HE may be among the select few already wearing a letter on his jersey but Matt Haywood believes Leeds Knights can boast a team packed with leaders.
Handing Kieran Brown the captaincy two summers ago was questioned by many people, but it has proved to be a masterstroke of head coach Ryan Aldridge’s reign, given the subsequent development of the talismanic forward, both on and off the ice. Given his ‘veteran’ status, Haywood was always a shoo-in for an ‘A’ last season, a status he shared with defenceman Jordan Griffin and netminder Sam Gospel.
“During the season there are always lots of ups and downs, but if you’ve got a good team around you - and we have that here - then the downs are a lot easier to deal with.” When he made the big decision to end his 12-year association with Glasgow Clan in the summer of 2022, Haywood headed to West Yorkshire unsure of what the future held. Working for owner Steve Nell and head coach Aldridge, he knew there were ambitions to secure silverware sooner rather than later.
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