Can you picture a current Montreal Canadien wearing jersey number 9 or 4? -Walter Rigobon

...Or a Boston player wearing number 4? Or a Black Hawk wearing number 9? Richard, Beliveau, Orr and Hull. Yet the Toronto Maple Leafs one of the top two most storied franchises in the history of hockey continues to permit the use of numbers 14 and 27 emblematic of Keon, Mahovlich and Sittler. The Leafs are the only Original Six Team to not retire jersey numbers preferring only to honor players as per the banners hanging in the ACC. Noticeably missing is the greatest player in Toronto Maple Leaf history, Dave Keon. Keon led the team to 4 Stanley Cups in the 1960's. He refuses to participate in any ceremony that merely honors his sweater number. It is time for the Toronto Maple Leafs to lift "The Curse of Davey Keon" and retire Number 14, once and for all. And they should retire the numbers of the other Leaf greats that have been so honored. Imagine giving a Detroit Red Wing call-up the number 9 to wear? Keon was the Jonathan Toews of his day. Nobody played a better 200 foot game, and he played his best when the game mattered the most. In game 7 of the 1964 semi-final in the fabled Forum, against the hated Habs, he played one of the greatest games ever, by any NHL player!

Leafs won 3-1, and Davey Keon scored all three Leaf goals.

One on a power-play!

One short-handed!

...and the third into an empty net!

It's about time that MLSE move to rethink their tired policies and show some class and respect...

BRING BACK DAVEY...AND RETIRE NUMBER 14.

- Walter Rigobon