On March 22, 1991, with the Leafs under new management after Ballard's death, Keon played on a team of Leaf all-stars against their counterparts from the Montreal Canadiens in an old-timers game at Maple Leaf Gardens called "Legends' Night in Canada". "After that, I figured out the new ownership was no different than Ballard, and I had no use for it," Keon later said. In 2005, he told the "Toronto Sun" that the new owners (majority equity owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, chaired by Larry Tanenbaum) "would like to say they are different, but they are all the same."