from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

Different in growing up in three diverse areas of the GTA.

Tavares was born in Mississauga, played his first hockey in Oakville. Marner was born in Markham, first skated in Pickering, now listed as coming from Thornhill. Hyman was born in Toronto, grew up in the hockey hotbed that is Forest Hill, normally a breeding ground for NHL owners, and starred in the Greater Toronto Hockey League.

Just like Marner did after him and Tavares before him.

This doesn’t happen often — or maybe ever before now with the Maple Leafs. The GTA Line is the No. 1 line on this very good Maple Leafs team, which have never been known for employing a whole lot of local players....

There has never been anything like it before in Toronto, where lines are what coaches draw on blackboards, just so they can erased again. Mike Babcock isn’t erasing this one any time soon. This is a first for the city, a first for the franchise.

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