Pierre Lebrun, citing anonymous Leaf player: “The difference between this year and last year… everyone is being treated equally”

Pierre LebrunPierre Lebrun’s segment on Leafs Lunch Thursday touched on the Jonathan Bernier situation as well as an interesting quote from an anonymous Leafs player on a key difference under coach Mike Babcock this year.

You can listen to the full segment here.

On the Jonathan Bernier situation:

I’m glad Bernier accepted the conditioning assignment. I think that part has sort of been underplayed. As part of the CBA, a player doesn’t have to do it. He really could’ve made this more awkward if possible; more uncomfortable. A player has to buy into a conditioning assignment. Imagine if he said no? It’s interesting –I traded emails with Bill Ranford earlier this week. I was curious to see what he…