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Podcast: Toronto Legends
Episode: Gerry McNamara, Discovering Borje & Drafting Wendel
Description: Former Toronto Maple Leafs GM [and goalie!] Gerry McNamara talks about Brandon Walsh/Jason Priestley playing him in the upcoming Borje Salming bio-pic, Maple Leafs President Brendan Shanahan personally reaching out to bring him back into the Maple Leafs alumni family, the first time he hit that Maple Leaf Gardens ice [replacing Johnny Bower!], the day he got hired as a Maple Leafs Special Assignment Scout, the incredible story behind his Xmas 1972 trip to Sweden where he discovered Borje Salming/Inge Hammarstrom/Anders Hedberg/Ulf Nilsson, why owner Harold Ballard treated him great but was ultimately a Jekyll & Hyde...