JANUARY 5

TREVOR MOORE SCORES FIRST NHL GOAL, 2019

Trevor Moore brought the Leafs crowd to its feet. During a game against the Vancouver Canucks on January 5, 2019, the Toronto rookie carried the puck out of the defensive zone and effortlessly made his way around Vancouver defenceman Derrick Pouliot to put a shot past goaltender Jacob Markstrom and score his first NHL goal. Moore, who went undrafted playing collegiate hockey for the University of Denver, signed with the Leafs organization in the summer of 2016. He spent the next two seasons playing for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, where he won a Calder Cup championship in 2018.

After starting the 2018–19 campaign with the Marlies, Moore was called up to the big club in December 2018, playing in 25 games down the stretch. He made the Leafs roster to start the following season, but on February 5, 2020, the native of Thousand Oaks, California, was traded, along with a third-round draft pick and a conditional selection, to his hometown Los Angeles Kings for goaltender Jack Campbell and Kyle Clifford.

LEAFS END 30- GAME ROAD WINLESS STREAK, 1983

The Maple Leafs had not exactly been road warriors. After defeating the Chicago Black Hawks at Chicago Stadium on January 31, 1982, they failed to record a victory in their next 30 games away from home, recording six ties and 24 losses in that span. It would take almost a full calendar year before they picked up another victory on the road. Finally, on January 6, 1983, taking on the Washington Capitals in Maryland, Toronto snapped the skid. With the game tied 1–1 in the second period, Rick Vaive scored on the power play to give the Maple Leafs the lead. Jim Korn added another in the final frame to secure a 3–1 victory. Breaking their road ineffectiveness against the Capitals was rather fitting. In Washington’s inaugural season in 1974–75, the team managed just one victory on the road. When the Caps finally won in an opposing rink, they celebrated by hoisting a garbage can and calling it “the Stanley Can” — after so much road futility, it felt like they had won a championship.