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  Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens is up for sale, meaning the last of the Original Six arenas could soon become anything from condos to a shopping mall.
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd., which owns the Maple Leafs, Raptors and Air Canada Centre, says it is looking at the redevelopment or sale of the 68-year-old building.
Maple Leaf Gardens was one of the only venues Elvis played outside of the United States where he gave two incredible conerts on April 2, 1957.
hockey.ballparks.com /NHL/TorontoMapleLeafs/index.htm   (1402 words)

  
  Maple Leaf Gardens Sex Scandal
Sometimes, he remembers, the star-struck kids even received invitations to the Toronto Maple Leafs' dressing room, where they were introduced to their hockey heroes.
Maple Leafs president Cliff Fletcher said the Gardens' insurance company, Royal Insurance Canada, investigated Kruze's original allegations promptly, but concluded that the assaults were isolated incidents.
For former Maple Leafs, the revelation that teenagers were being violated near their dressing room was almost impossible to believe.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0011176   (1419 words)

  
 Friends of Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens, since its construction in 1931, has been the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, where radio coverage of "Hockey Night in Canada" began and was broadcast by Foster Hewitt for almost fifty years.
The greatest heritage importance of the Gardens in Dr. Bliss' opinion is that it is "the cathedral of Canadian Hockey in its golden age", when the National Hockey League was emerging to become North America's dominant expression of the game.
The Gardens' facades are symmetrical, with subtle changes in wall plane and height to emphasize the middle section.
www.friendsofmapleleafgardens.ca /history.cfm   (1321 words)

  
 MapleLeafGardens
The Toronto Maple Leafs, Maple Leafs and associated logo marks, the NHL, the NHL Shield, the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup, and NHL Conference logos are registered trade-marks of MLSE and/or the National Hockey League.
All Maple Leafs, NHL logos, marks and NHL member club logos and marks as well as all other proprietary materials depicted on this Web site are the property of MLSE and/or the NHL and the respective NHL member clubs.
As the last surviving edifice from the days of Hockey's "Original Six," Maple Leaf Gardens, is an historical shrine in the city of Toronto and in the world of hockey.
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 Maple Leaf Gardens and the ACC
Maple Leaf Gardens is the oldest arena in all of the NHL.
The ice surface is 26 metres by 61 metres and it remain in place from late august to the end of the season.
The Maple Leafs have finished their time at the Gardens and have moved on to a bigger arena called the Air Canada Center.
www.angelfire.com /nb/torontomapleleafsfan/mapleleafgardens.html   (504 words)

  
 The OHL Arena & Travel Guide - Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto Marlboros
Maple Leaf Gardens was the last of the "Original Six" arenas to go up, built in seven months during the Depression to replace Mutual St. Arena.
The Chicago Stadium was closed in 1994, the Boston Garden in 1995, the Montreal Forum in 1996, and finally Maple Leaf Gardens in 1999.
Maple Leaf Gardens is one block east of Yonge on the left.
www.ohlarenaguide.com /mlg.htm   (1118 words)

  
 The National Post 4/14/04
Calling itself Friends of Maple Leaf Gardens, the group tonight brings Senator Frank Mahovlich, the hockey legend, and Phyllis Lambert, the architecture visionary, to a free public forum at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, on Front Street, on the future of Maple Leaf Gardens.
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Inc., which moved the Leafs to the Air Canada Centre in 1999, declined to attend tonight's forum, and Bob Hunter, executive vice-president, says he finds it a pointless exercise.
What we care about the Gardens is retaining the facade." He says he is in active negotiations right now to sell the place, but he won't say with whom.
www.murphsplace.com /crowe/braddock/maple-leaf2.html   (765 words)

  
 The Current State of Maple Leaf Gardens - HFBoards
Eight years since the final game was played at Maple Leaf Gardens the interior of the hockey shrine is both frozen in time and in a state of slow decay.
Maple Leaf Gardens' fame is backed-up by Toronto tourism which says that directions to the building are one of the top questions asked by tourists.
Maple Leaf Gardens might have been the home ice rink of the Toronto Maple Leafs but it was also the clubhouse for disgusting pedophiles as well.
hfboards.com /showthread.php?p=7842725   (1024 words)

  
 POLLARA - Public Opinion and Market Research
The respondents overwhelmingly, by 81 per cent, supported the idea that the Gardens be converted into a large minor-hockey arena and tribute museum.
Maple Leaf Sport, which also owns Air Canada Centre, had earlier nixed Mr.
Melnyk had continued to pursue the Gardens -- separately from Loblaw -- to use as the home arena of his Ontario Hockey League St. Michael's Majors, as well as a museum as a tribute to minor hockey.
www.pollara.ca /Library/News/mapleLeafGardens.html   (468 words)

  
 Sports 2000 Moments - Memories grew in the Gardens
Those were the days for the Maple Leafs, who were led by one of the fastest lines in history -- the Kid Line, with slick little center Joe Primeau, Charlie Conacher on his right and Busher Jackson on his left.
The Maple Leafs fell behind the Detroit Red Wings 3-0 in the series, but rallied to win four consecutive games and the Stanley Cup.
Imlach's last championship in 1967 was a bad sign for the franchise, because the Maple Leafs beat Montreal with the NHL's oldest championship team ever, with an average age of 31.
www.sportingnews.com /archives/sports2000/moments/140670.html   (1531 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - It's not too late for Maple Leaf Gardens - 06.17.04
The Conn Smythe trophy is a model of Maple Leaf Gardens, surmounted by a maple leaf.
In 1998, when the Leafs still played there before being moved off to the Air Canada Centre, the Toronto Visitors' Bureau reported that the building most tourists asked directions to was Maple Leaf Gardens.
The Gardens is a national treasure even though it has always remained in private ownership, often with strange owners and sometimes even the locus of very offensive acts, including sexual abuse.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.17.04/city/citystate.html   (1100 words)

  
 CNN/SI - NHL Hockey - Your memories of Maple Leaf Gardens - Saturday February 13, 1999 07:09 PM
I love the Gardens, it's a shrine but sometimes I wish I was born in the '50s and I could remember the Birilko goal instead of how the Leafs lost a game to money.
Maple Leaf Gardens is the last of the truly special arenas in hockey.
Yes these new buildings are bigger and prettier, with their microbreweries and luxury boxes, but for true fans, the disappearance of these landmarks is just a physical portrait of how a once great game has become valueless due to the greed of both players and owners.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/nhl/news/1999/02/13/mlg_responses   (1785 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Gardens to become a Loblaws - workopolis.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Maple Leaf Sports, which also owns the Air Canada Centre, had said from the outset that it didn't want a competing sports and entertainment facility at the Gardens.
As well, Maple Leaf Sports had weighed a bid from Home Depot to put a big-box store in the Gardens with high-rise condominiums at one of its corners.
The Gardens, brainchild of hockey entrepreneur Conn Smythe, opened on Nov. 12, 1931, in the midst of the Depression.
www.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/fasttrack/20031022/UGARD22   (672 words)

  
 Sports: Maple Leaf Gardens won't be a food store
"Maple Leaf Sports had a great opportunity to sell to an owner who would have maintained Maple Leaf Gardens as a first-class facility for minor hockey with the dignity that it deserves," Melnyk said in an e-mail.
Maple Leaf Sports does not want an arena that would compete with the Air Canada Centre, which opened in 1999.
He said while Maple Leaf Sports is in no hurry to sell the Gardens, "We do want to get on with some sort of redevelopment because we think we owe it to the building and the neighborhood."
www.sptimes.com /2003/12/26/Sports/Maple_Leaf_Gardens_wo.shtml   (650 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Tickets Customer Feedback
Maple Leaf also packaged brochures for the attractions that I ordered tickets from and drink coupons for the dinner theater that I ordered tickets to.
I would recommend Maple Leaf tickets highly to anyone, not to mention you save a lot of money but the service is outstanding.
Maybe it helped ease my mind that the owner is originally from Canada (hence the 'Maple Leaf' name) and we are also Canadian, in fact from the Atlantic Provinces, as he is. I would like to add my personal recommendation to anyone considering using Maple Leaf for purchasing passes at a substantial saving.
www.mapleleaftickets.com /customer_feedback.htm   (1373 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Gardens
Downtown Toronto arena, home of the famed Maple Leaf hockey team and venue for other sports and entertainment activities.
Beginning in the 1960s, it was the venue for virtually all of the city's major indoor rock and pop concerts until the SkyDome was opened in 1989.
Among the artists and bands that have appeared at the Gardens are the Beatles, New Kids on the Block, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, the Who, and Neil Young.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002202   (242 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports MLG photo gallery
Former Maple Leafs and hall of famers gather on a Leafs logo.
Leafs hall of famers bid farewell to Maple Leaf Gardens.
Leafs players stand along the bluelione during the opening ceremonies.
www.sunmedia.ca /GoodbyeGardens/gallery.html   (265 words)

  
 1930s - Toronto Maple Leafs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As the 1930’s began, the Toronto Maple Leafs were still playing in the old Arena Gardens (also called the Mutual Street Arena), with a capacity of only 8,000.
The problem was that the Leafs had to travel to New York by train to meet the Rangers later that night for the opening game of the finals.
Although the Leafs finished in first place in the Canadian Division in the 1933-34 season, and led the entire league with 61 points in the 48-game schedule, the Dick Irvin coached Leafs bowed out in the semi-finals to the Detroit Red Wings in the best-of-five series, winning two and losing three.
www.mapleleafs.com /history/1930s.asp   (941 words)

  
 Friends of Maple Leaf Gardens
The Friends of Maple Leaf Gardens was formed in early 2004 to help ensure the long term existence of The Gardens as a place to play hockey.
Built in 1931, the Gardens served for almost 70 years as the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs until they moved to the Air Canada Centre.
We have recognized that it is unlikely that The Gardens will be home to a professional hockey team in the near future, but that does not mean that other appropriate uses might not emerge.
www.friendsofmapleleafgardens.ca   (271 words)

  
 www.theaircanadacentre.com
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has the most valuable portfolio of corporate partners in Canadian professional sports including companies such as Air Canada and TD Waterhouse.
April 22, 1998 Maple Leaf close deal to purchase the Toronto Raptors/ Air Canada Centre; work begins on $50 million renovation to upgrade building that is now 55 percent complete.
January 5, 1999 First ever Maple Leafs practice on fresh ice at Air Canada Centre.
www.theaircanadacentre.com /aboutACC.php?level=1§ionID=4&parentID=164   (1211 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Gardens Tickets - Maple Leaf Gardens Information - Maple Leaf Gardens Seating Chart
The price listed for Maple Leaf Gardens tickets is the total price per ticket and may be over the printed price on the ticket.
Maple Leaf Gardens seats are together, side by side, unless otherwise noted.
Actual Maple Leaf Gardens seat numbers are withheld for the privacy of both buyer and seller.
www.vividseats.com /venues/maple-leaf-gardens-tickets.html   (176 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Gardens' memories
 "Maple Leaf Gardens was a sex haven for pedophiles," Kruze said.
Thinking of the Gardens as a den of evil simply didn't mesh with most people's rose-coloured childhood memories.
In subsequent months, Dryden made the Gardens available as a meeting place for those who wanted to try to extract some good from a tragedy.
www.canoe.ca /GoodbyeGardens/feb12_mem.html   (673 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Gardens' memories
 "Maple Leaf Gardens was a sex haven for pedophiles," Kruze said.
Thinking of the Gardens as a den of evil simply didn't mesh with most people's rose-coloured childhood memories.
In subsequent months, Dryden made the Gardens available as a meeting place for those who wanted to try to extract some good from a tragedy.
slam.canoe.ca /GoodbyeGardens/feb12_mem.html   (673 words)

  
 Maple Leaves Forever
Maple Leafs as it refers to a organization or sports franchise is considered a proper noun and not bound by normal rules of grammar and spelling.
Maple Leaf Gardens was built and the new team began to play there in the 1931 and 1932 season.
The Maple Leaf was a recognized symbol of Canada.
www.mapleleavesforever.com /news.asp?ID=60   (398 words)

  
 Alumni Bio - Ace Bailey - Toronto Maple Leafs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The skilled winger continued to develop in Toronto and was establishing himself as the main attraction at Maple Leaf Gardens when catastrophe struck at Boston Garden, December 12, 1933.
Ace Bailey was part of the first-ever Maple Leaf Stanley Cup victory in 1932, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.
Only players who have made a significant contribution to the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and have experienced a career-ending incident while a member of the Maple Leaf team will have their numbers considered for retirement.
www.mapleleafs.com /team/alumni/abailey.asp   (350 words)

  
 GARY WILL: Arena Gardens: Toronto's original wrestling palace (1922-1938) -- Toronto Wrestling History
Maple Leaf Gardens is Toronto's most storied wrestling venue and is one of a handful of sites that can credibly be called a pro wrestling mecca.
But before there was Maple Leaf Gardens, there was another Gardens that was Toronto's primary wrestling venue -- the site where major league pro wrestling became established in the city.
Arena Gardens was built in 1912 for $500,000 and was at the time the largest indoor arena in the country.
www.garywill.com /toronto/arenagardens.htm   (561 words)

  
 Wrestling made Maple Leaf Gardens great
As the final days tick away on Maple Leaf Gardens, let us take a moment to remember what was really important in that legendary arena.
For The Hungarian Wolfman Willie Farkus, Maple Leaf Gardens was the "very, very best place" to wrestle, and he remembered fighting Whipper Billy Watson in a main event (in his heavy accent, it was actually closer to "Vipper Villy Vatson, long time ago").
Maple Leaf Gardens became an important stop for the WWF, and one of best arenas on their circuit.
www.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingArchive/mlg.html   (1084 words)

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