The 1972–73 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 56th season in the
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...
(NHL). The Leafs slipped to sixth place in the East and missed the playoffs.
Offseason
Toronto lost
Bernie Parent
Bernard Marcel Parent (born April 3, 1945) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs, and also spent one seaso ...
,
Rick Ley
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,
Brad Selwood,
Guy Trottier and
Larry Pleau, who jumped to the new
World Hockey Association
The World Hockey Association (french: Association mondiale de hockey) was a professional ice hockey major league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979. It was the first major league to compete with the National Hockey League (NHL) ...
(WHA).
Regular season
Final standings
Record vs. opponents
Schedule and results
Player statistics
Regular season
;Scoring
;Goaltending
Awards and records
Transactions
The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the
1972–73 season.
Trades
Free agents
Draft picks
Toronto's draft picks at the
1972 NHL Amateur Draft
The 1972 NHL Amateur Draft was the 10th NHL Entry Draft. It was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.
The last active player in the NHL from this draft class was Richard Brodeur, who played his last NHL game in the 1987– ...
held at the
Queen Elizabeth Hotel
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in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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.
Farm teams
See also
*
1972–73 NHL season
References
*
External links
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Toronto Maple Leafs season, 1972-73
Toronto Maple Leafs seasons
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...