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The Maple Leafs don’t have a lot of Stanley Cup tales to tell of late, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been great stories about the team.

In his 30-plus years on the beat, Toronto Sun columnist Lance Hornby has been covering a few such episodes and heard many more yarns about the franchise’s 102-year history.

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So he’s added If These Walls Could Talk to his collection of Leafs and hockey history books, a compendium from the ice, locker room and press box of the NHL’s most talked-about team.

From the formative days of the league in Toronto, through the golden Gardens era, Harold Ballard, the crazy 1980s and Doug Gilmour on to the young guns of the Shanaplan, this will entertain fans of the Leafs and the game at large.

Published by Triumph Books, with a foreword by former Leaf Mark Osborne, it’s available for Christmas at book stores and online. Here are some excerpts:





♦ Harry Mummery was a 5-foot-11 defenceman whose bulk, estimated between 220 and 240 pounds, made it hard for opponents to get around him when facing the 1917-18 Toronto Blueshirts.