1992–93 Toronto Maple Leafs season

NHLTeamSeason
Season=1992–93
Team=Toronto Maple Leafs
Conference= Clarence Campbell
ConferenceRank=4th
Division= Norris
DivisionRank= 3rd
Record=44–29–11
HomeRecord=25–11–6
RoadRecord=19–18–5
GoalsFor=288
GoalsAgainst=241
GeneralManager= Cliff Fletcher
Coach= Pat Burns
Captain=Wendel Clark
AltCaptain= Doug Gilmour
Bob Rouse
Arena= Maple Leaf Gardens
Attendance=
GoalsLeader=Doug Gilmour (32)
AssistsLeader=Doug Gilmour (95)
PointsLeader=Doug Gilmour (127)
PIMLeader=Rob Pearson (211)
WinsLeader=Felix Potvin (25)
GAALeader=Darren Puppa (2.25)
DivisionWin=yes

Offseason

NHL Draft

¹ Played at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario.

November

February

Player stats

Forwards

"Note: GP= Games played; G= Goals; AST= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Points"

Playoffs

Conference Finals

This exciting and very heated seven-game series has long been remembered by hockey fans. The Toronto Maple Leafs iced a highly competitive team for the first time in years and were hoping to break their 26-year Stanley Cup drought; they had not even been to the Final since their last Cup win in 1967. The Los Angeles Kings, led by captain Wayne Gretzky, also had high ambitions. During Game 1 (a dominating victory for the Leafs) Los Angeles blue-liner Marty McSorley delivered a serious open ice hit on Toronto's Doug Gilmour. Leafs captain Wendel Clark took exception to the hit and went after McSorley for striking their star player. Toronto coach Pat Burns tried scaling the bench to get at Los Angeles coach Barry Melrose because he thought he ordered the hit on Gilmour (McSorley later remarked in interviews that he received dozens of death threat messages on his hotel phone from angry fans). Toronto would take a 3–2 series lead after five games. Game 6 went back west to the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles; it too was not without controversy and was also decided on an overtime goal. During the 1992–93 season, there was a league-wide crackdown on high-sticking infractions, whether they were accidental or not. In Game 6, Gilmour was part of controversy once again. With the game tied at 4 in overtime, Wayne Gretzky accidentally clipped him in the face with the blade of his stick. Many thought that referee Kerry Fraser should have called a penalty on the play, but Gretzky was not penalized, and he went on to score the overtime goal moments later, evening the series at 3–3. He would score three goals in the deciding game to give Los Angeles a berth in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history and also the first time the Kings win a playoff series against an Original Six team. Gretzky has been quoted as saying that his performance in Game 7 was the best NHL game of his career. [http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=p199901&page=bio]

*May 17 - Los Angeles 1 Toronto 4
*May 19 - Los Angeles 3 Toronto 2
*May 21 - Toronto 2 Los Angeles 4
*May 23 - Toronto 4 Los Angeles 2
*May 25 - Los Angeles 2 Toronto 3 (OT)
*May 27 - Toronto 4 Los Angeles 5 (OT)
*May 29 - Los Angeles 5 Toronto 4

"Los Angeles wins best-of-seven series 4–3"

Awards and records

* Pat Burns, Jack Adams Trophy
* Doug Gilmour, Selke Trophy
* Doug Gilmour, Molson Cup (Most game star selections for Toronto Maple Leafs)
* Doug Gilmour, Franchise Record, Most Points in One Season, 127 Points [ NHL Official Guide and Record Book 2006, Senior Managing Editor: Ralph Dinger, Published in Canada by Dan Diamond & Associates, Toronto, ON, ISBN in Canada 0-920445-98-5, p. 131 ]
*Doug Gilmour, Franchise Record, Most Points by a Centre in One Season, 127 Points [ NHL Official Guide and Record Book 2006, Senior Managing Editor: Ralph Dinger, Published in Canada by Dan Diamond & Associates, Toronto, ON, ISBN in Canada 0-920445-98-5, p. 131 ]
*Doug Gilmour, Franchise Record, Most Assists in One Season, 95 Assists [ NHL Official Guide and Record Book 2006, Senior Managing Editor: Ralph Dinger, Published in Canada by Dan Diamond & Associates, Toronto, ON, ISBN in Canada 0-920445-98-5, p. 131 ]
* Doug Gilmour, Most assists in one game (6), Toronto club record

References

* [http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0000381993.html Maple Leafs on Hockey Database]