Leafs head coach Mike Babcock has joined the Bell Let's Talk campaign as an ambassador. Let's join him, as a community, in doing a better job of talking and learning about mental health.
It's hard to write about mental health. It's hard to talk about mental health. It was hard to begin writing this piece. Before I even got started, I asked myself why I was only writing this on the eve of Bell Let's Talk day and not earlier?
It's not as though the Leafs haven't been directly involved in an ongoing mental health discussion in sports.