It was an understandable slip of the tongue.
On a beautiful sun-splashed late summer day in southern Ontario, the Toronto Maple Leafs held what is considered to be the kickoff to the new season with their Leafs & Legends Charity Golf Classic at the impressively manicured Rattlesnake Golf Club on Monday. The event comes two days before players and management officially open their 2025 training camp, which again will be held at Ford Performance Centre, the team’s practice facility.
To that end, a Maple Leafs official was informing the media about which players would be available on the first day of camp. There would be a press conference, he said, involving Auston Matthews, John Tavares “and Mitch …”
He quickly stopped himself. “Mitch,” of course, was a reference to forward Mitch Marner, who had been a key member of the franchise for the past nine years before becoming a Vegas Golden Knight.
Via ESPN.com