Are Hockey’s Young Stars Getting Greedy?
The Lead
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🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs have one of the best young teams in professional hockey. The team is also led by a very young general manager who has placed a premium on locking in youthful talent with big contracts. It’s part of a wider movement in the NHL where young players are commanding the type of salaries that were once reserved for veterans. But while today’s young hockey stars are good, it’s the older teams who are winning Stanley Cups. The Athletic’s Craig Custance joins us to talk about Toronto’s baby faced GM and whether or not young stars are worth the money.
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| 0:00.0 | The NHL season kicked off this week, and on opening night, some of the league's top young |
| 0:10.8 | stars were on display. |
| 0:18.9 | It's a bit of a trend in hockey these days. |
| 0:29.3 | Some players dominating the score sheets and the headlines, and now they're starting |
| 0:33.7 | to get paid big money for it. |
| 0:36.3 | But here's the thing. |
| 0:37.5 | The teams that have been winning Stanley Cups lately have mostly been older teams led |
| 0:42.6 | by veteran superstar. |
| 0:44.1 | Come on back! |
| 0:49.5 | And so there's this big debate going on in hockey right now. |
| 0:53.1 | Are these young players who are now demanding big contracts? |
| 0:57.1 | Really worth it. |
| 1:01.8 | Today we're going to speak with the Athletics Craig Custens about that question, and about |
| 1:06.9 | a babyface GM who's making an especially risky bet by doubling down on young players. |
| 1:13.8 | From wondering on the Athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:16.3 | And I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:17.8 | It's Friday, October 4th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:21.9 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:26.7 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart. |
| 1:30.8 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:37.0 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:41.2 | It stays with you. |
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