How fitting that the Toronto Maple Leafs -- a team formerly known as the St. Patricks -- will play a game this St. Patrick's Day?

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.

This week Fischler goes back exactly 30 years when two New York Islanders moonlighted as comedians in a fun television feature.

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.

This week Fischler zeroes in on a historic game played 75 years ago at The Forum in Montreal. It marked the first time a player of Asian descent played in an NHL game.

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.

Following the 2023 NHL Trade Deadline, Fischler reaches back 32 years to analyze one of the most compelling deals in League history. 

Dick Duff, a six-time Stanley Cup champion with the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, is a vital subplot in a gentle, under-the-radar hockey movie that he's never seen.

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.

As the NHL regular season reaches the homestretch, Fischler turns back the calendar a half-century and recalls the Toronto Maple Leafs' wild Stanley Cup run in 1967.

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday. 

This week Fischler harks back 31 years when Ron Francis, now the Seattle Kraken general manager, played a critical role for the Pittbsurgh Penguins to help them win their second straight Stanley Cup championship.

Erwin Groves Chamberlain, "Murph" to all, nicknamed "Old Hardrock" by many, was born on Valentine's Day in 1915, a fine checking forward bound for an NHL career that would see him twice win the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens and score 100 goals for four teams between 1937-49.

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.

This week Fischler features former Boston Bruins forward Ed Sandford in his "Voices From The Past" segment.

Sandford played eight seasons with the Bruins (1947-55) and retired in 1956 after splitting one season with the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks. He was an off-ice official in Boston for three decades after his playing career ended.

Denis DeJordy frantically buckled his pads in the Chicago Black Hawks dressing room, too focused on the task at hand to realize the history he was making as his team's emergency backup goalie.