Category: Toronto Sports
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Kawhi Leonard Trade: Toronto Would Not Sign the Paper
The Kawhi Leonard trade survived everything except a signature. Toronto agreed on June 30, then declined to put its name to the risk in writing.
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MLSE Arena Workers and the Era Rogers Just Closed
Rogers now owns all of MLSE. The company it bought spent 2020 promising to support 4,000 event staff through a benefit most of them could not claim. On July 6 Rogers agreed to buy Kilmer Sports’ remaining quarter of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for CAD $4.35 billion, ending the three-way ownership that had run…
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Eleven Days of Moves, Then a $4.35 Billion Sale
MLSE Rogers buyout: in eleven days the Leafs took McKenna, the Raptors mortgaged 2033 for Kawhi, and Rogers bought the rest of the company.
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Nineteen of Twenty Called It a Sham. Then Toronto Won.
Maple Leafs draft lottery: nine weeks took the Leafs from a GM hire the league called a sham to the first overall pick and a $4.35 billion buyout.
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Two Days From “Con Artist” to “Leafs Win!”
Leafs draft lottery reaction: on Monday the league called the Leafs a sham. On Tuesday they won the lottery, and the reset ran within the day.
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Sixteen Seasons of Reacting to the Same Collapse
Leafs media cycle: the bubble doesn’t burst once, it bursts annually. An entire content economy exists to reinflate it every summer.
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The Leafs Sold a Promise. They Never Built the Team.
Maple Leafs speculative bubble: the Matthews era sold anticipation instead of a product, and the first-round exits kept renewing the subscription.
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Leafs Deadline Was Run by Someone Who Doesn’t Know Hockey
The MLSE CEO brought AI-generated trade returns to the Leafs war room. The story isn’t that he used the tool. It’s what it means that he needed to.
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Steve Sullivan’s Arrival Sparked Change, Then Reality Hit
The Leafs fired Marc Savard to fix a broken power play, turned to Steve Sullivan, saw quick results, then lost William Nylander as a familiar story unfolded.
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Scottie Barnes Youngest Player With 20/25/10 in Nearly 70 Years
Scottie Barnes’ 23-25-10 overtime performance vs Golden State made him the youngest since 1957 and the first Raptor ever to reach the mark.
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Why Firing Marc Savard Won’t Fix the Leafs
The Leafs changed assistants instead of identity, and the odds responded by keeping them volatile, mispriced, and difficult to trust night to night.
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