Fogelhund
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Well thats too bad. She was a nice person to have around and some players certainly improved under her guidance.
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I See Demons!!!!!
Mason Marchment too. Granted he's still a bad skater for NHL standards but she turned him into a guy who could stick in the NHL.
Just in time for Dubas to trade him for someone who can’t!
The pandemic has been a game changer for Barb Underhill, whose legacy with the Leafs goes beyond cleaner edges | The Star
/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/sports/leafs/2021/11/12/the-pandemic-has-been-a-game-changer-for-barb-underhill-whose-legacy-with-the-leafs-goes-beyond-cleaner-edges/barb_underhill_and_grandchild.jpg)
She’s a world figure skating champion with two Stanley Cup rings, a trailblazer in opening doors for women in positions of hockey power.
But when COVID-19 struck and her first granddaughter was born, Barb Underhill’s priorities changed immediately. The baby, Maisy, was taken immediately to the Hospital for Sick Children and put on life support.
“Right away, our life just stopped,” says Underhill. “She was just the centre of my thoughts and our life every single day.”
Maisy is doing well now — “She’s our miracle baby” — and two more grandkids arrived during the pandemic.
“The perspective that gave me during COVID, just wanting to be with my family during (the pandemic), to just be there for them,” she says. “It really was a very difficult time, but it was also a time of great perspective for me.”
So when hockey came back, Underhill informed the Maple Leafs, who helped her blaze that trail by hiring her 10 years ago, that she was moving on.
She’ll remain a coaching consultant with the Tampa Bay Lightning, who brought her aboard 11 years ago, but working for the Leafs as well — a combination that went from summertime work to year-round — was simply too much. Underhill and husband Rick Gaetz also recently sold their share of the Guelph Storm, the 2019 OHL champions.
“I’ve been struggling with this for a while,” she says. “When I started, it wasn’t a big deal because the job was mainly working in the off-season. But things have changed and the demands of the role have become greater. It got to a point where I knew I had to make a decision and I just needed a pullback.”
Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly is among those missing Underhill.
“I always looked forward to being on the ice with her,” says Rielly, one of Underhill’s prized students. “It was just cool to talk to her about other ideas that were rolling around in her brain, and other areas that she had in mind that players could improve on, and new moves that you could implement into your game.”
She’s a world figure skating champion with two Stanley Cup rings, a trailblazer in opening doors for women in positions of hockey power.
But when COVID-19 struck and her first granddaughter was born, Barb Underhill’s priorities changed immediately. The baby, Maisy, was taken immediately to the Hospital for Sick Children and put on life support.
“Right away, our life just stopped,” says Underhill. “She was just the centre of my thoughts and our life every single day.”
Maisy is doing well now — “She’s our miracle baby” — and two more grandkids arrived during the pandemic.
“The perspective that gave me during COVID, just wanting to be with my family during (the pandemic), to just be there for them,” she says. “It really was a very difficult time, but it was also a time of great perspective for me.”
So when hockey came back, Underhill informed the Maple Leafs, who helped her blaze that trail by hiring her 10 years ago, that she was moving on.
She’ll remain a coaching consultant with the Tampa Bay Lightning, who brought her aboard 11 years ago, but working for the Leafs as well — a combination that went from summertime work to year-round — was simply too much. Underhill and husband Rick Gaetz also recently sold their share of the Guelph Storm, the 2019 OHL champions.
“I’ve been struggling with this for a while,” she says. “When I started, it wasn’t a big deal because the job was mainly working in the off-season. But things have changed and the demands of the role have become greater. It got to a point where I knew I had to make a decision and I just needed a pullback.”
Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly is among those missing Underhill.
“I always looked forward to being on the ice with her,” says Rielly, one of Underhill’s prized students. “It was just cool to talk to her about other ideas that were rolling around in her brain, and other areas that she had in mind that players could improve on, and new moves that you could implement into your game.”
Mickey Marner
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What's the deal with her Wikipedia page?
Barbara Underhill - Wikipedia
What the heck does a hockey game have to do with her daughter drowning?
Barbara Underhill - Wikipedia
What the heck does a hockey game have to do with her daughter drowning?
That's horrific, and that page needs to be edited. It's not like she was employed by the Leafs at the time, and her role is so far in the background of the team even at that point it doesn't merit mention.
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