Mike Babcock is getting ready for an NHL comeback behind the bench and it could be with a Toronto conference rival.
Columbus general manager Jarmo Kekalainen had been expected to name a coach this week from a field that included Peter Laviolette with rumours he would also approach Patrick Roy after the Memorial Cup final involving the latter’s Quebec Remparts.
After club president Brendan Shanahan flew out on a Western U.S. road trip during a six-game losing streak to fire Babcock face-to-face, thelearned of the difficult relationship between the coach and a couple of members of what’s now called the Core Four. Specifically, Babcock browbeat 19-year-old forward Mitch Marner into ranking players’ work habits and then shared the list with the alleged shirkers to the embarrassment of Marner.
Babcock did take an associate coach’s job with the University of Saskatchewan in his home province that lasted 16 months until August 2022 when he resigned.
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