Mike Babcock 1-on-1: On analytics, critics, picking a captain and becoming ‘lifelong friends’ with Kyle Dubas

Mike Babcock 1-on-1: On analytics, critics, picking a captain and becoming ‘lifelong friends’ with Kyle Dubas

Mike Babcock’s office is just as you’d imagine it. It’s organized. There doesn’t appear to be a single item out of place. His desk at the team’s practice facility in Toronto’s west end is dotted with notebooks, loose sheets of paper covered in plastic, a book, and pictures of his family. It’s what you’d expect for the uber-prepared, hard-charging head coach of the Maple Leafs.