Kasperi Kapanen's name has already been mentioned in trade rumours. Oversleeping for practice last week and subsequent healthy scratch isn't going to help his cause going forward with the MapleLeafs. (reporterchris)
chose to handle the 23-year-old winger after he reported late for Friday’s practice.
“Listen guys if you guys want to talk about hockey I’m all for it,” he said at one point. “So talk about today or the future, that’s fine. But I overslept and that’s that.”For starters, there was really no unified front or consistent messaging on how things escalated to this point. “I think we’re a pretty forgiving place when things happen,” Keefe said. “Things happen all the time. When there’s a pattern of things that haven’t corrected themselves then you have to do something a little bit outside of what you normally would do.”
If this is part of a concerning pattern of behaviour, you can understand why the Leafs chose to make an example of Kapanen rather than, say, issuing him a fine or punishing him behind closed doors. Kapanen’s name has already been mentioned in trade rumours because of the Leafs forward depth. He’s also seen a reduced role under Keefe, going from averaging 17:05 per game under Babcock to 15:08 since that coaching change.
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