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Curse of the Muldoon

The Curse of the Muldoon was a story invented by the late Jim Coleman, a legendary sports columnist, when he was working for The Globe and Mail in the late 1950s. The Maple Leafs were playing the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL playoffs, deadline was approaching and Coleman needed a column so the Curse of the Muldoon was born.

According to Coleman, when the team's eccentric owner, Major Frederic McLaughlin, fired head coach Pete Muldoon midway through the 1926-27 season, Muldoon told the owner the team would never finish first as long as McLaughlin lived.

The trouble is, having remembered Coleman's story from years ago, I looked it up in our electronic library. The version I saw was actually someone else's account of Coleman's tale. It said Muldoon told McLaughlin the Blackhawks would never win the Stanley Cup in his lifetime. I then wrote the Blackhawks finally won a Stanley Cup in 1961 after McLaughlin was long gone.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...article792289/