Born in 1925, in Edmonton Alberta, John McCormack arrived at Leafs Training Camp in 1945, only to leave abruptly, due to a severe case of appendicitis. It was then that John; nicknamed "Goose" due to his long neck, decided to leave hockey to become a priest. 

As the team celebrates its Centennial anniversary season, the Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that four additional players would be inducted into the team's Legends Row monument this year with Wendel Clark, Charlie Conacher, Red Kelly and Frank Mahovlich being honoured with statues to be unveiled this fall. The four Leaf greats will join previous inductees Ted Kennedy, Darryl Sittler, Johnny Bower, Borje Salming, George Armstrong, Syl Apps, Mats Sundin, Dave Keon, Turk Broda and Tim Horton on Legends Row bringing the total number of statues to fourteen.

Before the Maple Leaf and Red Wings stars of today match up outdoors in the 2017 Scotiabank NHL Centennial Classic on New Year's Day, the legends of yesterday for both teams will face off in the 2017 Rogers NHL Centennial Classic Alumni Game, a game that celebrates the rich history of the two Original Six franchises.

Eight have been delivered so far and in a stretch of just fourteen days, four were delivered across two provinces… and two nations.

One undisputable fact is that mining towns produce Maple Leafs stars. Towns that mine for iron, copper, nickel and gold. On the fortnight that began November 27, a Leaf that wore that very same number, returned home to Timmins (Schumacher to be completely accurate), the McIntyre Arena and the very ice surface on which he learned to love the game. Frank Mahovlich along with Bill Barilko called this gold mining town home.

Moments before dropping the puck in the team's Centennial Anniversary home opener, the Toronto Maple Leafs officially retired the numbers of 16 players that were once honoured with banners hanging in Air Canada Centre, alongside the two previously retired numbers of Ace Bailey and Bill Barilko. The team also added Dave Keon to the distinguished group by raising a new banner to retire his number 14.

One day after he was honoured with his own, life-sized bronze statue on the Maple Leafs' Legends Row, franchise icon Dave Keon received one of the ultimate individual compliments any player can hope for when he was named the greatest Leaf in the 100-year-history of the team. But, in typically-humble fashion, the four-time Stanley Cup winner and Hockey Hall of Famer spoke more about the people who came before him and his teammates during the Friday announcement of the 100 Greatest Leafs - "The One Hundred", as it's called - than he spoke of his own incredible accomplishments.

It was a picture-perfect, crisp Fall afternoon Thursday in Toronto - ideal weather to be talking about the sport that courses through the city's veins year-round, and ideal weather for the Maple Leafs to add three franchise icons - former captain Dave Keon, defenceman Tim Horton, and goaltender Turk Broda - to the Legends Row exhibit outside Air Canada Centre.

As the Toronto Maple Leafs begin preparations this week for the official start to the team's Centennial Anniversary, a collection of distinguished Leafs Alumni will play an exhibition game against the Halifax Mariners at Scotiabank Centre on Sunday, September 25 at 7 p.m. The game is one of several activities the team is participating in during training camp from September 23-26 in Halifax.