Being at the Air Canada Centre, it was a sight (and obviously) sound that’s all-too familiar to Toronto Maple Leafs fans.  Early deficits in critical playoff-stretch games.  Mock cheering of a young goaltender who was the figurative toast of the town twelve months ago.  And the considerable desire, maybe overwhelming, for a fanbase to rid [...]

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I wouldn’t call it “dirty pool” and I’m not, but the news leaking out of the Maple Leafs adminstration’s pre-deadline “Camp David” that the team has an “offer on the table” for Leafs centre Mikhail Grabovski is intriguing for a number of reasons.  It is, however, a type of “pool” that some GMs shy away [...]

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Sure, I’m excited about the 2013 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic.  Not that anyone living in the GTA really NEEDS snow tires anymore, although Bridgestone makes their fair share of all-season radial tires, I should point out.  We now have, in essence, TWO Novembers and TWO Marchs in terms of weather, and December, January, and February [...]

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I don’t get it. I want to, but I can’t. Somehow, getting CLOSE to victory in this day and age is worse than getting nowhere near it.  When did this happen?  Why doesn’t it happen when we judge great musicians, actors, or artists?  Sean Penn was a 3-time nominated actor for the Oscar (Dead Man [...]

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Look, we all have opinions on the Super Bowl halftime show.  Who should play it, who shouldn’t, who’s hot, who’s not. It’s also a total no-win situation for an artist also (ooh, umm, except for the usual seven-figure paycheck for ripping off 3-4 songs and then being back at a hotel suite before the halfway [...]

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It’s a very tough call to judge whether the rivalry is real or not, or a media creation when it comes to the Senators and Maple Leafs. Really — what’s been memorable post-lockout between the Sens and Leafs?  I’ll go off the top of my head: 1. Colton Orr usually fights Matt Carkner – that [...]

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If you ever doubted that a larger-than-advertised core of baseball fans still exist in Toronto, look no further than the fallout and emotional reaction to the news at 11.11pm eastern Monday night that Yu Darvish is almost certainly going to end up a Texas Ranger as opposed to a Toronto Blue Jay. The much-hyped (and [...]

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New Washington Capitals coach Dale Hunter is a lot of things.  Still hate the Pierre Turgeon hit, and hate even more the ludicrous explanation he gave that Hunter thought the play was still going on.  Saying that, I covered Dale in the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals when he was a Washington Capital and he couldn’t [...]

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Cannot believe some people think it’s humourous what transpired in Vancouver at a Grey Cup luncheon Friday honouring some of the game’s and the league’s former greats. In fact, two former greats, Joe Kapp (the only man to ever appear in a Rose Bowl, Grey Cup, and Super Bowl) and Angelo “King Kong” Mosca, the [...]

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We all make our own beds in life, really we do. There’s never 100% right decisions, or 100% wrong decisions, just varying degrees of both, with alternating degrees of difficulty. That’s business, that’s personal, that’s when you’re 7 years old and when you’re 77. Rick Nash made a big “life” decision two summers ago. Soon [...]

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