Gameday: Maple Leafs @ Sabres in the Hammer

Photo by Kevin Sousa/NHLI via Getty Images Toronto Maple Leafs (37-16-5) @ Buffalo Sabres (19-32-8)

Leafs Game #59

Time: 4:00 p.m. ET

Broadcast: SN, TNT

Place: Tim Horton’s Field, Hamilton, ON

Opponent’s Site: Die by the Blade

Ah, Hamilton. The Hammer. Steel City. Oh, never mind, I see they have re-branded as “The City of Waterfalls”. I guess there are lots of waterfalls over The Mountain—that’s the local name for the Niagara Escarpment for those of you in the rest of the world—though sadly the best named one of those waterfalls is located across the municipal boundary to the east in Niagara Region.

I spent the first 24 years of my life in the city, growing up in the Westdale neighbourhood…