Quote Originally Posted by AngeloV View Post
Great memory Ravi. I remember the Leafs using 3 goalies that season including Jeff Reese and Mark Laforest. Laforest owned the Blues that year (I believe the Leafs won the season series something like 6-2), but he was injured and not available. I think Reese won game 4 and then was injured in game 5 bringing back Bester. Always hated a sign near Ballard's old Bunker in the golds back then that read "BESTER IS BEST".
You are absolutely right about that season and the playoffs, AV. Also, Ballard died between Games 4 and 5 of that series as I recall. He wasn't around much, if at all, that season though as I recall him being in a hospital in the Bahamas (?) for quite some time. I believe that he even lost control of the team before he died as Don Giffin was running things. The Leafs were one of the highest scoring teams in the league that season but they also gave up a lot of goals which caught up to them late in the season and in the playoffs.