LOS ANGELES — Wayne Simmonds might not have many more visits back to play his original Tinseltown team.
“The Lakers were huge, winning back-to-back championships . For us to advertise, we’d take out big billboards with all the guys up on it. Fast forward a few years and they were winning a Cup . When you’re a winning organization, that goes all through the city. L.A. is a great sports town.
He was floored when Pasadena native Nick Robertson told him he once watched him at Kings’ practices and games and with an eye to that sentiment, Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe put them on the same line to start Saturday’s game. ”Another coincidence, I played with William Nylander’s Dad in Philly when he was on a PTO. I picked him up one time when he was out riding his bike. I literally put it in my car, I had a Tahoe then and drove him back and forth to the rink. Once you play in the league a long time, you start to see things like that.”Article contentThe Leafs wrap up their five-game road trip Sunday at 5 p.m. local time in Anaheim.