бұрын

This helped the Leafs get Wendel Clark.

@mjwatts1983 Ай бұрын

The eternal catnip!

@Marshal_Dunnik Ай бұрын

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

@awesomematthews1238 2 жыл бұрын

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

@coastaku1954 9 ай бұрын

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

@philojudaeusofalexandria9556 Ай бұрын

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

@Classicrocker6119 Жыл бұрын

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

@palette_1563 11 ай бұрын

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

@scottalexander9853 Жыл бұрын

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

@JensSchraeder Ай бұрын

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

@MrUndersolo 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lzeb4730 2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@awesomematthews1238 2 жыл бұрын

Are you enjoying your playoff run this year?

@MrUndersolo 2 жыл бұрын

@@awesomematthews1238 Are you? 🙃

@MrUndersolo 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lzeb4730 2 жыл бұрын

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

@sumotong1475 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ckendall67 2 жыл бұрын

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

@markvando6075 Жыл бұрын

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

@MrUndersolo Жыл бұрын

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'!

@DNSKansas 4 ай бұрын

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.

@crow_2k11beatsbydre8 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MrUndersolo 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! That's Toronto Make-Me-Laffs! ;)

@lzeb4730 2 жыл бұрын

There are worse franchises.

@S_67F Жыл бұрын

What jersey do you see in every rink and in every country?

@alexandergillingham2592 Жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha😠

@alexandergillingham2592 Жыл бұрын

Laffs my ass