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Cherished ‘welcome teams’ hockey banner gone missing

August 24, 2020 by SouthEtobicokeNews

Enough is enough.

Not only are the Toronto Maple Leafs out of the Stanley Cup playoffs, but now it seems a hockey-crazed fan may have skated off with a ‘welcome teams’ cherished banner.

A large customized white hockey banner being used to welcome NHL players to Toronto for the playoffs has gone missing and the owners want it back.

The two large plastic banners were installed earlier this month in New Toronto to welcome arriving NHL players, who are here as part of an anti-virus hockey playoffs bubble. There is another bubble in Edmonton.

The banners contain images of U.S. and Canadian flags and welcomed the NHL Eastern Conference contenders.

Organizers said the teams will practice at the Ford Centre of Excellence, at 400 Kipling Ave.

Chris Korwyn-Kuczynski, of the Lake Shore Village Business Improvement Area, says one of the banners, worth more than $200 each, was locked on a fence at a club at Lake Shore Blvd. W. and Sixth St., when it went missing.

“We knew this might happen and we locked it in,” he says. “The banner I think is in somebody’s bedroom now.”

The items were used by the BIA for promotions to drum up area businesses while some of the hockey playoffs were taking place here.

Anyone who has the hockey banner is asked to leave it in the patio of Maple Leaf House Grill and Lounge, at 2749 Lake Shore Blvd. W.

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