Mike Babcock is the new coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. What now? In his piece on Babcock, JP Nikota writes
Now, it seems pretty unlikely that a man of his stature would leave the good thing he has going in Detroit for a tire fire like Toronto, especially when you consider how much flak coaches of bad teams take, and how wearing the Toronto media can be.
He brings up a good point. Babcock had a number of teams ready to give him the keys to the castle. Truck full of money aside (something we'll come back to later), why choose the Leafs?