Bowie as the Thin White Duke at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto on 26 February 1976

They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.

, the Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships ( 11 ) of any NHL franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total NHL championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens ( 24 ) and Toronto Maple Leafs ( 13 ).

The Cougars were outscored 7 – 2 in the two-game series with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Needing a new starting goaltender after Hasek's retirement, the Red wings signed Curtis Joseph from the Toronto Maple Leafs to a three year, $ 24 million deal.

* Pat Quinn, Canadian hockey coach ( former coach of Toronto Maple Leafs and Team Canada )

Moon, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 1976

* 1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game.

On November 1, 1946, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, in a game the NBA now regards as the first played in its history.

He is also a devout fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs which stems from his shooting of Cinderella Man at Maple Leaf Gardens.

However, he performed very well in the playoffs, notably when he scored a hat trick in game seven of the Campbell Conference Finals against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

* November 1 – In the first Basketball Association of America game, the New York Knicks defeat the Toronto Huskies 68 – 66 at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.

** The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.

* As the show was produced in Toronto, there are numerous references to the city's professional sports teams, the Blue Jays and the Maple Leafs.

Muir was said to have been inspired to write this song by a large maple tree which stood on his street in front the Maple Cottage, a house at Memory Lane and Laing Street in Toronto.

On October 9, 1974, the Scouts hit the ice for the first time at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and lost 4 – 2 to the Maple Leafs.

Only three other major North American professional sports teams have accomplished this feat, the 1941 – 42 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 2004 Boston Red Sox ( from the Major League Baseball ), and the 2009 – 10 Philadelphia Flyers.

The team was upset in the quarterfinal round in overtime of game 7 by the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Instead, they were seeded fifth, and faced the fourth-seeded Toronto Maple Leafs.

They are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six, along with the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.

Rickard managed to get future legendary Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe to assemble the team.

On December 13, 1929, the New York Rangers became the first team in the NHL to travel by plane when they hired the Curtiss-Wright Corporation to fly them to Toronto for a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs which they would lose 7-6.

After a loss to the Bruins in the 1928 – 29 finals and a few mediocre seasons in the early 1930s, the Rangers, led by brothers Bill and Bun Cook on the right and left wings, respectively, and Frank Boucher at center, would defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1932 – 33 best-of-five finals, three games to one, to win their second Stanley Cup, exacting revenge on the Leafs ' " Kid line " of Busher Jackson, Joe Primeau, and Charlie Conacher.

The Detroit Red Wings disposed of the New York Americans in their first round best-of-three series two games to one ( even as the Americans had analytical and notorious ex-Bruins star Eddie Shore ) and the Toronto Maple Leafs ousted the Chicago Black Hawks two games to none.

The series then headed to Toronto where the Maple Leafs won the next two games, tying the series 2 – 2.

After a first-round bye, the Flyers easily swept the Toronto Maple Leafs and were presented with another New York – area team in the semifinals.

Hockey Night in Canada has its origins in the General Motors Hockey Broadcast which transmitted Saturday night hockey games of the Toronto Maple Leafs beginning in November 1931 over the Canadian National Railway radio network.

If a U. S .- based team ( located in either Boston, Chicago, Detroit or New York City ) was playing in Toronto on a particular Saturday night, thousands of fans in the U. S. city whose local team faced the Leafs would often listen to the CBC broadcast via skywave reception, with the game often drawing far more listeners during the HNIC broadcast period than any local station.

CBC will be limited in the number of games it can show per team so that the seven Canadian-based teams, particularly the Toronto Maple Leafs, can distribute more games to regional carriers, thereby increasing the value of their local packages.

Koby was recently released by the Toronto Blue Jays organization.

During the first Assemblies, theologians Vasileios Ioannidis and Amilkas Alivizatos contributed significantly to the debates that led to the drafting of the " Toronto Statement ", a foundational document which facilitated Eastern Orthodox participation in the organization and today it constitutes its ecclesiological charter.

While playing in Omaha, Frank Selke of the Toronto Maple Leafs organization noticed that Howe was not properly listed as Red Wings property.

He proposed worldwide standard time zones, designed Canada's first postage stamp, left a huge body of surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto.

It was originally conceived of as an organization for surveyors, civil engineers, and architects practising in and about Toronto, Ontario.

He eventually turned over the Suns ' presidency to his son Bryan ( who eventually left the organization to become general manager of the Toronto Raptors ).

Mulock was extremely active in both business and the community, being involved in the foundation of organizations as diverse as the Toronto-Dominion Bank, the Toronto Star, Toronto Wellesley Hospital, and Canada's first national peace organization.

It should not be confused with another organization, calling itself the Spelling Bee of Canada, which started in 1987 in Toronto, Ontario, and is now celebrating its 25th anniversary, and hosting a Canadian Invitational Bee in 2012, as well as organizing Provincial Bees across Canada, and the world.

Following the 2010 season, the Toronto Blue Jays signed a two-year contract extension with the Las Vegas 51s, stating that the team is pleased to continue their relationship with the organization.

For the next two years Alan Cumyn ran a group home in Toronto for the national youth volunteer organization Katimavik.

* The Church of Scientology is the only religious organization in Canada to be convicted on the charge of breaching the public trust: The Queen v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, et al.

Former members based in Toronto went on to help found Common Cause, an Ontario-based platformist organization.

The Toronto St. Patricks professional men's ice hockey team started as an amateur ice hockey organization.

The St. Pats organization had operated amateur hockey clubs in the Toronto area since the first decade of the 1900s, including the senior amateur St. Patricks team in the Ontario Hockey Association.

The earliest known secular organization in English Canada is the Toronto Freethought Association, founded in 1873 by a handful of secularists.

The organization has local chapters in Fredericton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, plus international chapters in the US and the UK.

The Board of Management for the Square is an ABC organization of the City of Toronto.

In 1975 the church sold the Sea Org's ships and moved the organization to land bases around the world, which as of 2003 were operating in Clearwater, Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Saint Hill Manor in the UK, and Sydney, with smaller offices in Budapest, Johannesburg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, and Toronto.

The organization has its headquarters in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and additional offices in New York City and Toronto.

Eventually, numerous licences were given to: Halifax — the Finlay MacDonald group — CJCH-TV ; Montreal — the Canadian Marconi Co .— CFCF-TV ; Ottawa — Ernie Bushnell's group — CJOH-TV ; Toronto — Baton — the Bassett group — CFTO-TV ; Winnipeg — the Moffat group — CJAY-TV ( CKY-TV ); Edmonton — the CBC ( CBXT ), ( which would relieve CFRN-TV of its CBC affiliation ); Calgary — the Love organization — CFCN-TV ; Vancouver — the Vantel group — CHAN-TV ( BCTV ).

Initially based in the San Francisco Bay area and Toronto the ET was to define itself as a public faction of the SL and sought to be readmitted to the ranks of the parent organization.

The Independent Order of Foresters ( IOF ) is a fraternal organization, now based in Toronto, Canada, and operating under the brand Foresters.

Kyle is a starting pitcher and is currently in the Toronto Blue Jays organization after coming over from the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2009 Roy Halladay trade.