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spent the better part of a week in virtual quarantine from his Maple Leafs teammates while battling an illness.
The 30-year-old saw firsthand what’s required of a team to go all the way. Now, as one of two Leafs in the room with a championship ring , Muzzin hopes lessons from his past success will prove useful as the Leafs face the Bruins for a second straight year in the first round. There’s bound to be extra pressure from the outside on Muzzin specifically because of what his acquisition represented.
“I don’t really look at it like, I’m ‘The Guy,’” Muzzin said. “I’m part of the puzzle here in this room. I’m going to try and help where I can and do my best. I’m new, but being, ‘The Guy’ – I don’t like having that on me. I just want to go out and do my job and help the team win.” “I feel like we’ve ironed out a lot of reads and certain situations and talking and details,” added Muzzin. “We’ve messed up and that’s how you learn… We’ve had a little bit of a stretch here where we’ve learned a lot and we’ve got some of the stuff ironed out.”
That’s a mantra Muzzin has had to embrace since being traded to Toronto, a mid-season change that coincided with his wife being six months pregnant. She’s due with the couple’s first child in the next few weeks, timing that Muzzin jokingly said “obviously wasn’t planned.”
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