TORONTO (May 29) — Isn’t it a nice off season? We have the committed, determined captain, evidently during a Reagan–Gorbachev–type summit (only via Zoom), vowing that he wants to “win” here in Toronto ...

TORONTO (May 31) — Today is an appropriate and coincidental anniversary for this solemn blog. It was 56 years ago tonight that I lost my first hockey hero. Terry Sawchuk captured my fancy before ...

TORONTO (June 6) — It was Jan. 30, 2008 and I wandered into the lobby of the Embassy Suites hotel off Interstate–40, near Raleigh–Durham International Airport. I had arrived 90 minutes earlier on a ...

TORONTO (June 5) — There was a time during my radio career when reporters would gather around televisions in the press box at Maple Leaf Gardens, then Air Canada Centre, to “cover” Coach’s Corner on ...

Murray, 26, is a restricted free agent; his salary cap hit was $3.75 million. Pittsburgh GM Jim Rutherford must also sign RFA netminder Tristan Jarry, who impressed this season with a 2.43 ...

TORONTO (Feb. 28) — I’m wondering if someone in the hierarchy of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment would make an unprecedented ruling: that Auston Matthews become the first captain of a team in the ...

TORONTO (July 8) — It was an alarming bit of speculation from a media source familiar to everyone in the Canadian sports television industry: “We may not recognize the Hockey Night In Canada panel ...

TORONTO (May 26) — I worked with veteran radio man John Derringer (real name: John Hayes) a generation ago at The FAN–590 when he co–hosted our morning show with the late Pat Marsden. Though I never ...

TORONTO (Mar. 30) — Tonight’s decision by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment will rank among the difficult firings in hockey. As in years gone by, when such–admired figures as Cliff Fletcher, Roger ...

TORONTO (May 22) — There’s no need to search for a hockey executive to replace Brendan Shanahan as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The club’s parent company, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, ...

TORONTO (Apr. 8) — I’ve told this story before and it speaks volumes about the time and money wasted by the companies that have run the Toronto Maple Leafs since the club last appeared, 24 years ago, ...

TORONTO (May 22) — My strong gut–feel about the National Hockey League draft, next month, for which the Leafs were gifted the No. 1 choice? If John Chayka selects Gavin McKenna, as 95 percent of the ...