"As for the Leafs, how can I not still feel it? Those days in the old Maple Leaf Gardens are forever. That rickety old place, those black-and-white pictures hanging everywhere, the Gondola and remembering Bill and Foster Hewitt speaking from up there.

"Those were the greatest days. And every night I go home, I can't help it – I'm always watching out of the corner of the eye, checking how the Leafs are doing. It's who I am."