Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Ltd., the group who owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, last month filed a trademark registration with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office for a centennial “Leafs Nation” logo to be used throughout 2017 (application number 1568062 – look it up for yourself).
This logo has yet to be unveiled by the club but should be within the next year.
It’s very likely that this logo will be used only to celebrate the vast Maple Leafs fan base during the franchise’s 100th season rather than be the logo the club uses to celebrate the anniversary of the team itself… at least we hope so. If this is the team centennial patch, I gotta say it’s a very weak logo for such a large anniversary.
The Toronto Maple Leafs franchise can trace their roots back to the 1912/13 NHA season when they began as the Toronto Blueshirts (which would make the upcoming year a centennial season as well). After a dispute between the league and the owner of the Blueshirts the other team owners started the NHL just to get away from him; Blueshirts players made up the Toronto entry in the new league during the 1917 season.
After a season as the Toronto Hockey Club and another as the Toronto Arena Hockey Club the franchise was disbanded and another franchise was created known as the Toronto St. Patricks. After 8 seasons as the St. Pats the team was re-named as the Maple Leafs in 1927.
Despite the disbanding after the 1919 season the Toronto Maple Leafs recognize that first season in the NHL (1917/18) as their inaugural year. In reality the link to that 1917/18 team is the same as the link to the 1912/13 team, why the Leafs choose to acknowledge one inaccuracy and not the other has never been explained.
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This isn’t to large of an anniversary, there hasn’t been much going on for half of the teams history, lets say since 67? That’ll mark the 50th anniversary of no Stanley Cup anniversary.
The Leaf Haters really need to be more creative
The only reason they don’t acknowledge the BlueShirts history is because they’re ashamed of Eddie Livingstone, the BlueShirts owner. The Arenas franchise itself never folded, it simply withdrew from the league until new ownership could be found, which turned out to be before the next season.
Personally, I’m just surprised that they’re already designing logos five years ahead of time. But then again, SportsLogos says that the Canadiens’ centennial logo was unveiled around 2005, four years before the celebration. It just seems to me like it’s a bit early to begin something like this.
Chris, I don’t hate the Leafs. They haven’t been significant enough to hate. Trust me, I’ve been there…..Go Wings! 🙂
Pretty good anniversary logo. But some colour wouldn’t hurt.
I just give props to the fans of Toronto to stick with the hockey club. Only sports i like in Toronto is basketball and baseball, besides that its Habs all in.