In the middle of Norm Ullman’s 13^th season with the Detroit Red Wings, the Center was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs as part of an eight-player transaction.  Ullman would show that he still had a lot left despite his veteran status.

Ullman scored at least 50 Points in his first five seasons with the Leafs, and it was in Toronto where he posted a career-high with 85 in 1970-71.  An All-Star twice as a Maple Leaf, the durable Canadian remained one of the better Centers in hockey until his play dropped off in the 1974-75 Season.  He signed with Edmonton of the WHA after that year.

With the Maple Leafs, Ullman had 471 Points, and averaged .88 Points per Game, .01 more than he did as a Red Wing.  Ullman was chosen for the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982.

Norm Ullman was not the premier scorer in the National Hockey League, but when he had the puck, few could control it better than he could, and if there was a better forechecker in his day, we don’t know who it was.

Although Norm Ullman never won a Stanley Cup, it was not because he didn’t give everything he had as shown by him being the leading scorer in the playoffs twice. That was no surprise as Ullman was always a good scorer and had sixteen seasons where he at least put the puck in the net twenty times, and he did win the goal scoring title in 1965. Eight times, Ullman would finish in the top ten in scoring and would retire with 1,221 points (and 130 in the WHA). Had he not been in the shadow of more famous teammates, our bet is that Norm Ullman would be a bigger name today.