What followed was some unexpected drama. The Toronto Maple Leafs head coach, Mike Babcock, and their best player, Auston Matthews, according to some members of the media, were in a feud.
There were rumblings and rumours, but it’s Toronto and that’s normal. The only thing that we do know where that whatever was happening, it was enough so that Babcock went to visit Matthews in Arizona after the season.
Is it a big deal? Probably not. But speculation was that Matthews wanted to play more minutes (reasonable) and that he wants to play with Mitch Marner (also reasonable).