That was the Doug Carpenter team in 1989-1990 that finished 38-38-4. That .500 record actually was the best the Leafs had achieved since Sittler and McDonald were around in the late 1970's. The team was, as Ravi says, a high-scoring team led by Gary Leeman who scored 51-goals as well as Vincent Damphousse, Ed Olczyk and Daniel Marois who all scored more than thirty goals. They also got contribution from Wendel Clark (when healthy), Al Iafrate, Tom Kurvers, Mark Osborne, Tom Fergus and Lou Franceschetti. But, that team as Ravi points out couldn't play defense and Bester, Reese, LaForrest and poor Peter Ing were hung out to dry most nights. That team also had some real enforcers with Clark, John Kordic and Brian Curran. I think Curran finished with a whopping 300 PIM on defense. There's one famous brawl from December 1989 where Leeman takes about five minutes to begin a fight with Denis Savard of the Blackhawks. All of a sudden from nowhere comes Dave Manson who hits Leeman from behind and starts pounding him. CBC pans to the Leafs bench and there's Clark wanting to go over the boards, but is stopped by Kordic!

That team fell apart in 1990-1991 with the ownership mess and Leeman sleeping with Iafrate's wife.