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hong57 wroteCOLON"Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock said Friday a decision on the team's captaincy is "coming up" and will "end the speculation."

Babcock said his ideal captain will handle the role similar to that of Kawhi Leonard's leadership of the Toronto Raptors last season.


"They do it right every day," Babcock said. "There was a guy who played for the Raptors last year, I don't know if you remember his name. He came into town and he changed things overnight with an unbelievable demeanour, with a stick-to-itiveness like I haven't seen, with a competitive edge, not bothered by much, left all his talking to his play, and they were able to win the championship. And I thought he made the team better around him.

"To me, that's leadership, that's what they do, they bring it every single day.""

https://www.tsn.ca/babcock-toronto-mapl ... -1.1365059

anyone want to guess who has this characteristic? I think JT ALWAYS makes his wingers better.. moulson.. Okposo... they get their paid and well... or maybe buffalo sucks lol

Matthew wroteCOLONKuznetsov getting a suspension from the NHL

Malette18 wroteCOLON

Matthew wroteCOLONKuznetsov getting a suspension from the NHL

3 games Wew

kyuss wroteCOLONstill RFA once it expires? if so, sounds like a nice contract

Handsome&FairMike wroteCOLONYa these 3 yr deals are gonna be mucho expensivo with the new tv deal.

Bruyns wroteCOLONSports are one of the only reasons ppl still have cable IMO

It might not go up a ton, but big TV deals have happened recently in other pro sports.

Matthew wroteCOLONYeah, as a canucks fan, I'm not happy with the boeser deal. I assume our cup window opens in 2-3 years when his deal expires, and then we will need to pay him way more. Could care less what we pay himoverthe next couple seasons. Would much rather have locked him up at 8 years x 8.5m. Or even 6 years at 8 million than 3 years at 5.9m

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Matthew wroteCOLONYeah, as a canucks fan, I'm not happy with the boeser deal. I assume our cup window opens in 2-3 years when his deal expires, and then we will need to pay him way more. Could care less what we pay himoverthe next couple seasons. Would much rather have locked him up at 8 years x 8.5m. Or even 6 years at 8 million than 3 years at 5.9m

As a guy who has Boeser in BBKL i should probably just hold me tongue. But the jury is still out on him for me to reach this level of star potential that most are assuming he will be at this stage. Few in his corner more than I am, but some early injury concerns and inconsistency issues wouldn't have me happy committing 8+mil to this guy at this stage if his career. Plus it gets us to give him a max contract that will take him through until 32ish rather than 36/37ish. So much less risk in this deal on both ends of that coin. Yea if he explodes we will pay more, but in that situation he becomes a star talent and we got him, how horrible. This deal is very well thought out and very risk averse, i love it.