1994–95 Toronto Maple Leafs season

1994–95 Toronto Maple Leafs
Division	4th Central
Conference	5th Western
1994–95 record	21–19–8
Home record	15–7–2
Road record	6–12–6
Goals for	135
Goals against	146
Team information
General Manager	Cliff Fletcher
Coach	Pat Burns
Captain	Doug Gilmour
Arena	Maple Leaf Gardens
Team leaders
Goals	Mats Sundin (23)
Assists	Mike Ridley (27)
Points	Mats Sundin (47)
Penalties in minutes	Warren Rychel (101)
Plus/minus	Randy Wood (+7)
Wins	Felix Potvin (15)
Goals against average	Damian Rhodes (2.68)

Prior to the 1994–95 season, franchise player and fan favorite Wendel Clark was sent to the Quebec Nordiques in a blockbuster trade. Clark, along with defenceman Sylvain Lefebvre and Toronto's second pick in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, Landon Wilson, were traded to the Nordiques on June 28, 1994, in exchange for forward Mats Sundin, defenceman Garth Butcher and Quebec's first pick in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, Todd Warriner. In Clark's absence, the gritty and dependable veteran forward Doug Gilmour was named team captain.

After finishing fourth in 1992–93 and third in 1993–94, the Maple Leafs fell to fifth place in the Western Conference in 1994–95 and, for the first time in three seasons, they allowed more goals than they scored. Throughout the regular season, Toronto never won more than two games in a row, and finished just two games above .500. In addition, no Toronto player recorded a hat trick. To toughen up their lineup, the Leafs signed Warren Rychel from the Los Angeles Kings midway through the regular season, and on April 7, 1995, they traded center Mike Eastwood and a third-round pick in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for right wing Tie Domi.

Toronto was the only Western Conference team to score at least one goal in all 48 of its regular-season games in 1994–95 (the Quebec Nordiques and the Buffalo Sabres were the only Eastern Conference teams to accomplish this feat in 1994–95). The Maple Leafs finished sixth in the league in penalty-killing (84.86%) and allowed the most empty-net goals of any team in the league (8).

Offseason

NHL draft

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	College/junior/club team
1	16	Eric Fichaud (G)	Canada	Chicoutimi Saguenéens (QMJHL)
2	48	Sean Haggerty (Left wing)	United States	Detroit Junior Red Wings (OHL)

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Regular season

The Maple Leafs tied the Dallas Stars and the Hartford Whalers for the lowest shooting percentage during the Regular season, with just 135 goals on 1,520 shots (8.9%)^[2]

Season standings

Central Division
No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	1	Detroit Red Wings	48	33	11	4	180	117	70
2	2	St. Louis Blues	48	28	15	5	178	135	61
3	4	Chicago Blackhawks	48	24	19	5	156	115	53
4	5	Toronto Maple Leafs	48	21	19	8	135	146	50
5	8	Dallas Stars	48	17	23	8	136	135	42
6	10	Winnipeg Jets	48	16	25	7	157	177	39

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Note: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Western Conference^[4]
R		Div	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	p – Detroit Red Wings	CEN	48	33	11	4	180	117	70
2	x – Calgary Flames	PAC	48	24	17	7	163	135	55
3	St. Louis Blues	CEN	48	28	15	5	178	135	61
4	Chicago Blackhawks	CEN	48	24	19	5	156	115	53
5	Toronto Maple Leafs	CEN	48	21	19	8	135	146	50
6	Vancouver Canucks	PAC	48	18	18	12	153	148	48
7	San Jose Sharks	PAC	48	19	25	4	129	161	42
8	Dallas Stars	CEN	48	17	23	8	136	135	42

9	Los Angeles Kings	PAC	48	16	23	9	142	174	41
10	Winnipeg Jets	CEN	48	16	25	7	157	177	39
11	Edmonton Oilers	PAC	48	17	27	4	136	183	38
12	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	PAC	48	16	27	5	125	164	37

Divisions: CEN – Central, PAC – Pacific

bold – Qualified for playoffs; x – Won division; p – Won Presidents' Trophy

Schedule and results

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	January 20, 1995	3–3 OT	@ Los Angeles Kings (1994–95)	0–0–1
2	L	January 21, 1995	2–3	@ San Jose Sharks (1994–95)	0–1–1
3	W	January 25, 1995	6–2	Vancouver Canucks (1994–95)	1–1–1
4	L	January 27, 1995	1–4	@ Chicago Blackhawks (1994–95)	1–2–1
5	W	January 28, 1995	2–1	Calgary Flames (1994–95)	2–2–1
6	W	January 30, 1995	2–1	@ Dallas Stars (1994–95)	3–2–1
7	T	February 1, 1995	4–4 OT	@ Vancouver Canucks (1994–95)	3–2–2
8	L	February 3, 1995	3–5	@ Edmonton Oilers (1994–95)	3–3–2
9	L	February 4, 1995	1–4	@ Calgary Flames (1994–95)	3–4–2
10	W	February 6, 1995	7–3	San Jose Sharks (1994–95)	4–4–2
11	T	February 8, 1995	3–3 OT	Dallas Stars (1994–95)	4–4–3
12	W	February 10, 1995	2–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1994–95)	5–4–3
13	L	February 11, 1995	2–5	Los Angeles Kings (1994–95)	5–5–3
14	W	February 13, 1995	4–2	Chicago Blackhawks (1994–95)	6–5–3
15	L	February 15, 1995	1–4	Edmonton Oilers (1994–95)	6–6–3
16	W	February 18, 1995	3–1	St. Louis Blues (1994–95)	7–6–3
17	L	February 20, 1995	2–4	Detroit Red Wings (1994–95)	7–7–3
18	L	February 22, 1995	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (1994–95)	7–8–3
19	W	February 23, 1995	3–1	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1994–95)	8–8–3
20	W	February 25, 1995	5–2	Winnipeg Jets (1994–95)	9–8–3
21	L	February 27, 1995	2–3	@ St. Louis Blues (1994–95)	9–9–3
22	L	March 2, 1995	3–4	San Jose Sharks (1994–95)	9–10–3
23	W	March 4, 1995	3–2	Calgary Flames (1994–95)	10–10–3
24	W	March 8, 1995	3–2	Dallas Stars (1994–95)	11–10–3
25	T	March 11, 1995	2–2 OT	Chicago Blackhawks (1994–95)	11–10–4
26	L	March 13, 1995	1–4	Los Angeles Kings (1994–95)	11–11–4
27	W	March 15, 1995	2–1	@ San Jose Sharks (1994–95)	12–11–4
28	T	March 17, 1995	3–3 OT	@ Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1994–95)	12–11–5
29	W	March 18, 1995	5–3	@ Los Angeles Kings (1994–95)	13–11–5
30	L	March 21, 1995	1–3	@ Vancouver Canucks (1994–95)	13–12–5
31	W	March 24, 1995	3–2	Winnipeg Jets (1994–95)	14–12–5
32	T	March 25, 1995	3–3 OT	@ Winnipeg Jets (1994–95)	14–12–6
33	W	March 27, 1995	4–3	Edmonton Oilers (1994–95)	15–12–6
34	T	March 31, 1995	3–3 OT	@ Chicago Blackhawks (1994–95)	15–12–7
35	L	April 3, 1995	2–5	@ St. Louis Blues (1994–95)	15–13–7
36	L	April 5, 1995	4–6	St. Louis Blues (1994–95)	15–14–7
37	L	April 7, 1995	2–4	Detroit Red Wings (1994–95)	15–15–7
38	W	April 8, 1995	4–3	Winnipeg Jets (1994–95)	16–15–7
39	W	April 14, 1995	2–1	Dallas Stars (1994–95)	17–15–7
40	L	April 15, 1995	1–5	@ Winnipeg Jets (1994–95)	17–16–7
41	W	April 17, 1995	3–1	@ Chicago Blackhawks (1994–95)	18–16–7
42	W	April 19, 1995	3–2	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1994–95)	19–16–7
43	L	April 21, 1995	1–3	@ St. Louis Blues (1994–95)	19–17–7
44	L	April 22, 1995	4–6	@ Dallas Stars (1994–95)	19–18–7
45	W	April 26, 1995	5–2	Vancouver Canucks (1994–95)	20–18–7
46	T	April 29, 1995	2–2 OT	@ Calgary Flames (1994–95)	20–18–8
47	W	May 1, 1995	6–5	@ Edmonton Oilers (1994–95)	21–18–8
48	L	May 3, 1995	1–6	@ Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1994–95)	21–19–8

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
Sundin, MatsMats Sundin	47	23	24	47	14	-5	9	0	4
Andreychuk, DaveDave Andreychuk	48	22	16	38	34	-7	8	0	2
Ridley, MikeMike Ridley	48	10	27	37	14	1	2	2	1
Gilmour, DougDoug Gilmour	44	10	23	33	26	-5	3	0	1
Gill, ToddTodd Gill	47	7	25	32	64	-8	3	1	2
Wood, RandyRandy Wood	48	13	11	24	34	7	1	1	2
Gartner, MikeMike Gartner	38	12	8	20	6	0	2	1	1
Mironov, DmitriDmitri Mironov	33	5	12	17	28	6	2	0	0
Ellett, DaveDave Ellett	33	5	10	15	26	-6	3	0	1
Craig, MikeMike Craig	37	5	5	10	12	-21	1	0	1
Eastwood, MikeMike Eastwood	36	5	5	10	32	-12	0	0	0
Macoun, JamieJamie Macoun	46	2	8	10	75	-6	1	0	0
Jonsson, KennyKenny Jonsson	39	2	7	9	16	-8	0	0	1
Butcher, GarthGarth Butcher	45	1	7	8	59	-5	0	0	0
Rychel, WarrenWarren Rychel	26	1	6	7	101	1	0	0	0
Berg, BillBill Berg	32	5	1	6	26	-11	0	0	2
Hogue, BenoitBenoit Hogue	12	3	3	6	0	0	1	0	1
Yake, TerryTerry Yake	19	3	2	5	2	1	1	0	2
Borschevsky, NikolaiNikolai Borschevsky	19	0	5	5	0	3	0	0	0
Sutter, RichRich Sutter	18	0	3	3	10	-7	0	0	0
Ward, DixonDixon Ward	22	0	3	3	31	-4	0	0	0
DiPietro, PaulPaul DiPietro	12	1	1	2	6	-6	0	0	0
Berehowsky, DrakeDrake Berehowsky	25	0	2	2	15	-10	0	0	0
Jennings, GrantGrant Jennings	10	0	2	2	7	-6	0	0	0
Domi, TieTie Domi	9	0	1	1	31	1	0	0	0
Hendrickson, DarbyDarby Hendrickson	8	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	0
Manderville, KentKent Manderville	36	0	1	1	22	-2	0	0	0
Baumgartner, KenKen Baumgartner	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Belanger, KenKen Belanger	3	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0
Harlock, DavidDavid Harlock	1	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0
Martin, MattMatt Martin	15	0	0	0	13	2	0	0	0
Nedved, ZdenekZdenek Nedved	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Potvin, FelixFelix Potvin	36	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Rhodes, DamianDamian Rhodes	13	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Warriner, ToddTodd Warriner	5	0	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SV%
Potvin, FelixFelix Potvin	2144	36	15	13	7	104	2.91	1120	1016	.907
Rhodes, DamianDamian Rhodes	760	13	6	6	1	34	2.68	404	370	.916
Team:	2904	48	21	19	8	138	2.85	1524	1386	.909

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	PPG	GWG
Sundin, MatsMats Sundin	7	5	4	9	4	2	1
Gilmour, DougDoug Gilmour	7	0	6	6	6	0	0
Andreychuk, DaveDave Andreychuk	7	3	2	5	25	2	0
Ridley, MikeMike Ridley	7	3	1	4	2	1	1
Gartner, MikeMike Gartner	5	2	2	4	2	0	0
Mironov, DmitriDmitri Mironov	6	2	1	3	2	1	0
Macoun, JamieJamie Macoun	7	1	2	3	8	0	0
Gill, ToddTodd Gill	7	0	3	3	6	0	0
Wood, RandyRandy Wood	7	2	0	2	6	1	1
DiPietro, PaulPaul DiPietro	7	1	1	2	0	0	0
Ellett, DaveDave Ellett	7	0	2	2	0	0	0
Domi, TieTie Domi	7	1	0	1	0	0	0
Berg, BillBill Berg	7	0	1	1	4	0	0
Craig, MikeMike Craig	2	0	1	1	2	0	0
Butcher, GarthGarth Butcher	7	0	0	0	8	0	0
Hogue, BenoitBenoit Hogue	7	0	0	0	6	0	0
Jennings, GrantGrant Jennings	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jonsson, KennyKenny Jonsson	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manderville, KentKent Manderville	7	0	0	0	6	0	0
Potvin, FelixFelix Potvin	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rychel, WarrenWarren Rychel	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sutter, RichRich Sutter	4	0	0	0	2	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV	SV%
Potvin, FelixFelix Potvin	424	7	3	4	20	2.83	1	253	233	.921
Team:	424	7	3	4	20	2.83	1	253	233	.921

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Note:

Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Transactions

The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1994-95 season.

Trades

July 11, 1994	To Los Angeles Kings Yanic Perreault	To Toronto Maple Leafs 4th round pick in 1996 - Mikael Simons
August 10, 1994	To Dallas Stars Peter Zezel Grant Marshall	To Toronto Maple Leafs Compensation for Mike Craig
September 28, 1994	To Mighty Ducks of Anaheim David Sacco	To Toronto Maple Leafs Terry Yake
October 3, 1994	To Los Angeles Kings Eric Lacroix Chris Snell 4th round pick in 1996 - Eric Belanger	To Toronto Maple Leafs Dixon Ward Guy Leveque Shayne Toporowski Kelly Fairchild
February 10, 1995	To Washington Capitals 4th round pick in 1995 - Sebastien Charpentier	To Toronto Maple Leafs Warren Rychel
February 17, 1995	To Detroit Red Wings Chris Govedaris	To Toronto Maple Leafs Future considerations
March 13, 1995	To Tampa Bay Lightning Cash	To Toronto Maple Leafs Rich Sutter
April 6, 1995	To Calgary Flames Nikolai Borschevsky	To Toronto Maple Leafs 6th round pick in 1996 - Chris Bogas
April 6, 1995	To New York Islanders Eric Fichaud	To Toronto Maple Leafs Benoit Hogue 3rd round pick in 1995 - Ryan Pepperall 5th round pick in 1996 - Brandon Sugdon
April 6, 1995	To Montreal Canadiens 4th round pick in 1996 - Kim Staal	To Toronto Maple Leafs Paul DiPietro
April 7, 1995	To Detroit Red Wings Future considerations	To Toronto Maple Leafs Gord Kruppke
April 7, 1995	To Pittsburgh Penguins Drake Berehowsky	To Toronto Maple Leafs Grant Jennings
April 7, 1995	To Winnipeg Jets Mike Eastwood 3rd round pick in 1995 - Brad Isbister	To Toronto Maple Leafs Tie Domi
July 8, 1995	To Pittsburgh Penguins Dmitri Mironov 2nd round pick in 1996 - Josh DeWolf	To Toronto Maple Leafs Larry Murphy
July 8, 1995	To Philadelphia Flyers 5th round pick in 1996 - Per-Ragnar Bergquist	To Toronto Maple Leafs Rob Zettler
July 8, 1995	To Vancouver Canucks Mike Ridley	To Toronto Maple Leafs Sergio Momesso

Waivers

January 18, 1995	From Buffalo Sabres Randy Wood

Free agents

Player	Former team
Mike Craig	Dallas Stars
Jamie Heward	Undrafted free agent

Player	New team
Mike Krushelnyski	Detroit Red Wings
John Cullen	Pittsburgh Penguins
Mark Greig	Calgary Flames

Playoffs

Although the Maple Leafs were the underdogs against the fourth-place Chicago Blackhawks in the opening round of the 1995 Stanley Cup Playoffs, they won the first two games of the series at the United Center and went home to Maple Leaf Gardens for game three with two-games-to-none series lead. However, the Blackhawks played determinedly and won games three and four in Toronto to regain home-ice advantage in the series. Chicago then won game five, 4–2, and looked to clinch the series in game six back in Toronto. The Maple Leafs played a spirited game, going up 4–1 in the third period. The Blackhawks fought back with three consecutive goals to tie the game. At 10:00 of the first overtime period, Randy Wood scored his second goal of the game to give the Maple Leafs a 5–4 win. The victory tied the series at three games apiece and forced game seven back in Chicago. In game seven, Joe Murphy scored twice and Ed Belfour made 22 saves as Chicago advanced to the second round for the first time in three years with a 5–2 win.

Chicago vs. Toronto
Date	Away	Home
May 7	Toronto 5	3 Chicago
May 9	Toronto 3	0 Chicago
May 11	Chicago 3	2 Toronto
May 13	Chicago 3	1 Toronto
May 15	Toronto 2	4 Chicago
May 17	Chicago 4	5 Toronto	OT
May 19	Toronto 2	5 Chicago
Chicago wins series 4–3

Awards and records

Kenny Jonsson, Defence, NHL All-Rookie Team
Mats Sundin, Molson Cup (most game star selections for Toronto Maple Leafs)

Farm teams

The Maple Leafs farm team was the St. John's Maple Leafs in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Roster

1994-95 Toronto Maple Leafs

Goaltenders

1 – Damian Rhodes
29 – Felix Potvin

Defensemen

2 – Garth Butcher
3 – Grant Jennings
4 – Dave Ellett
15 – Dmitri Mironov
19 – Kenny Jonsson
23 – Todd Gill
28 – David Harlock
33 – Matt Martin
34 – Jamie Macoun
55 – Drake Berehowsky

Wingers

8 – Todd Warriner
9 – Mike Craig
10 – Bill Berg
11 – Mike Gartner
12 – Dixon Ward
14 – Dave Andreychuk
16 – Nikolai Borschevsky
20 – Rich Sutter
21 – Warren Rychel
22 – Ken Baumgartner
24 – Randy Wood
28 – Tie Domi
43 – Ken Belanger
45 – Zdenek Nedved

Centres

7 – Mike Ridley
13 – Mats Sundin
16 – Darby Hendrickson
18 – Kent Manderville
25 – Paul DiPietro
25 – Terry Yake
32 – Mike Eastwood
32 – Benoit Hogue
93 – Doug Gilmour - C
GM: Cliff Fletcher
Coach: Pat Burns

References

Maple Leafs on Hockey Database

↑ http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1994e.html
↑ http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/TOR/1995.html
↑ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al., eds. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
↑ "1994-1995 Conference Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". NHL.
↑ "1994-95 Toronto Maple Leafs Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-05-28.

1994–95 NHL season
Northeast	Boston Buffalo Hartford Montreal Ottawa Pittsburgh Quebec
Atlantic	Florida New Jersey NY Islanders NY Rangers Philadelphia Tampa Bay Washington
Central	Chicago Dallas Detroit St. Louis Toronto Winnipeg
Pacific	Anaheim Calgary Edmonton Los Angeles San Jose Vancouver
See also	Draft Supplemental Draft Lockout Legion of Doom Stanley Cup Playoffs Stanley Cup Finals

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