TheStar.com - Sports - Hey Vesa, don't get too excited about Leafs

TheStar.com - Sports - Hey Vesa, don't get too excited about Leafs: "It may be true what Vesa Toskala says, that 'every player in the world wants to play in Canada at one point in their career.'

But Toronto? Nice place to live but you wouldn't want to play pro hockey here. Not, at least, if you want to be part of a winning tradition.

This is a city that is home to a franchise that last year celebrated the fact that it had been 40 years since it last won a Stanley Cup. Not five. Not 10. Not 20. Forty. Most places, the operators would have been laying low, trying to make people forget such a miserable statistic. Here, there is no shame, only opportunities for re-packaging (plus taxes)."

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