[Ed. Note: Some lists chronicle the best in hockey. Others the worst. Others the most memorable or greatest or essential. What Puck Daddy’s 2016 Summer Series seeks to do is capture those indefinable, quirky, oddities that occur every season. Moments that defy prediction or, in some cases, logical explanation. Welcome to WEIRD NHL.]

By: Steve “Dangle” Glynn of Sportsnet.ca

How on earth do I even start?

Being asked to write about five weird Leafs moments is like being asked to name five Samuel L. Jackson movies. You can name so many but you’ll never be able to name them all.

The Leafs go beyond weird.

By the end of the 2013-14 season I was damn well convinced they were haunted.

The Oilers? They’re easy. Why are they so bad? They’re just stupid, that’s all! The Leafs prior to, like, two years ago? I wish so badly that they were just stupid. They were worse than stupid: They were the Leafs. We’re talking about the team that willingly traded Tuukka Rask to a divisional rival, here.

The Leafs are coming up on 100 years of weird and the ‘Weird Well’ never seems to run dry. On that note, sit down and get comfy because this might take a while.

1. Tie Domi fights a Flyers fan

Tie Domi fighting isn’t the weird part. In fact, Domi holds the NHL record with 333 fights over his NHL career.

Domi wasn’t a stranger to dealing with hostile fans while on the road, either. Once while he was playing junior hockey with the Peterborough Petes, an opposing fan threw a banana at him. To the surprise of the fans in attendance, Domi skated over to the banana, peeled it, and ate it.

This one tops it though. While in the penalty box in Philadelphia, Flyers fans were screaming obscenities at Domi. Frankly, that’s shocking and uncharacteristic of such a fun-loving and docile fan base. Anyway, one bad apple in particular named Chris Falcone provoked Domi to squirt him with Gatorade. When the large fan tried to grab Domi’s bottle, you know, like a sane person, the protective glass came unhinged and Falcone fell right in the box with Domi.

What’s the worst you’ve ever screwed up? You’ve probably never screwed up that hard.

Domi punched and bloodied Falcone, who was lucky to be recognizable at the end of it.

What followed was a lengthy legal battle between Domi and the fan. Domi kept winning, but because Falcone’s lawyer was a family member, the appeals were relentless. As Domi recounts in his book “Shift Work”, he called Falcone directly, met him in person, and offered to fly his family up to Toronto for two playoff games if he just knocked it off. The fan accepted. They’re even pals now.

There are more ridiculous stories like that in Domi’s book, which Sportsnet.ca’s Luke Fox recapped when Shift Work was released.

2. The broken fax machine

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Remember when the Leafs traded Jonas Hoglund to the Boston Bruins? Of course you don’t, because that never happened. Well actually, it technically did happen, it just didn’t happen on time.

In 2001 the Leafs agreed to send Swedish winger Jonas Hoglund to the Boston Bruins for Kyle Wanvig, a third round pick who the Bruins couldn’t get to sign to a contract. Think of him as 2001’s Jimmy Vesey.

The problem was, according to this nifty tale from Sean MacIndoe, the Bruins had to hastily come to an agreement with the Leafs before Wanvig went back into the 2001 NHL Entry draft. Not only did the two teams come to a deal but the Leafs signed Wanvig to a contract, as well.

Problem? When the Leafs went to file the appropriate paperwork with the NHL, the fax machine jammed. The trade wasn’t allowed, therefore the contract wasn’t allowed, and the Minnesota Wild scooped up Wanvig with a second-round pick.

Forget beating enough teams to win the Cup. In 2001, the Leafs couldn’t even beat a fax machine.