Marner’s Maple Leafs teammates ‘shocked’ at carjacking incident, but happy winger is OK
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Mitch Marner’s teammates with the Maple Leafs had a similar train of thought on Tuesday.
They simply were happy and relieved that the superstar winger was not harmed during a carjacking in Etobicoke on Monday night.
“I know that he is doing really well, and talking to him, he is in really good spirits considering the situation,” Leafs captain John Tavares said as the Leafs held their end-of-season media availability at the Ford Performance Centre.
The Leafs’ public relations staff, on its Twitter account on Tuesday morning, confirmed the incident and while Marner was at the rink for exit meetings, he was not made available to the media.
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Leafs president Brendan Shanahan said he was “shocked” when he initially learned of the carjacking.
“Immediately your first thought goes to, is he all right and whoever he is with, are they all right?” Shanahan said. “We’ve been asked by the Toronto Police Service to not speak specifically about the case. I also want to thank them for their attentiveness and the work they do every day, but especially in his particular case.
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“You just care for the well-being, and as much as you are upset it happened, you are thankful that it wasn’t worse.”
Coach Sheldon Keefe acknowledged that his last meeting with Marner on Tuesday morning before the off-season began had “a different tone.”
“He seems to be doing well, all things considered, and now we’re just most concerned about taking care of him and allowing him the opportunity to get through this,” Keefe said.
Veteran Jason Spezza put the incident into proper context.
“That’s life, that’s not hockey,” Spezza said. “That’s scary. That stuff is jarring. We’re happy to see that he is OK.”
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Mitch Marner’s teammates with the Maple Leafs had a similar train of thought on Tuesday.
They simply were happy and relieved that the superstar winger was not harmed during a carjacking in Etobicoke on Monday night.
“I know that he is doing really well, and talking to him, he is in really good spirits considering the situation,” Leafs captain John Tavares said as the Leafs held their end-of-season media availability at the Ford Performance Centre.
The Leafs’ public relations staff, on its Twitter account on Tuesday morning, confirmed the incident and while Marner was at the rink for exit meetings, he was not made available to the media.
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Leafs president Brendan Shanahan said he was “shocked” when he initially learned of the carjacking.
“Immediately your first thought goes to, is he all right and whoever he is with, are they all right?” Shanahan said. “We’ve been asked by the Toronto Police Service to not speak specifically about the case. I also want to thank them for their attentiveness and the work they do every day, but especially in his particular case.
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“You just care for the well-being, and as much as you are upset it happened, you are thankful that it wasn’t worse.”
Coach Sheldon Keefe acknowledged that his last meeting with Marner on Tuesday morning before the off-season began had “a different tone.”
“He seems to be doing well, all things considered, and now we’re just most concerned about taking care of him and allowing him the opportunity to get through this,” Keefe said.
Veteran Jason Spezza put the incident into proper context.
“That’s life, that’s not hockey,” Spezza said. “That’s scary. That stuff is jarring. We’re happy to see that he is OK.”
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