The Toronto Maple Leafs ... "The Solution"
I’ve discovered the answer to the problem of the Toronto Maple Leafs. A very close friend of 40+ years, Ross Brewitt, recently passed away. He was a sportswriter with 4 hockey books and a fabulous Ontario weekly sports newspaper column to his credit. I may have forwarded copies of his column to you. His observations were always unique. His essays were clean and direct and they had a buzz that made them very entertaining. He gave me a master’s class in writing resulting in us sending each other a regular bunch of nonsense, then laughing our asses off . He left too soon. I’d asked him a thousand sports questions and still had more to ask. In the 1980s, he also ran the Labatt’s Old Stars touring team of retired NHL players who played charity games across the country. The team practiced once a week in Toronto and Ross used me as part of the practice team “pylons” — think of the opposing team that played against the Harlem Globetrotters. He put me on the ice once a week