Sorry if this has been posted gang. If so, Mods please merge..

It was announced yesterday that in a $60 Mil. project, hockey will once again be played at Maple Leaf gardens. In a deal cut with Ryerson University and Loblaws Grocery Stores inc. the gardens will be brought back to life, and hockey will be played on it's ice again.

Now, don't get me wrong. I hate everything and anything that has to deal with the Maple Leafs. But the fact that is the last of the original 6 buildings left standing and in somewhat operational status, this is huge among us who love any tid bit of hockey history. I'm glad I got a chance to witness a game in this old barn and was also there for the first night of the Battle of the Blades back in Oct. This building is hockey.

Anyone wanting to read more, here ya go...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/ ... erson.html

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If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it! - NyI

He's a middling AHL player who had the good fortune of a drunk arbitrator. - The Squanto re: Tim Kennedy

That sounds like an exceedingly expensive project....

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Hold my beer and watch this...

that's cool....i like it when they can save history

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"It is more about them than it is about the team...Cannot play with them, cannot win with them, cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win." - Mike Singletary

Tyler Myers - Future captain of the Buffalo Sabres, and future Norris Trophy Winner

Manning the machine gun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon - just in case any teams have an idea of prying him away from us (3 GM's shot already)

Connolly/Roy - 2 goals in the last 47 playoff games

only one other hockey arena, to me, means hockey as much as MLG does, and thats the forum. and we all know what travesty the forum is now...

awesome AWESOME project.

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One of the best weekends of my life was spent in Toronto. I went to a Saturday night Leafs game at MLG, stayed at The Carleton Inn, and hung out in TO for the weekend. The hotel room window overlooked the roof of Maple Leaf Gardens.

Had Pizza at a restaurant across from MLG after the game. At the table to our right was HNIC's Ralph Mellanby and Brian McFarland. At the table to the left sat The Nordiques Dan Bouchard and Dale Hunter. It was very groovy, Baby.

Glad to hear it's not being razed.

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-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.