High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the club`s twenty-eighth season in the NHL. Toronto had a mediocre 1943–44 season, finishing the year with a 23–23–4 record, earning 50 points, and a third place finish in the NHL standings. The Leafs were then quickly eliminated by their arch rivals, the Montreal Canadiens, in the first round of the playoffs.