The Calgary Sun · Jun 25, 2016
Leafs may finally have their new centrepiece in Matthews [Video]
The Toronto Maple Leafs choose Auston Matthews in the first round of the NHL Draft at the First Niagara Centre in Buffalo on June 24, 2016. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)BUFFALO — The man from Toronto, old enough to remember the last Stanley Cup, made the drive to the First Niagara Center on Friday night, because he didn’t want to miss out on history.
Because he just had to be here for a night like this one.
The night the Maple Leafs fortunes changed: Maybe, forever.
There have been four great Leafs centremen in my lifetime: Dave Keon, Darryl Sittler, Doug Gilmour and Mats Sundin. All in the Hall of Fame. And now a new day. A new name. A new possibility to build around.