Despite having re-signed his contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in late June, killing any chance that Steven Stamkos would be a Maple Leaf, that storyline of the speculation that he could go back to his hometown of Toronto has been resurrected in the news twice this week. Hooray.
First there was the great public service “reporting” by the Toronto Sun, which used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain emails from Toronto Mayor John Tory’s office, “uncovering” the “news” that Tory knew Stamkos would return to the Lightning before the media got wind of it.