Mike Babcock’s reaction:
I’m real excited. Lou’s a good, good man and a good hockey man. I didn’t know Lou at all until ’03 when we played them and I was coaching Anaheim. We lost to Jersey in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Since that time, I’m not trying to say we’re best friends or anything like that, but we developed a healthy relationship and a respect. I got to be good friends with Jacques Lemaire, had Jacques on my 2010 Olympic staff. I used Jacques as a sounding board, talked to him a lot about Lou.
Mike Babcock on the hiring of Lou Lamoriello as GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs
