who owns the toronto maple leafs?
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
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 Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd . ( MLSE ) is a professional sports and commercial real estate company based in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . With assets that include franchises in three of the six major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada , it is the largest sports and entertainment company in Canada , and one of the largest in North America . 

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 Over most of its 80 plus years of existence MLSE was a public company . Following the death of majority owner Harold Ballard in 1990 , Steve Stavro led a controversial bid to buy the company and take it private . Most recently , the Ontario Teachers ' Pension Plan sold their 79 @.@ 53 % share of the company for $ 1 @.@ 32 billion to a joint venture between Rogers Communications and Bell Canada , two of Canada 's largest media companies , giving the company an equity value of $ 1 @.@ 66 billion and an enterprise value of $ 2 billion . ( All figures are in Canadian dollars ( CAD ) unless otherwise specified . ) Although the company has proven to be very profitable , they have had much less success at producing winning teams . Of the three major franchises they currently own ( Maple Leafs , Raptors and Toronto FC ) , only the Maple Leafs have ever won a championship , but not since their 1967 Stanley Cup . 

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 Toronto Maple Leafs ( National Hockey League ) – Valued at $ 1 @.@ 15 billion USD in 2015 , 3rd in the NHL 

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 Ownership of the Canadiens once again passed to the Molson family in 2009 after Gillett sold the team , Bell Centre , and Gillett Entertainment Group to a partnership headed by Geoff Molson and including his brothers Andrew and Justin . The sale price was estimated at over $ 600 million . Unlike the pre @-@ Gillett era , the team is now privately owned by the Molson family and not by the Molson brewery , which is now a division of Molson Coors . The reputed sale price reflected a return to profitability , due both to a new collective bargaining agreement after the 2004 – 05 lockout that fixed player costs to revenues and to a rise in the value of the Canadian dollar back to at or near parity with the U.S. dollar . 

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 The primary holdings of the company are its major sports franchises , the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League , Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and Toronto FC of Major League Soccer , as well as their minor league farm teams , the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League ( AHL ) , Raptors 905 of the NBA D @-@ League and Toronto FC II of the United Soccer League , respectively . In addition , it owns the Air Canada Centre , the home arena of the Maple Leafs and Raptors . MLSE also manages or has invested in several other sports facilities including BMO Field , home of Toronto FC and beginning in 2016 the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) , Ricoh Coliseum , home of the Marlies , MasterCard Centre , the practice facility of the Maple Leafs and Marlies , BioSteel Centre , the practice facility for the Raptors scheduled to open in 2016 , KIA Training Ground , practice facility for Toronto FC and Toronto FC II and home of the TFC Academy , and Lamport Stadium . 
