Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday. This week compares a pair of unlikely Stanley Cup Playoff heroes 83 years apart but with one common denominator, each contributed mightily to his team's Stanley Cup victory.

Chances are Brad Marchand never heard of a hockey player called Don Metz. Few have.

But the Florida Panthers feisty forward and the Toronto Maple Leafs utility skater from a previous century share a common theme: Each was an unlikely Stanley Cup Playoff hero, separated by 83 years.

Metz, a wheat farmer from Wilcox, Saskatchewan, and a grunt right wing, never played a full NHL season in his life. Yet in the 1942 Stanley Cup Final between the

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