Maple Leafs’ Troy Stecher believes Jim Hiller will provide team with ‘really big spark’
Stecher is looking forward to getting started again under new head coach Jim Hiller, where there are shared ties.
“I’m obviously really excited,” Stecher said. “Just growing up in Vancouver, we have a lot of mutual connections. I’m sure there’s going to be different tendencies and systems.”
“I think if you go through the history of the league, whenever there’s a coaching change, you usually get a really big spark out of your group. In saying that, that doesn’t mean anything bad about the past regime. It’s the way the business goes.”
“I know it’s to be seen, but everybody in the hockey world loves (Connor) Bedard and (Macklin) Celebrini and (Matthew) Schaefer have brought the past three years as first-overall picks, so you would probably expect the same. He’s gonna be a heck of a player.”
Very excited for Troy Stecher. He earned every dollar of this new extension. Played with a chip on his shoulder, played the best hockey of career from November-January, and cooling off later in the year likely a function of Craig Berube’s non-existent systems. Inexpensive 7D.