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Stratford, population 31,400, is considered the capital of Shakespearean theater in Canada, whereas adjacent St. Marys, with 7,200 residents, is home to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

Metropolitans coach Muldoon left St. Marys to attend college and study for his law degree in McCann’s hometown under his birth name of Linton Muldoon Treacy before leaving for the West Coast to pursue professional hockey and boxing.

Like Muldoon, whose first pro playing venture after leaving St. Marys came with a Vancouver, B.C., team, McCann’s first NHL gig after leaving Stratford came with the Vancouver Canucks after they drafted him in the first round.

The team leader with 28 goals and 60 points claims a prize named after former Seattle Metropolitans coach Muldoon, raised more than 100 years ago in the Ontario town of St. Marys, just southwest of the McCann family home in Stratford.

The St. Marys River flows from the swamp’s southeast corner and forms the Georgia-Florida state line.