The Toronto Maple Leafs opened talks with John Tavares about a captaincy change soon after their season ended.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are preparing to announce a slight change in their on-ice leadership group. John Tavares will relinquish his captaincy and hand the keys over to Maple Leafs’Tavares has one year remaining on his contract, and his future in Toronto isn’t certain, so what forced the Maple Leafs to go in this direction? According to NHL insider“It’s a conversation that started in a serious manner when the team’s season ended in May,” Johnston said.
“Those conversations continued to a point where John Tavares was comfortable handing it off to Auston Matthews,” Johnston said. “From the Leafs’ organizational perspective, they’ve been thinking all along this could be where they get eventually.” Matthews said he took ownership of the situation at the time and focused on learning from the incident.
“Certainly, internally, the Leafs feel that Auston Matthews is ready to take even another step,” Johnston said. “To formally make it his team, they felt it was the right time.”
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