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1955–56 Toronto Maple Leafs season

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1955–56 Toronto Maple Leafs · NHL
Division 4th NHL
1955–56 record 24–33–13
Goals for 153
Goals against 181
General Manager Conn Smythe
Coach King Clancy
Captain Sid Smith
Arena Maple Leaf Gardens
Team Leaders
Goals Tod Sloan (37)
Assists George Armstrong (32)
Points Tod Sloan (66)
Penalties in minutes Tod Sloan (100)
Wins Harry Lumley (21)
Goals against average Ed Chadwick (0.60)
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1954–55 1956–57

The 1955–56 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 39th season in the NHL. The Maple Leafs finished 4th in the league and lost in the Semi-finals to the Detroit Red Wings four games to one.

Off-seasonEdit

Regular SeasonEdit

On-ice officials first wore striped shirts during the December 29, 1955 game between Toronto and the Montreal Canadiens.

Final StandingsEdit

National Hockey League GP W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal Canadiens 70 45 15 10 100 222 131
Detroit Red Wings 70 30 24 16 76 183 148
New York Rangers 70 32 28 10 74 204 203
Toronto Maple Leafs 70 24 33 13 61 153 181
Boston Bruins 70 23 34 13 59 147 185
Chicago Black Hawks 70 19 39 12 50 155 216

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Teams that qualify for the playoffs are indicated in bold.

Game LogEdit

No. R Date Score Opponent Record
1LOctober 6, 19550–2 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 0–1–0
2WOctober 8, 19554–2 Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 1–1–0
3LOctober 9, 19551–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 1–2–0
4LOctober 12, 19550–2 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 1–3–0
5TOctober 15, 19552–2 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 1–3–1
6LOctober 16, 19550–6 @ Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 1–4–1
7LOctober 19, 19552–6 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 1–5–1
8WOctober 22, 19553–2 New York Rangers (1955–56) 2–5–1
9WOctober 26, 19552–1 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 3–5–1
10WOctober 29, 19552–0 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 4–5–1
11WNovember 2, 19553–1 Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 5–5–1
12TNovember 3, 19553–3 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 5–5–2
13LNovember 5, 19550–3 New York Rangers (1955–56) 5–6–2
14LNovember 6, 19551–4 @ Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 5–7–2
15LNovember 11, 19550–2 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 5–8–2
16LNovember 12, 19552–3 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 5–9–2
17LNovember 13, 19551–4 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 5–10–2
18LNovember 16, 19552–3 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 5–11–2
19WNovember 19, 19553–2 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 6–11–2
20TNovember 20, 19551–1 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 6–11–3
21LNovember 24, 19552–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 6–12–3
22WNovember 26, 19557–4 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 7–12–3
23WNovember 27, 19552–1 @ Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 8–12–3
24TNovember 30, 19553–3 Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 8–12–4
25LDecember 3, 19551–3 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 8–13–4
26LDecember 4, 19550–5 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 8–14–4
27LDecember 7, 19551–3 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 8–15–4
28LDecember 8, 19551–3 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 8–16–4
29WDecember 10, 19556–1 New York Rangers (1955–56) 9–16–4
30TDecember 11, 19553–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 9–16–5
31LDecember 15, 19550–4 @ Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 9–17–5
32WDecember 17, 19555–1 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 10–17–5
33LDecember 18, 19551–4 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 10–18–5
34WDecember 24, 19555–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 11–18–5
35TDecember 25, 19551–1 @ Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 11–18–6
36WDecember 28, 19552–0 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 12–18–6
37LDecember 29, 19552–5 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 12–19–6
38TDecember 31, 19552–2 Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 12–19–7
39WJanuary 4, 19564–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 13–19–7
40WJanuary 7, 19566–2 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 14–19–7
41LJanuary 14, 19565–6 New York Rangers (1955–56) 14–20–7
42WJanuary 15, 19564–1 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 15–20–7
43LJanuary 18, 19562–3 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 15–21–7
44LJanuary 19, 19561–3 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 15–22–7
45WJanuary 21, 19564–2 Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 16–22–7
46LJanuary 22, 19561–4 @ Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 16–23–7
47WJanuary 25, 19563–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 17–23–7
48LJanuary 28, 19561–3 New York Rangers (1955–56) 17–24–7
49LJanuary 29, 19561–3 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 17–25–7
50LFebruary 1, 19562–5 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 17–26–7
51LFebruary 4, 19562–4 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 17–27–7
52LFebruary 5, 19562–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 17–28–7
53TFebruary 8, 19561–1 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 17–28–8
54TFebruary 9, 19561–1 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 17–28–9
55WFebruary 11, 19565–0 New York Rangers (1955–56) 18–28–9
56TFebruary 12, 19561–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 18–28–10
57WFebruary 15, 19561–0 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 19–28–10
58LFebruary 16, 19561–8 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 19–29–10
59LFebruary 18, 19561–6 Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 19–30–10
60WFebruary 22, 19564–2 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 20–30–10
61WFebruary 24, 19562–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 21–30–10
62LFebruary 25, 19561–3 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 21–31–10
63WFebruary 29, 19564–1 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 22–31–10
64TMarch 3, 19562–2 Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 22–31–11
65TMarch 4, 19562–2 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 22–31–12
66LMarch 8, 19563–4 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 22–32–12
67WMarch 10, 19565–2 New York Rangers (1955–56) 23–32–12
68LMarch 11, 19562–4 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 23–33–12
69TMarch 17, 19561–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 23–33–13
70WMarch 18, 19562–0 @ Detroit Red Wings (1955–56) 24–33–13

PlayoffsEdit

Detroit Red Wings 4, Toronto Maple Leafs 1Edit

Player StatsEdit

Regular SeasonEdit

Scoring
Player GP G A Pts PIM
Tod Sloan 70 37 29 66 100
George Armstrong 67 16 32 48 97
Dick Duff 69 18 19 37 74
Rudy Migay 70 12 16 28 52
Ron Stewart 69 13 14 27 35
Billy Harris 70 9 13 22 8
Sid Smith 55 4 17 21 8
Hugh Bolton 67 4 16 20 65
Earl Balfour 59 14 5 19 40
Jim Morrison 63 2 17 19 77
Gord Hannigan 48 8 7 15 40
Ron Hurst 50 7 5 12 62
Marc Reaume 48 0 12 12 50
Eric Nesterenko 40 4 6 10 65
Brian Cullen 21 2 6 8 8
Jimmy Thomson 62 0 7 7 96
Gerry James 46 3 3 6 50
Tim Horton 35 0 5 5 36
Larry Cahan 21 0 2 2 46
Bill Burega 4 0 1 1 4
Jack Bionda 13 0 1 1 18
Joe Klukay 18 0 1 1 2
Ray Gariepy 1 0 0 0 4
Al MacNeil 1 0 0 0 2
Barry Cullen 3 0 0 0 4
Dave Reid 4 0 0 0 0
Willie Marshall 6 0 0 0 0
Bob Bailey 6 0 0 0 6
Lefty Wilson 1 0 0 0 0
Ed Chadwick 5 0 0 0 0
Gilles Mayer 6 0 0 0 0
Harry Lumley 59 0 0 0 2
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
Harry Lumley 3527 59 21 28 10 157 2.67 3
Ed Chadwick 300 5 2 0 3 3 0.60 2
Gilles Mayer 360 6 1 5 0 18 3.00 0
Lefty Wilson 13 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Team: 4200 70 24 33 13 178 2.54 5

PlayoffsEdit

Scoring
Player GP G A Pts PIM
George Armstrong 5 4 2 6 0
Dick Duff 5 1 4 5 2
Jimmy Thomson 5 0 3 3 10
Ron Stewart 5 1 1 2 2
Ron Hurst 3 0 2 2 4
Marc Reaume 5 0 2 2 6
Brian Cullen 5 1 0 1 2
Billy Harris 5 1 0 1 4
Gerry James 5 1 0 1 8
Sid Smith 5 1 0 1 0
Earl Balfour 3 0 1 1 2
Hugh Bolton 5 0 1 1 0
Tim Horton 2 0 0 0 4
Tod Sloan 2 0 0 0 5
Gord Hannigan 4 0 0 0 4
Rudy Migay 5 0 0 0 6
Jim Morrison 5 0 0 0 4
Harry Lumley 5 0 0 0 2
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
Harry Lumley 304 5 1 4 13 2.57 1
Team: 304 5 1 4 13 2.57 1

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Awards and RecordsEdit

TransactionsEdit

GalleryEdit

See AlsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1955-56 Toronto Maple Leafs Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com. hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-26.
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Bold indicates Stanley Cup Championship
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ArenasMutual Street Arena • Maple Leaf Gardens • Scotiabank Centre
AffiliatesToronto Marlies (AHL) • Reading Royals (ECHL)
RivalriesMontreal Canadiens • Philadelphia Flyers • Ottawa Senators
OtherToronto Blueshirts • Toronto Arenas • Toronto St. Patricks • Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.
Stanley Cup Championships (13)1918 • 1922 • 1932 • 1942 • 1945 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1951 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1967
Division Championships (5)1932–33 • 1933–34 • 1934–35 • 1937–38 • 1999–00
1955–56 NHL season by team
TeamsBoston • Chicago • Detroit • Montreal • New York • Toronto
See alsoAll-Star Game • 1956 Stanley Cup Finals
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