from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- ... Sometimes, you have to take a step back and breath a little and smell the sporting roses. You have to take a step back and enjoy what this is and maybe how it hasn’t been this way for decades.

The Argos won the Grey Cup in 1991 and the Blue Jays won the World Series the next two years and, for two years, the Leafs were almost contenders.

That was a long time ago.

This is now. This is refreshing. This is the new Toronto.

- Under the department of disgraceful: The New York Rangers celebrated their 90th anniversary on their home opener and didn’t invite Neil Smith, general manager of the 1994 Stanley Cup champions. The only Rangers championship team of the past 75 years.

- Please tell me, Sportsnet, that you’ll be better on hockey than your opening night Maple Leafs broadcast. Please tell me that, as a hockey lover and watcher — not a media person. The hockey public deserve better than that.

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