Former Leafs forward Wendel Clark talks concussions, captaincy and trades [Video]

TORONTO - Thirty-one years ago, the Toronto Maple Leafs were as bad a team as they are now — if not worse.

With a skeletal roster made up of mostly young players who were still learning how to become pros, the Leafs won just 20 games all season and finished dead last. And for the first time in franchise history, they had the No. 1 pick, which they used on Wendel Clark, a farm boy from Saskatchewan who already had a moustache and a rebellious reputation.

On the first day of training camp, they moved him from defence to forward. On the second day, someone challenged him to a fight.

Well, two actually.

“It was like first day of training camp scrimmages and we ran into each other a couple of times…