Unidentified Maple Leafs Photo, Leafs vs. Canadiens
Here is another unidentified hockey photo, this time involving the Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens. For starters, it's a really cool shot clearly showing Habs great, Jean Beliveau being restrained by an official. The player he's trying to get at, seems to be longtime Maple Leaf #10, George Armstrong. Let's start there. Both Beliveau and Armstrong began their careers in the early 1950's and played through 1970/71. The Leafs added numbers to their sweater sleeves for the 1962/63 season and they added a tie-down to the neck for 1958/59, so that narrows it down somewhat. Looking closely at the left of the photo, hovering in the back beyond the full glare of the photographer's flash bulb (notice the photo is taken ON the ice as was common back then), is the easily identified Leaf, Sid Smith. In addition, we see that Smith is wearing the captain "C" which he only did for one season, 1955/56. Now we're getting somewhere. The Maple Leaf directly behind