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Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:52 AM

Not quite a timbit nation

Patricia Best

The Wall Street Journal knows business for sure. But does it know hockey?

In a story on the Canadian doughnut chain Tim Hortons, amusingly titled "A Canadian Icon Turns Its Glaze Southward," the Journal reported earlier this week that Tim Horton, the legendary hockey player, played for the Montreal Canadiens.

Not so. The Cochrane, Ont., native started with the Toronto Maple Leafs before moving on to the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins and finally the Buffalo Sabres.

 

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Patricia Best

Patricia Best tells tales from the Canadian business world. Everything from minor scandals to outsized personalities to amusing foibles are fodder for her column, Nobody’s Business—even the occasional good deed. She has written on business for Canadian, U.S. and British magazines and newspapers, is a former editor of Report on Business Magazine and is the author of three books, including one on the inevitability of a major financial panic entitled Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow.