The Maple Leafs got slaughtered by the Kings on Tuesday. At practice on Wednesday, head coach Mike Babcock destroyed them even more.
The Kings ran wild on a Toronto team that barely showed up to its own rink, exploding with seven goals on the night, including four in the second period alone, as the Leafs took their most embarrassing home loss of the young season by a score of 7-0.
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That was clearly unacceptable to the animal behind the bench that is Mike Babcock, and there’s no better way to broadcast your discontent with your group then to skate them into the ground, even after a power failure at the MasterCard Centre (the Maple Leafs’ practice facility) caused the lights to go out.
“I think everyone kind of got the message, if we’re not going to skate during the game we’re going to skate the next day,” Maple Leafs defenceman Jake Gardiner said post-practice.
The other message: Don’t get on coach’s bad side. Babs is a pretty simple, yet terrifying guy.
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