{"id":34814,"date":"2012-11-20T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=34814"},"modified":"2012-11-20T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T02:56:33","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-history-told-in-a-subway-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/11\/20\/toronto-maple-leafs-history-told-in-a-subway-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs history told in a subway map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/Maple-Leaf-City-Subway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34815 alignnone\" title=\"Maple-Leaf-City-Subway\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/Maple-Leaf-City-Subway-800x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/Maple-Leaf-City-Subway-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/Maple-Leaf-City-Subway-468x600.jpg 468w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/Maple-Leaf-City-Subway.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/feature-matthewblackett-600.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-matthewblackett-600\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/feature-matthewblackett-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/LEAFS_SIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34818 alignright\" title=\"LEAFS_SIP\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/LEAFS_SIP-439x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a>It should surprise no one who reads Spacing that I have a bit of an obsession when it comes to maps. And, as my close friends and Spacing editors can attest, I also have a a deep love of the Toronto Maple Leafs (obviously, I like to punish myself).<\/p>\n<p>Before I started Spacing, I had worked as the art director of The Hockey News for five years. The only person I had any influence in hiring during my time there was a great designer named Jamie Hodgson. He took over from me when The Hockey News and I parted ways in 2003, and he was hired away to be the art director of Sportsnet Magazine last summer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the current NHL lockout playing havoc with my emotions, I decided to combine my two passions of hockey and map-making by telling the history of the Leafs through a subway map. I approached Hodgson with my idea and the timing worked out perfectly as they were working on a special Maple Leafs publication.<\/p>\n<p>The edition just hit newsstands \u2014 The Greatest Leafs of All Time \u2014 and the Maple Leaf City Transit Commission subway map appears on the coveted last page of the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should surprise no one who reads Spacing that I have a bit of an obsession when it comes to maps. And, as my close friends and Spacing editors can attest, I also have a a deep love of the Toronto Maple Leafs (obviously, I like to punish myself). Before I started Spacing, I had<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/11\/20\/toronto-maple-leafs-history-told-in-a-subway-map\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Toronto Maple Leafs history told in a subway map&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[6252,21502,21504,21503,21501,21505,4546,17644,3250],"class_list":["post-34814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","tag-art-director","tag-art-director-of-sportsnet-magazine-last-summer","tag-director-of-the-hockey-news","tag-great-designer","tag-jamie-hodgson","tag-maple-leaf-city-transit-commission","tag-nhl","tag-the-hockey-news","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto Maple Leafs history told in a subway map - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/11\/20\/toronto-maple-leafs-history-told-in-a-subway-map\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toronto Maple Leafs history told in a subway map - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It should surprise no one who reads Spacing that I have a bit of an obsession when it comes to maps. 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