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The return? A local kid named Luca Caputi.
Two days after watching the most thrilling Team Canada game of the modern era, talk suddenly switched to a trade involving a player who was a decade-long “what-if” as a Maple Leaf and a kid who, as it turned out, played just twenty-six games for them.
Only in Toronto.
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Creating More Leafs Fans
Make babies or watch the hockey game? Can’t you do both?
No, this isn’t some crude rehash of the old joke about a certain sexual position and still being able to watch Hockey Night in Canada. It involves having secured Leafs tickets on the same night your wife’s meticulous charting tells her that she’s likely ovulating.
Now that’s a conflict.
Ask any couple who want to have children — it doesn’t just involving snapping their fingers. The whole process can be a bit stressful. Ask the male half of that coupling just how stressful when it also involves planning around the Leafs, and, if his wife were within earshot, the answer may permanently impair his ability to produce children.