OK, so the Toronto Maple Leafs may have got spanked last night by the Carolina Hurricanes, but even the most depressed Leafs fans should find something to cheer about in Mike Leonetti’s new book MAPLE LEAFS TOP 100: Toronto’s Greatest Players of All Time.

A beautiful hardcover book full of colour photographs, MAPLE LEAFS TOP 100 explores the team’s rich history and profiles Toronto’s greatest players from 1927 to 2007, ranking them from one to 100.

One of the contributors to MAPLE LEAFS TOP 100, Doug Farraway (AKA “The Deacon"), has posted a great article about his involvement in the book on his Fan 590 blog:

A year ago I was asked along with 13 other gentlemen to choose a top 1 hundred Maple Leafs of all time… I handed my list in almost ten months ago, and now the results are in bookstores everywhere.

It’s entitled “Maple Leafs, top 100, Toronto’s greatest players of all time”.  The photos are terrific and the essays by John Iaboni are bang on. In other words if you’re a Leaf fan it’s a must to possess, and even if you’re just a hockey fan it’s a great book to own considering it’s a basic history of the best known franchise in this country.

I guess only the question is, will you agree with the selection panel? Who would be in your Leafs Top 100?

Click here for The Deacon’s full article