If you’ve ever packed up the ancestral home, taken a last look at the yard, the holes where pictures hung, or the kids’ faded height chart, you know what the Maple Leaf Gardens’ staff went through 20 years ago this week. That ticked off Steve Stavro and Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd., who envisioned themselves destined to govern big-time sports in town. It was the right decision to do it together.”For $350 million, MLG bought the Raptors and their half-finished arena, creating today’s Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. We had 65 events in our first 70 nights, counting Leafs, Raptors and concerts, which nearly killed our staff, but we also learned valuable lessons right away. “Someone just posted this week the old seating list of people in the Gardens press box that last game,” Frost said.

Source: National Post February 20, 2019 14:58 UTC