When Tim Leiweke took the helm of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, he caused a stir by revealing he had plans to hold a Stanley Cup parade.

How does Thursday sound?

It isn’t exactly what Leiweke promised, but an actual Toronto Maple Leaf, Dave Bolland, will parade with the actual Stanley Cup through the streets — well, Mimico Ave. — of Toronto.

“It’s going to be even more exciting, being a Leaf and bringing it back to Toronto,” said Bolland, who scored the Cup-winning goal on June 24 as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks and was traded to Toronto six days later.

Details, details.

It’s been a long time — 1967, you might have heard — since a Maple Leaf paraded around town with the Cup. Residents of Mimico, the south Etobicoke neighbourhood where Bolland grew up, promise to turn out in force.

“If the Stanley Cup is sitting there and one text goes out, a swarm of people come flying through,” said Bolland, who held a similar parade in 2010 when he won his first Cup ring as a Blackhawk.

“It’s going to be crazy, and now that he’s a Leaf it’s going to be more crazy,” said Mark Grimes, councillor for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, who is organizing the day’s events.

The Cup has been to Toronto before, of course. It lives downtown at the Hockey Hall of Fame — yes, so Leaf fans can see it — and Bolland isn’t the first to bring it home. Scarborough’s Kris Draper of the Red Wings did it in 2008. His newborn, Kamryn, pooped in it.

Former Blackhawks goalie Ray Emery, a Hamilton native now with the Flyers, took it to Wayne Gretzky’s restaurant downtown this month. And Chicago forward Daniel Carcillo brought it home to King City.

Bolland’s day with the Cup will begin Thursday morning in London, Ont. (where he now lives) or a visit to a local hospital. Then it’s up the 401 to Toronto for the parade, which starts at 2 p.m. at the corner of Royal York Rd. and Mimico Ave. The Cup will travel east on Mimico Ave. to Lakeshore Blvd.

The Cup is early in its summer adventure. The tour adds another chapter to its colourful history, and the Blackhawks haven’t disappointed. Already, the Cup has been:

To Sin City, Las Vegas, with Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz. What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there, but apparently that doesn’t include tweets indicating the trophy hung out at the Bellagio.

Waterskiing with Jonathan Toews in Kenora, Ont.

To a jail cell with Andrew Shaw in Belleville.

On the 18th green at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota with the Wirtz family.

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“It’s the tradition of having the Stanley Cup,” said Bolland. “You show it off. You let everybody see it.

“When it’s won, everyone wants to see it.”

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