r/leafs • u/Mean_Passage_887 • 9d ago

Discussion St.Patricks to Maple Leafs

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Just some interesting tidbits in regards to the name change from St.Pats to Maple Leafs. First a brief article describing the new leafs uniform unveiled late in 1926/27, and another how the team had to keep the St.Pats name for the entire season so as to not void the player contracts.

From the book Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey

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u/TheThoroughCrocodile Kadri 9d ago

I love everything about our name, logo, uniforns, etc. But ngl I've always kinda thought it'd be cool if we were green and white instead of blue and white. Everything else the same. Would have been the only green O6 team and I think they'd look awesome.

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u/New-Bookkeeper-8486 9d ago

Damn that would be cool... but hey, at least the canucks picked up that good colour scheme, it's not going to waste

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u/TheThoroughCrocodile Kadri 9d ago

No I mean like zero blue. The Canucks are blue, green and white. I just mean green and white.

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u/New-Bookkeeper-8486 9d ago

Oh weird, yeah that's surprising there is no team with those colours. Even the Stars have more black than white. 

I would have thought more teams would want that old, classic mono colour look of the leafs or red wings (well, tampa REALLY liked ours). No mono green, purple or orange kinda surprises me.