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 (Feb. 11) — It’s a moment I’ll never forget. Even if occurring nearly 54 years ago. Maple Leaf Gardens was filled to near–capacity for a game between the Leafs and Montreal Canadiens alumni ...

TORONTO (Nov. 10) — Hello again. Pardon the lengthy span between blogs, but I’m a new father. Nothing biological; too late for that. Instead, a little puppy came into my life on Halloween… and I named ...

TORONTO (Apr. 28) — At no point, and deservedly so, in the Core–4 era have the Maple Leafs been granted a full playoff mulligan. Until Saturday night, that is, when a defeat in overtime at the ...

TORONTO (Sep. 24) — I’ve written this before and I’ll continue to pound away until it happens: Lance Hornby should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame. That the Selection Committee continues to overlook the ...

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 ...

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 (Jan. 20) — From its earliest days in the middle–1980’s as Canada’s first all–sports television network, TSN has valued the presence of female voices. This may be disputed by Sheri Forde and ...

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 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 (July 19) — I can tell you, without equivocation, that you’ll never meet a nicer, more cordial and pleasant backstabber than Ron MacLean. The first three adjectives are mine; the latter, a non ...

Dryden’s Leaf Term Was Tumultuous TORONTO (Sep. 6) — For sure, the news hit hard. A man of my vintage occasionally rises in the middle of the night with a bloated bladder. As did I after 2 a.m. today.