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Almost certainly, Auston Matthews will be a finalist for the Hart Trophy, as the NHL’s most valuable player.
Barring some kind of drastic change with Connor McDavid, Matthews won’t win the award but is likely to end up in the top three, which will put him in a place few Maple Leafs of the modern era have ever known.
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Doug Gilmour finished second to Mario Lemieux for the Hart in 1993, then a year later placed fourth behind winner, Sergei Fedorov. Darryl Sittler finished third once in Hart voting. Guy Lafleur won the award that year, in 1978. Mats Sundin never finished higher than eighth on the Hart ballot and Wendel Clark never did receive a Hart vote.
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Now it can be told: The best strategy, when covering a sporting event that was being expertly photographed by Robert Watson, was to show up late.
An annoying reporter would merely get in the way.
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Bob, you see, was the perfect ice-breaker. In the line of duty, he would inevitably introduce and endear himself to everybody. Complete strangers became instant friends.
Upon arrival at the sporting venue, the automatic first step would be to locate Bob, whose trademark amiability and reportorial instincts repeatedly paid off handsomely for yours truly.
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