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A Post-Playing Career For Olli Jokinen

03/08/2015 at 10:06am EDT

from Dave Hodge of TSN,

Thumbs up, or thumbs down to Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment--it all depends on their willingness to heed my advice. I strongly suggest that MLSE would be wise to hire Olli Jokinen as a high-level media relations director, shortly after he decides to retire as an NHL player.

At a time when the Toronto Maple Leafs seem incapable of making positive news, Jokinen delivers a Hallmark card full of compliments. The cynics will say he wasn't around long enough to know Jarvis Street from Front Street, but Jokinen raved about his time in Toronto as part of his return with the St. Louis Blues.

"Everything is first class. Toronto is a great place to play. The hot tubs and the saunas and the meals are great. I don't know why free agents don't want to play for the Leafs," said Jokinen.

The best treatment he got from the Leafs was ice time following a trade from Nashville that encouraged the Blues to deal for him and put him into the playoffs for only the second time in his career. So he's grateful, but the flowery praise was above and beyond the call of good manners. Jokinen played against the Leafs last night, and, if they're smart, he'll soon work for them.

continue for Hodge on the three-point games...

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