Bobby Baun reminds us a lot of Paul Henderson in that he is best known for one game.  Baun fractured his ankle early in Game 3 of the 1964 Stanley Cup Championship but returned to the ice to score the game-winning goal against the Detroit Red Wings and would help Toronto win the Cup that year.

Overall, Bob Baun had an excellent stay-at-home blueline career in the National Hockey League, where he was a five-time All-Star, four-time Stanley Cup winner, and was the NHL leader in Defensive Point Shares (1960-61).  He is also a five-time All-Star.

Dick Duff began his career with the Maple Leafs in 1954, where he showed his gritty two-way play quickly as an asset.

Duff would be one of the players in which Toronto was rebuilt around.  While he was not a scoring machine, he was a glue guy who was capable of digging his skates in where necessary and doing the grinding necessary to win games.  The Left Wing had three straight seasons (1956-57 to 1958-59) where he had at least 26 Goals, and he would play a large part in Toronto’s 1962 and 1963 Stanley Cup wins.

Duff was traded late in the 1963-64 Season to New York in a deal that sent over Andy Bathgate.  Duff missed out on the Maple Leafs’ Stanley Cup that year, but he won four more with Montreal.  As a Leaf, Duff scored 342 Points.

Duff entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2006.

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.