Takin' a T/O With BT: Wendel Clark...My Hat is Off to You Sir

Dream on. As the lights lowered and another Maple Leafs’ legend was honored, the fake mustaches were in full flight on Saturday. While Dream On, Aerosmith’s first-ever single, piped through the Air Canada Centre’s sound system, while fans young and old looked on, a piece honoring one of the toughest S.O.B’s to ever don the Blue and White played at centre-ice. For the first time in a few years, the classic white base, blue trim Maple Leaf, while the 11-point Leaf adorned the front. Everything about the night was a throwback from the matchup on the ice, to the jersesys, to the throngs of fans chanting “Wendel….Wendel” throughout the Air Canada Centre. Although he had only called the confines of the hangar home for 26 games, it didn’t matter—Clark’s attitude and ambition for the game would have aroused this reaction had he been honored at his barn-turned-hockey-rink, or Radio City Music Hall. But in watching the moustached-man’s ... (link)