Just like the old days. Habs and Leafs on a Wednesday night. I grew up with this type of thing. But back then, the Leafs were almost good. Toronto’s in 7th place in the East with 24 points, which is ridiculous. It’s almost March and they’re sort of still in it. Must have something to [...]

Danno sends the story of a fellow who spent $5300 on a toilet that used to sit in the Leafs’ dressing room at Maple Leaf Gardens. Leaf toilet Danno says that if Leaf fans squint their eyes a bit, maybe it looks like the Stanley Cup! I also want to add that if this seat [...]

This makes two, both sent from Ron Green in Orillia. First there was this: And now there’s this:

It’s unbelievable. I was going through a box yesterday and found some letters from the Montreal Forum and Maple Leaf Gardens, which were mostly replies to me about tickets. I thought they were long gone, and in fact it was only recently that I was thinking that I wished I still had some of these. I’ll [...]

Don’t blame me, Leaf fans, blame Beatnik. He’s the one who sent it over. Philadelphia Phillies Pittsburgh Steelers Pittsburgh Penguins Chicago White Sox Toronto Maple Leafs

Yes it is, Labour Day weekend. Or Labor Day if you happen to live in the States. Why don’t we all just spell it the same way? We’re on the same continent, with an invisible border and a shared dislike of Gary Bettman, Paris Hilton and politicians. People in Russia or Slovenia can’t tell the difference between a person [...]

The other day the phone rang and it was my old friend Ron Clarke, and although he lives in the Kitchener/Waterloo area, he was in Vancouver visiting his 34 year old daughter who has terminal lung cancer. Ron and I go back further than any other of my other friends as we were childhood buddies and [...]

It was one of those nights where I worked the evening shift and wondered often how the game was going. Maybe I should have just thought about my job. The Habs sucked. They sucked to Toronto, falling 3-0, and the Leafs deserved it. It wasn’t one of these things where the best team lost. I [...]

The article below was written by an Ottawa freelance writer named Buzz Bourdon and appeared in the Ottawa Citizen in 2004. Someone had sent the clipping to me and I’d put it in a book and saved it because for some reason I felt it was worth holding on to. It’s the story of how Bourdon lost his [...]

  I played a lot of hockey and baseball with the kid around the corner when I was growing up in Orillia, Ontario, and now this kid, Rick Ley, might very well have the new arena in Orillia named after him, thanks to some good, hard work by another old friend of mine, Mel St. Onge. Below [...]