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Fun Time For Leaf Fans: October 9th In Hockeytown
Published 6/26/2008 at Kuklas Korner
Little Gary won’t let you see the schedule for another few weeks.  But thanks to your deep diggers we now know how and when the Wings will open their defense of #11.  Oh wait.  The deep diggers don’t know either, or at least they’re not saying. But Howard Berger is. The Fan 590 The full NHL schedule for 2008-09 will be released in mid-July, and it will show the Maple Leafs opening up the regular season with a game at Detroit on Thursday, October 9th. Might be ...

Two notes from Laff Land
Published 6/26/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... himself, Bill "The Chief" Houlihan: June 25, Fan590.com : The full NHL schedule for 2008-09 will be released in mid-July, and it will show the Maple Leafs opening up the regular season with a game at Detroit on Thursday, October 9th -- the start of the Red Wings' Stanley Cup defence. This is a feature of the new schedule format, in which all 30 teams play one another at least once. The Leafs and Red Wings are, of course, long-time opponents, having been part of the pre-expansion NHL, and the game will be featured nationally on both sides of the border. CBC and Hockey Night In ...