Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto Maple Leafs blew down the supposedly robust Detroit Red Wings in four straight games, to win the Stanley Cup, hockey's richest honor...
Hockey fans, like the game they yell at, are not polite. All season in Toronto, they had grumbled about mild-mannered Harry Watson. He seemed backward about parting the enemy's hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
Roughest & Readiest. Stanley Cup tempers were flaring. The Bruins, two games down to the Maple Leafs and faced with elimination, were playing rough. The vaultlike arena rumbled with the noise of battle. Fist fights broke out on the ice, and fans started another by jumping three Toronto players and their coach at the end of the game (which Toronto won, 5 to 1). When Weston Adams, Bruins president, entered the Toronto dressing room to see if the players were injured, he was pelted with profanity by Connie Smythe, Maple Leafs managing director, and ordered out of the room...
Brains & Short Bursts. Toronto's strength, over & above brawling brawn, lies in its fast, brainy centers (the quarterbacks of hockey). One is Syl Apps, 34, who once thought of becoming a clergyman. This season, afraid that Apps was slowing down, the Leafs traded five good men to the Chicago Black Hawks for pint-sized (150 Ibs.) Max Bentley, one of the most skilled stick-handlers in the game. But Apps, the playmaker, could still show dazzling speed in short bursts; and the Leafs had Bentley, too, and a young bulldog-type center called Teeder Kennedy...
...acclaim from fellow Maple Leafs as they loosened skates and climbed out of their pads. "There's our champ," said Boss Smythe, pointing at mild Harry Watson, "enter him in the heavyweight class." Boss Smythe knows that pandemonium on skates is good for business. Four nights later, Toronto dumped Boston from the playoffs, got ready to buck Detroit in the finals...