Thursday’s FTB: Everyone has a story about Paul Hendrick

Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images TORONTO - APRIL 1: Scottish-Canadian singer/songwriter John McDermott (L) and Paul Hendrick (R), the Maple Leafs sideline reporter pose with the Leafs mascot Carlton the Bear during the NHL game against the Buffalo Sabres at the Air Canada Centre on April 1, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.On Wednesday morning, Paul Hendrick announced that he will be leaving MLSE and stepping down as the team’s presenter on the Leafs Nation Network, reporter, and interviewer. It was a genuinely heartbreaking moment for the entirety of Leafs Nation, a community that has always had its division, but always found common love, respect, and clarity in Henny. He has been the rudder of Leafs Nation, always pointing it in the right direction, never a foot wrong. In the media world we live in, and in the centre of the hockey universe, that is one heck of a legacy.

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