And his countenance wasn’t an exact match for the one on his rookie card or the one buried under a thick black playoff beard. As a player he was a man-child, nicknamed “Big” after the movie about a boy in an adult body, albeit standing six-foot-three with a curb weight of 220 lb., substantially more adult than a young Tom Hanks.Īt the press conference he was, as ever, in good shape, but hitting the gym to stay fit is different than training to play in the league. That said, the changes in Shanahan were striking. Granted, we age, and none of us as gracefully as we hope, and the 45-year-old he better than the 50-whatever me. He looked so different than the all-star I met 20 years before. I wondered about Shanahan at that moment. “The first thing I’m going to do is head up to the offices and start going through our entire roster, our entire staff and bring myself up to speed,” he said, alongside and in stark contrast to the exemplar of radiant optimism who hired him, MLSE president Tim Leiweke. Just minutes into the siege that was the press conference introducing him as the new chief executive of the Maple Leafs last April, Brendan Shanahan was dialing back expectations of a quick fix. This piece was originally published in December 2014. In honour of the 2017 NHL Centennial Classic, we’re looking back at stories we’ve done over the years on key figures in the histories of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings. The rise of the Maple Leafs’ new presidentīY GARE JOYCE IN TORONTO | PHOTOGRAPH BY FINN O’HARA
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