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Brendan Shanahan on Mike Babcock

Was there something that happened near the end that swayed him to Toronto?

No, he just came around. I tried to make that very clear and I just said it again. The minute we had an opportunity to talk to him, I was on the phone with Kenny Holland, signing the papers, getting the proper procedure done that we would be able to talk to him. Five to 10 minutes later I was on the phone with Mike. We flew him into Toronto, we outlined our vision, we outlined everything I had said at the end of year press conference.