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RSS FeedsRosie DiManno: Nylander and Leafs get back to business
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4 december 2018 04:10:31

 
Rosie DiManno: Nylander and Leafs get back to business
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Tell them Willie Boy is here.Wait, wrong movie. This was more a Titanic epic, threatening to smash against the iceberg of negotiation deadline, sinking to the bottom of restricted free agency waters, whilst GM Kyle Dubas madly rearranged the salary-cap deck chairs.Okay, we’re done with that metaphor now.In any event, Willie Boy — William Nylander — was present and accounted for on Monday, in the Maple Leafs dressing room, chuffed to tell it himself.Looking very much like the posh $41.77-Million-Dollar Man he has become, wearing a shiny teal three-piece suit, black shirt and suede shoes.Hockey players are THE best-dressed athletes on the planet.And all the world is turning on its axis again, with the 22-year-old Swedish-Canadian returned to the fold, albeit not yet quite ready for prime-time game action and who knows if he’ll be restored to the Auston Matthews line, which has been clicking along just fine even when injured Matthews wasn’t there, either.Just a long-delayed medical Monday as his ’mates flew off to Buffalo, but not before Mitch Marner welcomed the prodigal Leaf back with his version of the money dance, cha-cha-ka-ching-cha-cha.Where Nylander has led, the RFA likes of Marner and Auston Matthews are soon enough to follow, to say nothing of other players across the NHL who are even now doing the projected math comps for next summer. But oh, this is a slap-happy ship at the moment, smiles all ’round and a great big glad-that’s-over whew.“It was a tough process,” Nylander acknowledged. “I mean, it sure was a learning experience that I don’t ever want to go through again. I think it made me a stronger person.”As we now know, the months clicked down to weeks down to hours down to minutes before Nylander finally put his John Henry on a contract Saturday afternoon, deadline looming to avert sitting out a complete season and having do endure the whole schmozzle once more, perhaps ne ...


 
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