My son and I just watched the Toronto Maple Leaf’s die a horrible death, again.

My son and I just watched the Toronto Maple Leaf’s die a horrible death, again.

For Joe it was a frustration, for me it well may be the passing of something, though I am not sure what.

Constantine (Conn) Falkland Cary Smythe was born in 1895 and died in 1980. In between he was a decorated soldier of two world wars, a consummate businessman, owner of a Queen’s Plate winning filly, co-owner and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey club and builder of Maple Leaf Gardens.

Smythe was a warrior, born scrappy and meddlesome and would earn the Military Cross at Ypres in 1917 by breaking up a squad of charging German storm troopers, killing three of them with his pistol.

Disgruntled with his battery commander he enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps as an observer and was promptly........

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