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Maple Leafs Top 100

Prolific hockey writer Mike Leonetti set out to answer one of the most difficult questions in all of hockey. Who is the greatest Toronto Maple Leaf of all time? Not an easy question, is it? While Montreal has Rocket Richard , Boston has Bobby Orr , Detroit has Gordie Howe , Chicago has Bobby Hull and Edmonton has Wayne Gretzky , is there a definitive face of the storied Toronto Maple Leafs franchise? In fact, when I named the top 36 hockey players of all time a couple months back, I did not include a single player synonymous with the Maple Leafs. ( Terry Sawchuk and Red Kelly both made my list, but I think most people always view them, especially Sawchuk, as Red Wings) If you were to ask 14 different people you'd come up with 14 different answers. Well that's exactly what Leonetti did for his latest book project Maple Leafs Top 100: Toronto's Greatest Players Of All Time . Leonetti asked a jury of Mark Askin, Howard Berger, Joe Bowen, Milt Dunnell, Doug Farraway, Paul H...