Whose The Big Winner?

This Saturday, the Leafs will play at the Gardens one final time against the Chicago Blackhawks. My Father and I have been looking through the Hockey News, browsing Leafsport, and checking out bootleggers off the street. If there's something Detroit probably missed out on when they closed the Olympia in 1979, it was the huge profits they could make on T-shirt sales. Did I say T-shirt sales? I meant ANYTHING sales. The upstairs hall in my house is becoming, as my sister calls it, our "Hall of Fame."

When you come up the stairs, you see my room, and on the wall outside of it, the framed piece of the boards from the Gardens. The next wall has a poster of all the tickets from the Canadiens' last season at the Forum. The opposite wall has the framed picture "End of an Era" signed by Jean Beliveau. There is one empty wall. The whole family is trying to decide what to put there. I suggested the painting of the Gardens circa 1950's. My Dad liked the big photograph of MLG signed by 9 Leaf Hall of Famers. We had to argue because the Leafs were sold out of the complete set of tickets for the last season at MLG and the complete set of tickets from the first season at Air Canada Centre really wasn't worth the price. I liked the idea of getting the final program and ticket in a frame or MLG's first and last program or even the last MLG program and first Air Canada Centre program framed. Thank god my Dad is avoiding the piece of the ice from the Gardens because it's $50, and when the ice gets flooded, it becomes obsolete.

Part of my regular clothing rotation is the Leafs 11 Stanley Cup banners T-shirt though I will soon add my Last Call T-shirt soon. I could've gotten a "Memories & Dreams" T-shirt or sweatshirt and the puck. I would like to see about getting the bronzed last game puck or bronzed first game puck. Why not collect all 5 original 6 last game t-shirts.

Get both of this weekend's and next's Toronto Star, Toronto Sun and Globe & Mail. Get both Hockey News's for their commemerative issues. And get those bootleg pictures, T-shirts and pennants. Get some beer at the Molson Street Party and why not have some McDonalds, Harvey's or any other restaurant at Union Station the night the Hangar (Air Canada Centre's affectionate name) opens.

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