TORONTO (July 18) — Are you ready for Holy Mackinaw! the Sequel? There is no hard information here in mid–summer, generally the lone quiet portion of the National Hockey League off–season, but ...

TORONTO (July 10) — I was casually scrolling through Facebook the other day when I came upon a terribly distraught woman — her face etched in sorrow; tears welling in her eyes. Out of morbid curiosity ...

TORONTO (June 26) — What the fu** was that headline, today, in the Toronto Star? Can you imagine the relief for John Chayka, general manager of the Maple Leafs, knowing that Canada’s largest newspaper ...

TORONTO (June 28) — Pardon me while I inject some schmaltz into the euphoria of Leafs Nation over Gavin McKenna officially coming aboard in the draft. Events did occur for the hockey club and its ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...