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Originally Posted by 68style
Jersey retirements are going to die out no matter what standards or anything they may end up bringing in for it... I mean... some time in the distant future if they keep retiring jerseys they flat out run out of numbers to use on the team LOL... look at a team like Montreal, over 100 years in the NHL they could easily have retired like 30+ guys by now but they just can't because there'll be no numbers left for current or future players haha!
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the leafs have a tough policy for retiring a player's number - the player would have to have suffered a career-ending injury or died while still a member of the team and played a significant role on that team. only two players, Ace Bailey and Bill Barilko, have had their numbers retired for those reasons respectively. the long standing policy has been to simply honour a player, hang their name and jersey number in the rafters but still allow current players to wear that number.