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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 27, 2023 | SaltWireBut Borje Salming and Rodion Amirov, the first recipients of a special medallion the Maple Leafs president created in the past year, had put on the bravest of faces in battling their no-win medical conditions.
“I had the idea from the medallions the Canadian military often presents,” Shanahan told the Sun, though he doesn’t wish to publicize the images at present. “I can tell you the players truly appreciated it.” Named for the club’s first president, who had a vital backroom role in keeping the Leafs in town in 1927 and building the Gardens with partner Conn Smythe, it went annually to stars such as Ted Kennedy, Harry Lumley, Tod Sloan, George Armstrong, Bob Pulford, Johnny Bower, Red Kelly, Dave Keon, Allan Stanley, Terry Sawchuk, Tim Horton, Bob Baun and executive King Clancy.
But the new medallions will continue to be low-key presentations by Shanahan when a recipient is deemed appropriate. “Another funny part about the trade was how fast it happened. It seemed I was in St. Louis one minute, on a plane and in a Toronto hotel the next, not really knowing much about the deal.
He encountered a bit of that when given sweater 21 on a full-time basis. Salming’s number had not yet been retired and its significance was often pointed out to an oblivious Pohl. “It was a 5-on-3 power play for us, they told me just to stand in front. Mats is out there with the stars and they’re whipping the puck around with about 50 passes before I just tapped it in.
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