Mike Babcock changed the slogan on the Leafs dressing room wall recently to Play Fast. Play Right. As opposed to play fast and loose, one imagines.
I confess that I am one of those people who roll their eyes and make jokes at slogans. I think demotivational posters are funny, and I am not the sort of person who longs to have someone give me a mission statement. I am not the personality type of an NHL player.
This change in slogan happened in the reasonable temporal vicinity of some poorer play by the Leafs, a downturn in wins, and some games that were lost after the Leafs had been leading.