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On the other hand, Bob Rouse had joined the Red Wings three years earlier and was long embedded on their blue line, so it was both not surprising and even a bit gratifying to see the dependable former Leaf on the television screen that day in Bangkok.

A year later, both Murphy and Rouse acquired a third member of the former Leafs club: Jamie Macoun. I was back in Southeast Asia, this time in Bali, watching it all unfold on television again. Like Bangkok, Bali’s charms are extensive, not the least of which are the liberal cultural norms and wide abundance of sports (and other things) available. I was in Kuta Beach in an Irish pub watching the Red Wings take control of the Western Conference final over Dallas. (Four years later the same pub was the site of a “diversion” bomb to the massive one that killed more than two hundred people just up the street at the Sari Club.)

Larry Murphy (left) and Jamie Macoun both left the Maple Leafs and immediately won a Stanley Cup with Detroit. This picture seemed unimaginable eighteen months before it was taken in 1998.