n. — Hockey, Ontario
the broadcasting booth in the hockey arena of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Type: 3. Semantic Change — The term derives from the broadcasting booth in Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, from which Foster Hewitt, a sports-reporter legend, broadcast his signature play-by-play moves for decades. The original gondola was removed in 1979 (see the quotation) after being used since 1931. Its name was later transferred to the broadcasting booth of the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the new home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, when it was completed in 1999 (see the 2007 quotation). Despite DCHP-1's general definition, the term is apparently not used outside Toronto, yet it has cultural salience (see the 1979 and 2004 quotations).