Can adding points to the new Maple Leaf logo lead to extra points in the NHL standings?
The club hopes so as it unveiled its new crest for the 2016-17 centennial season and beyond late Tuesday night.
Those old enough to recall the team’s golden era, from 1942-64 when nine of the franchise’s 13 Stanley Cups were won, will recognize the ‘classic’ Leaf that was first created in the 1938-39 season and stayed mostly untouched until the mid-’60s. After the team began life as the Toronto Arenas in 1917 and later the St. Patricks, Conn Smythe bought the club 89 years ago this month and named it in part for the badge Canadian soldiers proudly wore in the First World War.