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The 2005–06 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 89th season of the franchise, 79th season as the Maple Leafs. This season marked the first time since the 1997–98 season that the team did not make the playoffs.
2005–06 Toronto Maple Leafs | |
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Division | 4th Northeast |
Conference | 9th Eastern |
2005–06 record | 41–33–8 |
Home record | 26–12–3 |
Road record | 15–21–5 |
Goals for | 254 |
Goals against | 263 |
Team information | |
General manager | John Ferguson Jr. |
Coach | Pat Quinn |
Captain | Mats Sundin |
Alternate captains | Tomas Kaberle Bryan McCabe |
Arena | Air Canada Centre |
Average attendance | 19,408 |
Minor league affiliate(s) | Toronto Marlies Pensacola Ice Pilots |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Mats Sundin (31) |
Assists | Bryan McCabe (49) |
Points | Mats Sundin (78) |
Penalty minutes | Bryan McCabe (116) |
Plus/minus | Alexei Ponikarovsky (+15) |
Wins | Ed Belfour (22) |
Goals against average | Jean-Sebastien Aubin (2.21) |
Key dates prior to the start of the season:
The Maple Leafs would go on to lead all 30 teams with most power-play goals scored during the regular season, with 107.[1] Captain Mats Sundin, who scored only 13 goals in his first 49 games of the season, scored 18 goals in his final 21 games, for the 12th 30-goal season of his career. The 32-year-old veteran Eric Lindros, signed by the Maple Leafs on August 11, 2005, had a solid start to the season, scoring seven goals in his first eight games. However, wrist injuries would limit him to 33 games played for the year; he finished with 11 goals and 11 assists for 22 points. Tomas Kaberle, Bryan McCabe and Darcy Tucker would all have career years, finishing with 68, 67 and 61 points, respectively.
Defensively, the Maple Leafs finished 21st out of 30 in goaltending, allowing 263 goals (excluding seven shootout goals allowed). It was the most goals allowed by a Maple Leafs team since the 1996–97 squad allowed 273. Toronto finished 26th in power-play goals allowed, with 99 and 24th in penalty killing, with 80.04%. While goaltender Jean-Sebastien Aubin posted a 9–0–2 record with a .924 save percentage and a 2.22 goals against average (GAA), this was at the end of the season, and it proved too little too late to get the Leafs into the playoffs. Starter Ed Belfour finished with a .892 save percentage and a 3.29 GAA with one shutout, while Mikael Tellqvist posted a save percentage of 3.13, with a GAA of 3.13. Furthermore, for the first time since the 1988–89 season, Belfour did not record a shutout during the regular season.
The Maple Leafs finished the regular season with a 41–33–8 record for 90 points, two points behind the Tampa Bay Lightning, who captured the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference. Their ninth-place finish meant that the Maple Leafs would miss the playoffs for the first time since 1998. Throughout the season, Toronto struggled against their provincial and divisional rivals, the Ottawa Senators, winning only one game out of eight meetings with a 1–5–2 record. Excluding shootout goals, the Maple Leafs were outscored 39 to 19 and were shut-out twice. Goaltender Ed Belfour went 0–5–2 against the Senators with 34 goals allowed, a 5.20 GAA and a save percentage of .834.
No. | CR | GP | W | L | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | 1 | Ottawa Senators | 82 | 52 | 21 | 9 | 314 | 211 | 113 |
2 | 4 | Buffalo Sabres | 82 | 52 | 24 | 6 | 281 | 239 | 110 |
3 | 7 | Montreal Canadiens | 82 | 42 | 31 | 9 | 243 | 247 | 93 |
4 | 9 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 82 | 41 | 33 | 8 | 257 | 270 | 90 |
5 | 13 | Boston Bruins | 82 | 29 | 37 | 16 | 230 | 266 | 74 |
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Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime/Shootout loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
R | Div | GP | W | L | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | Z- Ottawa Senators | NE | 82 | 52 | 21 | 9 | 314 | 211 | 113 |
2 | Y- Carolina Hurricanes | SE | 82 | 52 | 22 | 8 | 294 | 260 | 112 |
3 | Y- New Jersey Devils | AT | 82 | 46 | 27 | 9 | 242 | 229 | 101 |
4 | X- Buffalo Sabres | NE | 82 | 52 | 24 | 6 | 242 | 239 | 110 |
5 | X- Philadelphia Flyers | AT | 82 | 45 | 26 | 11 | 267 | 259 | 101 |
6 | X- New York Rangers | AT | 82 | 44 | 26 | 12 | 257 | 215 | 100 |
7 | X- Montreal Canadiens | NE | 82 | 42 | 31 | 9 | 243 | 247 | 93 |
8 | X- Tampa Bay Lightning | SE | 82 | 43 | 33 | 6 | 252 | 260 | 92 |
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9 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NE | 82 | 41 | 33 | 8 | 257 | 270 | 90 |
10 | Atlanta Thrashers | SE | 82 | 41 | 33 | 8 | 281 | 275 | 90 |
11 | Florida Panthers | SE | 82 | 37 | 34 | 11 | 240 | 257 | 85 |
12 | New York Islanders | AT | 82 | 36 | 40 | 6 | 230 | 278 | 78 |
13 | Boston Bruins | NE | 82 | 29 | 37 | 16 | 230 | 266 | 74 |
14 | Washington Capitals | SE | 82 | 29 | 41 | 12 | 237 | 306 | 70 |
15 | Pittsburgh Penguins | AT | 82 | 22 | 46 | 14 | 244 | 316 | 58 |
Divisions: AT – Atlantic, NE – Northeast, SE – Southeast
Z – Clinched Conference; Y – Clinched Division; X – Clinched Playoff spot
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October: 6–4–2 (home: 4–3–1; road: 2–1–1)
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November: 8–5–1 (home: 5–1–0; road: 3–4–1)
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December: 8–5–0 (home: 5–3–0; road: 3–2–0)
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January: 3–8–2 (home: 1–2–1; road: 2–6–1)
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February: 2–4–0 (home: 2–2–0; road: 0–2–0)
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March: 7–6–1 (home: 4–1–0; road: 3–5–1)
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April: 7–1–2 (home: 5–0–1; road: 2–1–1)
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Legend:
Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Overtime/shootout loss (1 point) |
No. | Player | Pos | Regular season | |||||
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GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | |||
13 | Mats Sundin | C | 70 | 31 | 47 | 78 | 7 | 58 |
24 | Bryan McCabe | D | 73 | 19 | 49 | 68 | −1 | 116 |
15 | Tomas Kaberle | D | 82 | 9 | 58 | 67 | −1 | 46 |
16 | Darcy Tucker | C | 74 | 28 | 33 | 61 | −12 | 100 |
41 | Jason Allison | C | 66 | 17 | 43 | 60 | −18 | 76 |
10 | Alexander Steen | C | 75 | 18 | 27 | 45 | −9 | 42 |
42 | Kyle Wellwood | C | 81 | 11 | 34 | 45 | 0 | 14 |
23 | Alexei Ponikarovsky | LW | 81 | 21 | 17 | 38 | 15 | 68 |
92 | Jeff O'Neill | RW | 74 | 19 | 19 | 38 | −19 | 64 |
80 | Nik Antropov | RW | 57 | 12 | 19 | 31 | 13 | 56 |
18 | Chad Kilger | C | 79 | 17 | 11 | 28 | −6 | 63 |
14 | Matt Stajan | C | 80 | 15 | 12 | 27 | 5 | 50 |
88 | Eric Lindros | C | 33 | 11 | 11 | 22 | −3 | 43 |
28 | Tie Domi | RW | 77 | 5 | 11 | 16 | −10 | 109 |
22 | Ken Klee‡ | D | 56 | 3 | 12 | 15 | −1 | 66 |
25 | Alexander Khavanov | D | 64 | 6 | 6 | 12 | −11 | 60 |
39 | Clarke Wilm | C | 60 | 1 | 7 | 8 | −15 | 43 |
8 | Aki Berg | D | 75 | 0 | 8 | 8 | −5 | 56 |
45 | Carlo Colaiacovo | D | 21 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 17 |
37 | Ian White | D | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
21 | Mariusz Czerkawski‡ | RW | 19 | 4 | 1 | 5 | −2 | 6 |
53 | John Pohl | RW | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
3 | Wade Belak | D | 55 | 0 | 3 | 3 | −13 | 109 |
22 | Luke Richardson† | D | 21 | 0 | 3 | 3 | −1 | 41 |
48 | Jeremy Williams | C | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
20 | Ed Belfour | G | 49 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |
43 | Jay Harrison | D | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
44 | Staffan Kronwall | D | 34 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 14 |
56 | Andy Wozniewski | D | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −8 | 13 |
30 | Jean-Sebastien Aubin | G | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
36 | Brendan Bell | D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
46 | Ben Ondrus | LW | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −10 | 18 |
26 | Nathan Perrott‡ | RW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 2 |
19 | Aleksander Suglobov† | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
32 | Mikael Tellqvist | G | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No. | Player | Regular season | |||||||||
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GP | W | L | OT | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI | ||
20 | Ed Belfour | 49 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 1476 | 159 | 3.29 | .892 | 0 | 2897 |
32 | Mikael Tellqvist | 25 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 697 | 73 | 3.13 | .895 | 2 | 1399 |
30 | Jean-Sebastien Aubin | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 330 | 25 | 2.22 | .924 | 1 | 677 |
Type | Award/honour | Recipient | Ref |
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League (in-season) |
NHL Defensive Player of the Week | Bryan McCabe (October 17) | [5] |
NHL Offensive Player of the Week | Bryan McCabe (November 21) | [6] | |
Team | Molson Cup | Mats Sundin | [7] |
Regular Season | |||||||||
Player | Milestone | Reached | |||||||
Ed Belfour | Passes Terry Sawchuk for second all-time in wins by a goaltender | December 19, 2005 | |||||||
Tie Domi | 1,000th NHL Game | March 3, 2006[8] | |||||||
Jay Harrison | 1st NHL Assist | January 30, 2006 | |||||||
Staffan Kronwall | 1st NHL Game | October 29, 2005 | |||||||
Staffan Kronwall | 1st NHL Assist | February 7, 2006 | |||||||
Alexei Ponikarovsky | 1st 20 Goal Season | ||||||||
Alexander Steen | 1st NHL Goal | October 8, 2005 | |||||||
Mikael Tellqvist | 1st NHL Shutout | December 1, 2005 | |||||||
Kyle Wellwood | 1st NHL Multi-Point Game | October 14, 2005 | |||||||
The Maple Leafs were involved in the following transactions from February 17, 2005, the day after the 2004–05 NHL season was officially cancelled, through June 19, 2006, the day of the deciding game of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals.[9]
Date | Details | Ref | |
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July 30, 2005 | To Carolina Hurricanes Conditional 4th-round pick in 2006 |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Jeff O'Neill |
[10] |
August 24, 2005 | To St. Louis Blues Future considerations |
To Toronto Maple Leafs John Pohl |
[11] |
November 6, 2005 | To Dallas Stars Nathan Perrott |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Conditional 6th-round pick in 2006[lower-alpha 1] |
[12] |
March 8, 2006 | To Columbus Blue Jackets Conditional draft pick[lower-alpha 2] |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Luke Richardson |
[13] |
March 8, 2006 | To New Jersey Devils Ken Klee |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Aleksander Suglobov |
[14] |
June 15, 2006 | To Boston Bruins Rights to Petr Tenkrat |
To Toronto Maple Leafs 7th-round pick in 2006 |
[15] |
Date | Player | Former team | Term | Via | Ref |
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August 5, 2005 | Jason Allison | Los Angeles Kings | 1-year | Free agency | [16] |
August 10, 2005 | Alexander Khavanov | St. Louis Blues | 1-year | Free agency | [17] |
August 11, 2005 | Eric Lindros | New York Rangers | 1-year | Free agency | [18] |
August 12, 2005 | Mike Hoffman | Cleveland Barons (AHL) | 1-year | Free agency | [19] |
August 18, 2005 | Jean-Sebastien Aubin | St. John's Maple Leafs (AHL) | 1-year | Free agency | [20] |
September 9, 2005 | Mariusz Czerkawski | Djurgardens IF (SHL) | 1-year | Free agency | [21] |
September 10, 2005 | Brad Brown | Buffalo Sabres | 1-year | Free agency | [22] |
March 8, 2006 | Alex Foster | Bowling Green State University (CCHA) | Free agency | [23] | |
April 18, 2006 | Chris Harrington | University of Minnesota (WCHA) | Free agency | [24] |
Date | Player | New team | Via[lower-alpha 3] | Ref |
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August 1, 2005 | Joe Nieuwendyk | Florida Panthers | Free agency (III) | [26] |
Owen Nolan[lower-alpha 4] | Release | [28][29] | ||
Gary Roberts | Florida Panthers | Free agency (III) | [26] | |
August 3, 2005 | Brian Leetch | Boston Bruins | Free agency (III) | [30] |
August 15, 2005 | Jason MacDonald | Boston Bruins | Free agency | [31] |
August 16, 2005 | Alexander Mogilny | New Jersey Devils | Free agency (III) | [32] |
August 23, 2005 | Harold Druken | EHC Basel (NLA) | Free agency (UFA) | [33] |
September 21, 2005 | Regan Kelly | Sheffield Steelers (EIHL) | Free agency (UFA) | [34] |
September 22, 2005 | Nathan Barrett | Norfolk Admirals (AHL) | Free agency (UFA) | [35] |
January 25, 2006 | Karel Pilar | HC Sparta Praha (ELH) | Free agency (II)[lower-alpha 5] | [37] |
March 8, 2006 | Mariusz Czerkawski | Boston Bruins | Waivers | [38] |
April 26, 2006 | Aki Berg | HC TPS (Liiga) | Free agency | [39] |
Date | Player | Term | Contract type | Ref |
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July 28, 2005 | John Mitchell | multi-year | Entry-level | [40] |
July 30, 2005 | Jeff O'Neill | multi-year | Re-signing | [10] |
August 5, 2005 | Tie Domi | 2-year | Re-signing | [41] |
August 9, 2005 | Staffan Kronwall | multi-year | Entry-level | [42] |
Alexander Steen | multi-year | Entry-level | [42] | |
August 10, 2005 | Wade Belak | 2-year | Re-signing | [43] |
Aki Berg | 1-year | Re-signing | [43] | |
August 12, 2005 | Nik Antropov | 1-year | Re-signing | [44] |
Roman Kukumberg | 1-year | Entry-level | [45] | |
Clarke Wilm | 1-year | Re-signing | [44] | |
September 7, 2005 | Alexei Ponikarovsky | 2-year | Re-signing | [46] |
September 21, 2005 | Nathan Perrott | Re-signing | [47] | |
December 19, 2005 | Justin Pogge | 3-year | Entry-level | [48] |
February 11, 2006 | Tomas Kaberle | 5-year | Extension | [49] |
April 12, 2006 | Jean-Sebastien Aubin | 1-year | Re-signing | [50] |
April 15, 2006 | Robbie Earl | 3-year | Entry-level | [51] |
April 17, 2006 | Chad Kilger | 3-year | Re-signing | [52] |
June 8, 2006 | Mikael Tellqvist | 1-year | Option exercised | [53] |
The 2005 NHL Entry Draft was the 43rd NHL Entry Draft. As a lockout cancelled the 2004–05 NHL season, the draft order was determined by lottery on July 22, 2005. Teams were assigned 1 to 3 balls based on their playoff appearances and first overall draft picks from the past three years. According to the draft order, the selection worked its way up to 30 as usual; then instead of repeating the order as in past years, the draft "snaked" back down to the team with the first pick. Therefore, the team with the first pick overall would not pick again until the 60th pick. The team with the 30th pick would also get the 31st pick. The draft was only seven rounds in length, compared to nine rounds in years past. The labor dispute caused the shortened draft.
Round | # | Player | Position | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team (League) |
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1 | 21 | Tuukka Rask | Goaltender | ![]() |
Ilves Jr. (Finland) |
3 | 82 | Phil Oreskovic | Defence | ![]() |
Brampton Battalion (OHL) |
5 | 153 | Alex Berry | Right wing | ![]() |
Bruins Jr. (EJHL) |
6 | 173 | Johan Dahlberg | Left wing | ![]() |
Modo Hockey Jr. (Sweden) |
7 | 216 | Anton Stralman | Defence | ![]() |
Skovde (Sweden 2) |
7 | 228 | Chad Rau | Centre | ![]() |
Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) |
The Maple Leafs were also affiliated with the Pensacola Ice Pilots of the ECHL.[54]
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