TORONTO (June 24) — Roughly six weeks ago, I watched a video podcast with Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington interviewing Don Cherry, presumably at Cherry’s home in Mississauga. I was stunned. It ...

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 (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 (Mar. 25) — The text message came out of nowhere; clearly in response to my recurrent theme about Auston Matthews, yet unsolicited. From a man with whom I haven’t been in recent contact, yet a ...

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 (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 (Apr. 12) — Amid the usual corporate roguery at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment — with the hockey club disgracing itself, most nights — a fundamental issue has reared its ugly face. Yet ...

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 (May 15) — If you get the early impression, from Facebook, Twitter and here, that I kind of like what the Toronto Maple Leafs are doing, you’re not alone. Neither are you mistaken. I haven’t a ...

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 (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 (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 ...