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Weekly Reader: Let the Maple Leafs drama begin

I'm so happy the honeymoon is over in Toronto.

Things were getting a little weird. It was like in "The Truman Show" where everything was so uncomfortably idyllic, you knew the houses had to be made out of cardboard. The Toronto Maple Leafs should not be greeted with un-ironic optimism and blue-and-white journalistic pom-poms, but with a lingering sense of dissatisfaction and with an activist media poking and prodding the organization until it squirms in agony.