“It does take a player who can deal with that kind of stuff. It’s difficult. I enjoyed it. I didn’t feel the pressure from the press all that much, but I was only there for a year-and-a-half. So I don’t know, after five years, if I would have felt different.

“I think if you can stay away from reading the papers, from being on Twitter and stuff like that — or watching the news — then it would be much easier, your stay in Toronto.

-former NHL goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere on playing in Toronto. More from Sean Fitz-Gerald of the National Post.