TORONTO WINS THE STANLEY CUP  2024-03-11

One day Satan is inspecting Hell and he comes across a farmer working happily at his assigned tasks. Satan is surprised because the farmer doesn’t seem to be at all bothered by the intense heat. He asks the farmer why he isn’t miserable like the rest of the residents in Hell. The farmer replies: “Oh, this isn’t hot…this is just like a spring day in Saskatchewan.”

Somewhat upset, Satan turns up the heat as far as it will go to try and make the farmer more uncomfortable. But, when Satan returns to check on the farmer he finds him still working away, barely bothered by the increased heat.

Upon being questioned once again the farmer states: “Oh, this still isn’t that hot…it’s just like a summer’s day in Saskatchewan.”

Satan decides to change his tactics and turns the heat down far enough that he can see his breath and frost starts to form on the ground and snow begins to fall. Then he returns to the farmer who is still apparently quite content and happily working hard. This time, when asked why he wasn’t bothered by the temperature, the farmer said: “Oh, this isn’t cold. It’s just like a wintry day in Saskatchewan.”

Satan is furious. He storms back to the controls and turns off the heat completely. The demons and devils are so cold that they have to put on snowsuits, hats ands mitts. Frost and snow cover everything. Icicles hang from the ceiling and the fires turn to solid ice. Satan laughs and returns to find the farmer jumping up and down, cheering and shouting for joy.

‘What is the matter with you now?” yells a frustrated Satan.” Don’t tell me that it gets this cold in Saskatchewan…what do you have to be so happy about?”

The farmer cheers again, shouting, “The Leafs have won the Stanley Cup! The Leafs have won the Stanley Cup!”

For a more descriptive and informative article regarding this matter goto: “Hockey Tales – Ron Ellis” on this website.  

Photo – Ron Ellis, with son, a Hercules pilot, at the Batawa fundraiser (2013).