By now, I'm sure everyone has heard about the infamous "list" that ex-Leafs bench boss Mike Babcock had requested from Mitch Marner during his rookie season. If you're unfamiliar or maybe it had slipped your mind, Babcock had asked Marner to rank his teammates from hardest-working to least hardest-working before promptly sharing the list with the rest of the team.
Well, thankfully for Mitch, those days are long behind him and he has turned the page on the Babcock chapter. Now, no longer a rookie, Marner is one of the locker room leaders in Toronto. He's always the first guy to reach out to people when they are acquired by or signed by the Leafs to offer his services or just to welcome someone to the team. As you can imagine, Marner being the sort of outgoing personality that he is, seems to get attached to his teammates and vice versa, I'm sure.
During an interview from his Marner Assist Fund event this week, radio personality Maurie Sherman from KiSS 92.5 decided to have some fun with Marner and play on Mike Babcock's list request, asking Marner to rank the departing teammates he'd miss from most to least. With Michael Bunting, Ryan O'Reilly, Luke Schenn, Justin Holl, Alex Kerfoot and Noel Acciari. Here's how Marner's list worked out:
Holl landing at number one should be no surprise, because we know that Holl and Marner were very close in Toronto, often being vacation buddies and planning their vacations together. Marner also joked that he wanted to put Bunting lower just to mess with him, and admitted that Schenn and O'Reilly were going to be pissed at him for ranking them so low, before admitting that he's going to miss all 6 of them very much.
