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Friday, February 2, 2007

Night to remember

Nowadays, Ian Turnbull uses his great hands to dab an artist's brush and strum a guitar.

But in the National Hockey League of the 1970s, he was considered one of its finest puck-handling defencemen and he's still revered by Maple Leafs fans as the hero of their stirring 1978 playoff run.

Turnbull eventually became obscured by the great defencemen of the champion Montreal Canandiens and Philadelphia Flyers and was not even considered the best on his own team as pioneer Hall of Fame Swede Borje Salming received the lion's share of attention.

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