Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.
Toronto is a big, sophisticated city and multi-ethnic, and people love coffee here.
Toronto has such a nice balance as far as the films they show there,
Toronto hasn't been hot but Colin has been on fire. I've played against Colin enough times to know I can't just key on him because there's Josh, Blaine (Manning), Aaron (Wilson) and Matt (Shearer) out there, too. They have so much depth.
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
I would say overall it was a relatively stress free market. People were more on the level and the condition of the vehicles was better than buying in Toronto or Vancouver for sure.
I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.
Keeping the same emotion and energy we had against Toronto definitely was hard to do. But it's something we had to try to do because we still need to play better and better each night to make the playoffs.
Everyone was in great spirits, and most of them didn't know much about the Toronto Maple Leafs.