The Leafs haven't won the Cup in
Every Leafs fan alive under 59 has never seen a parade. This clock stops the night they lift it. Until then, we count.
How we count it
We add up the NHL salary cap ceiling for every season since 2005-06 and assume the Leafs spent right up to it each year. The lockout-shortened 2012-13 season is prorated to 48 games. This season's $104 million cap is added by the second across the regular season, Sept. 29, 2026 to April 10, 2027, the same way NHL salaries are paid out. The meter rests in the offseason.
The cap-era number doesn't count bonuses, buyouts or spending over the cap with injured players.
The 1967 estimate. NHL salaries weren't made public until about 1990, so no Leafs payroll exists for most of 1967 to 2004. We estimate each of those seasons as the league-average salary times a 25-man roster: the NHLPA's reported averages for 1990-91 to 1998-99, and in between the reported markers of about $25,000 before 1972, roughly triple that a few years into the WHA era, about $232,000 in 1989 and about $1.8 million by 2003. Before the mid-1990s those averages mix Canadian and US dollars.
Then every season since 1967, cap era included, is converted to today's dollars with the US Consumer Price Index (September 2026), so a 1970 dollar counts as about eight of today's. The Leafs usually spent more than the league average, so this estimate is probably low.
Breakaway
Hop the lanes, dodge the Habs, beat the zamboni. Go down and a Habs goalie is waiting. Tap the ? in the game for how to play.
Breakaway
Pick your skater
The Rookie
Best 0 · Pucks 0
Game over
Tripped
50 lanes crossed
Puck Bonus Round
An endless rush down the ice that keeps getting faster until you crash. Crashing here is free: you go right back to crossing. You're in the green and white for this one. Luck of the Leafs.
- ← →Swipe or arrows to change lanes
- ↑Jump the shot blockers
- ↓Duck under the stick across the middle lane
- +Grab pucks, poutine, the C and the ice machine
How to play
On the ice
- Tap or ↑ hop forward. Swipe or ← → dodge sideways. ↓ hop back.
- Dodge the Original Six skating across. One touch and you're body checked.
- Refs won't move. You can't hop through them.
- When the red light flashes, the ice machine is coming. Get out of the lane.
- No skates on concrete. Ride the red carpets across.
- Don't stand around. The ref benches you if the ice catches up.
Puck Bonus Round · every 50 lanes
- An endless rush that speeds up until you crash. Crashing here is free.
- ← → change lanes. ↑ jump the shot blockers. ↓ duck the stick across the middle lane.
- Power-ups: stolen poutine doubles points, the C saves you once, the ice machine plows through anything.
Penalty shots
- Go down on the ice and you get one shot. Tap the net, but not the goalie.
- Score and keep skating. Hit him or miss the net and it's over.
- He gets bigger every time: the rookie, the backup, the starter, then the wall.
Skaters
- Every puck you grab counts toward unlocking a new skater.
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What do the Leafs need?
When they win, everybody wins
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