| Bill
Barilko scored the overtime goal to win the leafs
the cup in 1951. That summer while on a fishing trip Barilko's
single engine plane disappeared and its passengers remained
missing until 1962 when a helicopter pilot discovered
the wreakage in northern Ontario. Ironically that year
was the next time that the Leafs won the Stanley Cup since
Barilko's disappearance. Gord Downie tells this story
in the Tragically Hips song 'Fifty Mission Cap' |