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Fans Still Talking About The Toronto Maple Leafs

03/16/2020 at 7:15pm EDT

from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

On a radio talk show I happened to guest on Sunday morning I was asked about the coming salary cap and asked if they will be able to maintain their four big names – Auston Matthews, John Tavares, Mitch Marner and William Nylander – and the question almost seemed silly to me.

Like why does that matter right now? And now not knowing much – will there be hockey this year, will there be anything resembling playoffs, what happens to the salary cap next season, what happens to our lives, it’s also a question without anything but supposition as its answer.

But it hit me later, after I hung up the phone. When businesses are closing, investment portfolios are crumbling, when medical practices aren’t taking face-to-face appointments, when your local gym is closing, when people are told to work from home, this is the power of the Leafs. They make us think about them when there is nothing to think about. They stay fresh in our minds when our world is changing every day and we have no idea what is coming tomorrow.

It took a Pandemic, a world crisis, to shut down so much of our lives. For us, this is just the first few days of what seems to be a long haul of some kind. There’s nothing wrong with talking sports occasionally as a diversion from another long day. The unusual power of the Maple Leafs – even on our worst days they still seem to matter.

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