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Stadium:
Air Canada Centre
The Air Canada Centre, often referred to simply as The ACC, is a multi-purpose arena located on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario. It is the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association, and the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League. It was also home to the Toronto Phantoms of the Arena Football League during their brief existence. The ACC is owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., the same group that owns both the Leafs and Raptors, and is 665,000 square feet (62,000 m²) in size. An early nickname for the venue was "The Hangar" due to the corporate sponsor of the arena, Air Canada. However this name was never quite adopted by the general public. The Air Canada Centre is most commonly referred to as simply "The ACC" and has been referenced as such on the official Air Canada Centre website. It is located just south of Union Station. Andy Frost is the public address announcer at the ACC during Maple Leafs home games, while Herbie Kuhn does the job for the Toronto Raptors, and Bruce Barker is the announcer for Toronto Rock games.

Seating Chart:
Air Canada Centre Seating Chart

Team History:
The National Hockey League was formed in Montreal, Quebec in 1917, and initially consisted of five teams formerly belonging to the National Hockey Association. Its formation was a reaction against Eddie Livingstone, owner of the NHA's Toronto Blueshirts, by his fellow NHA owners. The owners of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs were eager to disassociate themselves from Livingstone. However, rather than expel him, they created a new league—the NHL—and didn't invite Livingstone to join them. On paper, they also remained members of the NHA and were able to vote down Livingstone's attempts to keep that league operating. However, the other clubs felt it would be unthinkable not to have a team from Toronto in the new league. Accordingly, the new league granted a Toronto franchise to the owners of Arena Gardens, which made a deal with Livingstone to lease his Blue Shirt players for the season, with the agreement that they would return the players to Livingstone when the season ended. Under manager Charlie Querrie and coach Dick Carroll, the Toronto team won the Stanley Cup in the NHL's inaugural season. Even though the roster was comprised largely of former Blueshirts, the Maple Leafs do not claim the Blueshirts' history as their own. The team's name during this season has been disputed. While the Maple Leafs themselves say they were known as the Arenas during their first season, the team actually did not have an official name during that season, and was still unofficially called "the Blueshirts."

Season Preview:
When the Maple Leafs failed to reach the playoffs last season, it marked the first time since 1998 the blue and white weren't part of the postseason. Coach Pat Quinn had overseen six straight trips to the playoffs, but was made the scapegoat by GM John Ferguson. The move set in motion a series of dramatic changes to the team, including the buying out of popular tough guy Tie Domi, the departures of Ed Belfour, Jason Allison and Eric Lindros and the paying off of Owen Nolan, who resurfaced this season in Phoenix. In their place, Ferguson has brought in former Carolina coach Paul Maurice to man the bench, shored up a perennially porous defense by locking up Tomas Kaberle and Bryan McCabe to long-term deals and added Hal Gill and Pavel Kubina. There remain question marks in goal, where Andrew Raycroft will have to regain his rookie of the year form, and up front, where there's Mats Sundin and not much else in terms of proven point production. The playoffs will once again remain a stretch and missing the playoffs for a second straight year likely will mean the end for Ferguson.

Official Site:
http://www.mapleleafs.com