Monday, April 24, 2006

Steve Stavro passes away

Former Leaf chairman Steve Stavro, the grocery store giant whose sporting interests used to include the Maple Leafs, has died. He was 78. A friend said he died of a heart attack.

Stavro acquired control of the Leafs in the early 1990s. In 1991, he became chairman of the board of MLSE, a governor of the National Hockey League and chairman of the board of the Air Canada Centre. Stavro sold his share in Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment to Bell Globemedia in December 2003.

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