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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'
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