If Keon and Mahovlich, as we pray, remain in relatively good health, they must be on hand to open the 100th year since the St ...

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 (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 (May 26) — I worked with veteran radio man John Derringer (real name: John Hayes) a generation ago at The FAN–590 when he co–hosted our morning show with the late Pat Marsden. Though I never ...

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 (May 1) — Three days passed between missives from the de facto information director of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Elliotte Friedman. On Tuesday, Friedge reported that Mats Sundin and John Chayka ...

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 ...

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 (June 12) — I suppose it was inevitable, given the utter destruction (by the World Wide Web) of the newspaper industry. And that we live in a country where an alleged competition bureau allows ...

TORONTO (Mar. 18) — The answer is short and simple: As long as this is allowed to happen, it will continue. Unabated and unchallenged. Hockey people in such non–traditional markets as San Jose, ...