“I think that’s why they brought me here—to show the young guys the way,” Michalek told Sportsnet this week. In town for a couple days to house-hunt downtown, he was still catching his breath after a lengthy on-ice workout at the MasterCard Centre with crossover whisperer Barb Underhill and a couple of Marlies.
In the span of a year, Canada’s largest city claimed a new lease on sporting life. But can it really shake its loser label without a title? In 2011, in the same month this magazine was born, Canada’s largest metropolis was ranked by ESPN as the worst sports city in all of North America.