Mind games, revenge and scapegoats. Nazem Kadri pulls back the curtain on the Maple Leaf drama

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If you’re a Maple Leafs fan with a soft spot for juicy locker room drama, there haven’t been many better sources than Nazem Kadri’s new memoir, “Dreamer.” One example: it’s the end of the 2015-2016 season. The Leafs finished last in the NHL in their successful tank for Auston Matthews. And Kadri, while at a season-ending party with teammates, gets a call from Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello. The general manager wants to see Kadri in his office at eight o’clock the next morning – ‘quite early after a team party’, as Kadri writes. And if Kadri sits down, Lamoriello – who won three Stanley Cups in New Jersey while creating an image that hockey is the closest equivalent of a mafia don – wants

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