The Leafs’ home opener is tonight
Whatever you do, don’t mention Mitch Marner
The Toronto Maple Leafs are so back. They’ll face off against the Montreal Canadiens at Scotiabank Arena tonight. We’ll be alternating our channels between hockey and baseball—please, someone win.
Team captain Auston Matthews says he feels good after training camp. And you know what else he feels? Tired, mostly of questions about ex-teammate Mitch Marner, the Markham-born fifth-leading all-time points producer for the Leafs, who was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights last summer after nine seasons in Toronto.
“You got two more weeks, and then we’re done with these questions,” Matthews told reporters who’d asked about this major adjustment to the team last month.
That is admirable boundary-setting and we respect it. Starting now.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
