Toronto Maple Leafs: Darryl Sittler’s 10 Point Night Was My Stanley Cup

Toronto Maple Leafs fans of my generation cannot look fondly back on halcyon days of ticker-tape parades and Stanley Cup banners being raised in the rafters of their teams’ home rink.

There was a time in leaf land when such scenes were commonplace. However, those of my generation were born a decade too late to witness such glorious occasions featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs.

No, the sad fate of those of us born in the mid-1960s, too young at the time to recall the 1967 Stanley Cup victory, was to inherit the late 20th century and early 21st Century misery that was yet to come.

Except for a brief time in the late 70s and the early 90s, the buds have teased and tortured their faithful throng of…