It was Oct. 23, 1993 and the Maple Leafs team bus was returning to the hotel after a 2-0 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Mark Osborne scored both goals and Felix Potvin picked up the shutout.

It was the ninth consecutive win for a Leaf team to start the 1993-94 regular season just months after their memorable seven-game conference final loss to the Los Angeles Kings, still the deepest they have gone in the playoffs since their last Stanley Cup win in 1967.

But the focus and chatter on the bus was on baseball. Before the smartphone era, nobody on the bus knew how things were going for the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.

When the bus arrived at the hotel, the entire Leafs travelling entourage hustled to the lobby bar to watch the ga

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