So we are a month or so away from the start of the 2008-2009 NHL season. Training camp will open with, as promised, a lot of new faces in Maple Leaf land. The questions still loom though: Will Mats Sundin be there? Will Brian McCabe be there? Who will be the Captain? As far as Mats is concerned, I am done caring. I was hoping he would come back but then I realized that even though he is a good and likeable captain, he has provided the city of Toronto zero in the form of success. No Cups, No conference finals, squat! So if he decides to come back, great. If he doesn’t or goes to play for another team? Who cares.
Brian McCabe on the other hand seems to be on his way out. All the published reports have him going to Florida in exchange for Sean Van Ryan. I used to like McCabe, but like everyone else turned on him. He signed a huge deal and his play went to crap. Maybe he will get a fresh start in the Panthers organization.
Who’s going to be the Leafs captain? Who knows. I think it should be Thomas Kaberle. But then again it could be any of them. Hopefully new coach Ron Wilson has a better idea than the rest of us. Let the countdown to traing camp begin.
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