Leafs To Honour Former Team Captains

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Leafs Will Honor Clark & Gilmour
Published 7/21/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
from the Toronto Maple Leafs, The Toronto Maple Leafs will celebrate the achievements of two of their all-time greats in special ceremonies during the 2008-09 NHL season. Wendel Clark and Doug Gilmour, perhaps the two most beloved Toronto Maple Leafs over the course of the past 25 years, will have banners raised to honour their extraordinary contributions to the Original Six franchise. continued

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Leaf Captains: Two to be Honoured, One to Sign?
Published 7/22/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (MF37) at Bitter Leaf Fan Page
So the Leafs have announced they will be honouring Doug Gilmour and Wendel Clark this season. As many of you likely know, the Toronto Maple Leafs only honour numbers - they don't retire them (the only two numbers the Leafs have retired are #5 for Bill Barilko and #6 for Ace Bailey). It's official team policy to retire the jerseys of outstanding players who are struck by tragedy while members of the club (still to be determined: if management's abject failure to properly build a club around the talents of Mats Sundin qualifies as a tragedy). Honouring v. retiring numbers aside, it's great to see that each player will have his own ceremony. It certainly irked ...

Leafs to Honor Gilmour and Clark
Published 7/22/2008 by TonyH at Skate 2 Stick
Two Former Captains To Have Banners Raised Wendel Clark and Doug Gilmour To Be Honoured in Separate Ceremonies The Toronto Maple Leafs will celebrate the achievements of two of their all-time greats in special ceremonies during the 2008-09 NHL season. Wendel Clark and Doug Gilmour, perhaps the two most beloved Toronto Maple Leafs over the course of the past 25 years, will have banners raised to honour their extraordinary contributions to the Original Six franchise. Clark will be saluted in pregame ceremonies prior to the Maple Leafs’ November 22 game against the Chicago Blackhawks, and Gilmour will be recognized January 31 when the ...