Ken Randall was an original Toronto Arena when the National Hockey League formed, and we will make the case that he was one of the most underrated players of the era.

Randall played mostly on the blueline but would occasionally play at Right Wing when needed.  A Stanley Cup champion immediately when the Arenas won it all, he was also a champion in 1922, when the then-named St. Pats won it again.  With the exception of his first year, Randall was in the top ten in Defensive Point Shares each season he was in Toronto, which ended when he was traded to Hamilton.

With Toronto, Randall had a good run with 86 Points in 128 Games.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have had their share of titles and snipers, but it is a surprise to some to learn that Rick Vaive was the first player in franchise history to score 50 Goals in a season.

Arriving from Vancouver in early 1980, Vaive blossomed into one of Toronto’s top goal scorers of the 1980s, who not only had that aforementioned 50-Goal year (1981-82) with 54, he eclipsed the 50-Goal mark the next two seasons.  The Right Wing was also an All-Star in all of those seasons.  Vaive’s lamp-lighting production dipped after that, but in those three years, 30-Goal outputs were perfectly respectable.  

Vaive was traded to Chicago right before the 1987-88 season began, and as a Maple Leaf, he had 299 Goals, and was a point-per-game player.

Max Bentley’s best years might have been with Chicago, where he won the Hart Trophy in 1946, but at age 27, he was traded to Toronto, where the two-time scoring champion had a lot left to offer.

The Maple Leafs had a lot more talent than Chicago, but Bentley was still a good scorer, posting five consecutive 40-point years with the Buds.  Bentley helped Toronto win three Stanley Cups (1948, 1949 & 1951) and was the leading playoff scorer in 1951.

Bentley was traded to the Rangers before the 1953-54 Season, where he was reunited with his brother Doug, but he only played in half the season, and refused to report to New York the following year.  His rights were given back to Toronto, but they never agreed on terms, and Bentley never played in the NHL again.  As a Maple Leaf, Bentley scored 256 Points, the same amount he did in Chicago.

Bentley was chosen for the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966.

One of the most versatile players in the early days of Hockey, Reg Noble played in the first season of the NHL, where he helped take the Toronto Arenas to the Stanley Cup.  Noble was just getting started.

Noble played both at Center and Defense, and was an early star at two-way play.  He helped Toronto (now the St. Pats) win the Cup again in 1922, and he averaged 1.13 Points per Game for Toronto before he was sold to the Montreal Maroons in 1924.  He played until 1933 and was the last man standing from the NHL's inaugural season.

Noble was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962.