Steve Glynn was giving a tour, playing with his dog and telling a funny story all at the same time. Iggy, his three-year-old Goldendoodle — part golden retriever, part poodle and part disruptor — was pulling at a sock toy in Glynn’s left hand as he stood in the familiar blue room.



It might have been the most famous room in the most famous basement in all of Oshawa. The aesthetic seemed to be governed by chaos, with dozens of NHL figurines and photos sprayed across the wall like the messy result of some colourful sneeze. But each figurine had a matching photo, and each photo had a story, like the one Glynn was telling about the famous defenceman during a two-day media junket.



Any photos taken on the first day of the junket were fine, Glynn said.



“Anything that was on the second day, all the players were rip-roaring hung over,” he said with a smile, motioning to the famous defenceman. “His skin looks like a wallet.