Like the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Blue Jays are going to face the challenge of keeping a young core together over the next few years. What can the baseball team learn from its hockey cousin? (By ShiDavidi)
Accomplishing all that while leaving enough financial flexibility to successfully fill in around them is essential, and will ultimately be the difference between success and failure.
“Arguably our team in ‘06 was probably better than our team in ‘07, but we lost some players after ‘06 and then we were a more mature team because we've kind of been through a playoff loss together and that got us to the final,” says Spezza.
Spezza sees some parallels between the Maple Leafs now and the Senators at the start of his career, good regular-season teams struggling to get it done in the playoffs, and recalls how in Ottawa, “I wanted to be part of the group that broke us through … that pressure is why you play sports.”
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