Doug Gilmour honoured by the Toronto Maple Leafs in a special pre-game ceremony. No. 93 immortalized!!!!!! Hockey Night In Canada. Toronto Maple Leafs vs Pittsburgh Penguins. January 31st 2009 Doug Gilmour Night
Im 49 watching and remembering this.... Dougies years in Toronto were also some of the best years of my life. We had Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto Maple Leafs grit, Paul Morrison, the fans, the go leafs go chant... the city was on fire in the early 90's. Great times. Thanks Dougie 93.
Watching it in 2020.....Guys was an old time hockey great. Gritty player not afraid to muck it up. Glad the Leafs gave him the honor of retiring his number. Awesome video.
You can see dougies tears building right from the get go. I always felt after he left the leafs that his heart stayed in Toronto. To all you smaller kids who are told you'll never make it because of your size...play with heart like Mr. Gilmour did and things will workout for you. Thanks for the memories dougie.
It's a different game now. Size isn't as important. I mean, you can argue ALL YOU WANT TO, but being from Windsor, Ontario, home of the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey League, I just have one name, Ryan Ellis !! A defenseman from the Spits, now playing for the Nashville Predators, and still a defenseman. Oh ya, his height ? A towering 5'9 !! So, while it use to be about size, it no longer is...but it's still about the heart !! Thanks Dougie !! For that old-time hockey !!!
I didn't see tears. I saw alot of him being humble. I don't think he liked the attention. Remember he had a few issues when playing. Most of all, his babysitter accusing him of sexual assault. And in Windsor shortly after the untimely death of Bob Probert, I saw him with Dani, Bob's wife. And yes, they were dating. So.e drink ass yells out, 'hey Gilmour, you wouldn't be with her if #24 was still alive" !! He smirked, she left.
I think Dougie missed having a heavyweight who could protect him a bit and rip shots top cheese on his wing especially lol Dougie and Wendel was a deadly combo.
how do these videos have so few views??? this is legend - i saw dougie play at gardens and he was in the box near the end of the game - whole stadium was cheering "DOU-GIE DOU-GIE!" while a fight broke out and he was at the door just itching to jump in what a beauty
Not posted from the official Leafs channel. Not posted when it should have been many years ago. Apparently some fan needs to do this work for the team and network.
LOL what do you mean respectful? Did you think the Leaf fans would boo his parents and junior coaches? Of course the fans would cheer for them. I can't wait to for the Alumni game, seeing Gilmour, Sundin, Tucker, Domi and Clark together again is going to be a treat.
He was one of the Leafs best, most cherished , hard working guys out there on the ice,,,, UNFORTUNATELY , he didn't have the best team mates, as in , what it took to get the final job done,,,,,, Ya cant win Stanley Cups with just one or two top performers ! ! ! You need a village to raise idiots - - - And - If there's no good idiots,,,,, well then,,,not such a great villiage EH ! ! ! ! ! mo fo's ;-(
I would argue he had some great players with him...but no one carried the team like he did. That is, no one would inspire others to greatness the way he did. Felix Potvin in net, Nikolai Borchevsky and Dave Andreychuck were all great players, and of course, there was Wendel Clark as well. People forget, 1993 was the first playoff appearance by the Leafs since 1990, and their first Conference Finals appearance since 1978, after which the dreaded Harold Ballard era entered its peak, ruining great captains like Darryl Sittler and Dave Keon.
