Simple story assignment. Major factual error. Who's to blame?

The story in and of itself isn't that interesting. It's about famous Canadians getting inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070306.wcanwalk0306/BNStory/National/home

Former Toronto Maples Leafs goalie Johnny Bower, the first hockey player to be named to the Walk of Fame,

Well, no Bower is not the first. As a matter of fact, there have been about 1/2 dozen including Richard, Howe, Orr, Gretzky et al.

So am I making a mountain out a molehill or isn't this a rather glaring error that someone should have caught?

 

molehill -> mountain

 

Both.

 

I've never heard of any of these guys.

 

I think it's hockey's fault for not being popular enough.

 

I got a dollar Loonie that says the original line went ...
Former Toronto Maples Leafs goalie Johnny Bower, the first Leafs hockey player to be named to the Walk of Fame ...
And some eager beaver copy editor took out the second Leafs reference.

 

That makes sense. Thank you.

 

Jay wins the loonie.

Article has been fixed to read "first Leafs hockey player".

I could have probably figured it out if I had thought about it.

 

If you hadn't been so busy jaywalking during the Toronto outing, you would have seen it.

 

The question now is: On what will Jay spend his new found Loonie (read: 80 cents US)?

 

JR could mail me a Loonie and I would add it to my foreign coin collection.
It now stands at two coins, a Canadian penny and a 100 KR piece from Iceland, that I think is roughly the same as an American dollar.
At least I think a Loonie is a coin, it might be paper money.