GeneralHelp wanted: how the Leafs can improve at the trade deadlineWell, thank God that’s over. The all-star skills competition may be the league’s marketing department’s idea of an...
GeneralIf winning isn’t everything, why bother keeping score?The morning sucks. Especially with a family; especially with kids. Before my daughter was born, I remember watching SportsDesk...
GeneralThe Internet killed the sports journalism starOnce upon a time, I despised the writer Eric Duhatschek. I despised him because he wrote: “People in Toronto aren’t hockey...
GeneralThe World Junior Championships are obscene. But we better win.This is not a Leafs column, so let’s put the sorrow and hope and impossibility of faith aside for a moment. Let’s take a...
GeneralAmong the ink-stained wretches at the Air Canada CentreA light, twinkling snow fell against the towered streets as I made my way to the rink last night, my first visit in two...
GeneralMy marriage is better than the Leafs—but the Leafs are pretty good, tooThis past Sunday came my wedding anniversary: 19. We were married at St. Lawrence Hall in 1992, and I remember walking home in the...
GeneralWhat do you get when you mate a Leaf with a Lion?Perhaps Ron Wilson can borrow the Swiss particle accelerator to create a squad of über-Leafs
GeneralThis is the Leafs fan’s weakness: we get way too high and way too lowThe editor is laughing. He is laughing and holding his Habs belly. He is laughing and slapping his Habs knee and pointing at the...