Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday. This week reveals a similarity between Mitch Marner's departure from Toronto to Las Vegas and bygone Toronto Maple Leafs hero Gordie Drillon's controversial exit from Maple Leaf Gardens to Montreal 83 years ago.

Mitch Marner may never have heard of Gordie Drillon , but the former's exit from Toronto resembles "L'Affaire Drillon" that similarly shook Canada's Queen City in 1942.

What we do know is that Drillon, a Toronto Maple Leafs forward inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame with the Class of 1975, endured a variation of Marner's issues eight decades ago before being traded to the Montreal Canadiens. This foll

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