The hometown banner tour takes the old banners that honoured players in Maple Leaf Gardens and the ACC and moves them to the player’s hometowns to be raised there. The banners were replaced this season with new ones marking the retirement of the numbers of 16 players. The Leafs have toured several towns and cities so far.
Bill Barilko and Frank Mahovlich were honoured in Timmins, Ontario in November as part of the Hockey Night in Canada broadcast:
In December they went farther north than Timmins. They went to Kiruna, Sweden, the most northerly city in the country.