Ron Ellis looked around the dressing room beneath the stands at Maple Leaf Gardens and quickly realized that one of these guys just didn’t belong. It was 1964 and the Leafs had won three ...

Ellis, who broke into the league with the Leafs in 1965-65, helping win the club’s most recent Stanley Cup in 1967, spent his entire 1,034-game career in Toronto, amassing 332 goals and 640 ...

Ron Ellis didn’t get his number retired by the Maple Leafs, but having someone’s ‘unretired’ for him was just as respectful to his place in team antiquity. “When you become a Leaf ...