Bill Barilko

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In 1951, Toronto Maple Leaf player, 24-year-old Bill Barilko, scored the game-winning goal in overtime during the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals. He flung himself across the ice, tucking a quick backhand over the shoulder of the Montreal goalie, giving the Leafs their fourth Stanley Cup win in five years.

A few months later, Barilko disappeared, taking the Leafs winning streak with him. The Leafs would not win another cup until 1962, within weeks of Barilko’s return home.

His story is immortalized in the song, 50 Mission Cap, by The Tragically Hip.

#Canada #Toronto #Hockey #LeafsForever #LeafsNation #missing

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0:00.0	You are listening to the already gone podcast sharing stories of a missing, the
0:08.6	murdered, the mysterious, and the lost.
0:15.0	This episode will tell you two things about me.
0:20.0	One, I am of Ukrainian descent. Show me someone with a co, co, co, co,
0:26.4	K. O on the end of their name, or a last name ending in Chook, and I know I have found one of my people. And two, growing up I played hockey. I had a
0:38.0	multi-year love affair with the sport, playing ice hockey in a girls league and following the Detroit Red Wings obsessively for much of the late 80s and early 1990s
0:50.5	Unfortunately I moved on to other things about the same time the wings started winning the Stanley Cup, but that's just the way things work out sometimes.
1:00.0	If you have a look at the back catalog of already gone, you'll see that early on I produced an episode about the wildlife and tragic death of NHL player Brian Spinner Spencer. I found Spencer's case interesting on several levels, but the link
1:18.0	to hockey is what drew me in. There aren't a lot of mysteries associated with professional hockey, at least not many than I am aware of.
1:27.0	If you know of some, please send them my way because I'd love to take a look at them.
1:39.5	Last year, just before the December holidays, a Canadian friend asked me if I'd ever heard of a guy named Bill Burilco and aside from immediately recognizing him as one of my people, no, I wasn't familiar with
1:47.0	his name. My friend Murray informed me that in the 40s and 50s, Bill Burilco played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1:55.0	Barilco, a defenseman, was one of the team's rising stars, best known for scoring the winning goal in overtime during the Stanley Cup finals in 1951.
2:06.0	Barilco's name and face splashed across headlines all over Canada.
2:11.0	All that notoriety and success? and then Bill Barilco disappeared.
2:16.6	I was intrigued.
2:18.3	What do you mean he disappeared?
2:20.3	Well, Barilco went missing. He was just gone.
2:24.0	And once he was gone, the leaves stopped winning the Stanley Cup.
2:29.0	Oh, he said one more thing.
2:32.0	And then he told me that the Canadian rock band the tragically
2:35.6	hip wrote a song about Burilco a song called 50 Mission Cap. cap. Hook, line and line and sinker.
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