Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas rips Toronto S

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Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas on Saturday ripped the Toronto Sun for a "disgusting" cover photo of John Tavares after the team captain had taken a Ryan Smyth Jersey  knee to the head in the team's opening-round game vs. the Canadiens. The cover featured a caption that read, "Captain Crunched."The 30-year-old was stretchered off the ice in the first period on Thursday after taking an inadvertent knee from Montreal's Corey Perry. The Maple Leafs went on to lose Game 1 of the opening round series."I know  Boyd Gordon Jersey that the players and our coaching staff are focused on Game 2 on here tonight, but I want to addre s one other i sue on behalf of the organization and most importantly our players and their families," Dubas told reporters (via NHL insider ). "I think that situations like that garner a significant amount of coverage, but as an organization we felt yesterday that the Toronto Sun cover of their newspaper cro sed the line and we found the cover to be disgusting."I understand and we understand here that the writers and  Ben Scrivens Jersey columnists have no input into the covers of papers or headlines, but we just thought that it was extroardinarily insensitive on the part of the Sun with regards to the photo and the caption that accompanied the situation yesteray. Just a complete lack of compa sion and respect on behalf of the Sun towards John and his family, especially for such an upstanding member of our organization community and his family that had to endure that."MORE: Here is the cover in question, which ran Friday before the publication was aware of Tavares' injury status.When Wayne Gretzky Jersey  The Toronto Sun went to print this morning, John Tavares's condition remained unknown and they still went ahead with an utterly tastele s pun on its front page.Imagine his condition took a turn for the worse overnight and "Captain Crunched" is what these ghouls published.  Mike  Bill Ranford Jersey Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) The Maple Leafs later Friday morning released an update on Tavares, saying he had been released from the hospital after staying overnight. He has been ruled out indefinitely with a concu sion.An update on captain John Tavares.  Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) It was a scary moment as Tavares lay prone on the ice, especially after trainers rushed out to a se s him: He was unable to hold himself up, and had to be held up to avoid Cam Talbot Jersey  causing further injury. He offered a thumbs up on the stretcher.Scary moment when Maple Leafs captain John Tavares takes an inadvertent knee to the head from Corey Perry. | Paul Coffey Jersey   The Majors TV  (@themajorstv) John Tavares gives a thumbs up from the stretcher after a scary head injury Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) Sun editor in chief Adrienne Batra acknowledged the cover on Saturday before Dubas' comments, saying the publication "meant no disrespect" to Tavares, his family or the Maple Leafs.The Toronto Sun's Editor In Chief responded in Saturday's Letters section to the criticism directed towards the paper for its front-page on Friday.  Kevin McGran (@kevin_mcgran) Toronto will face Montreal in Game 2 at 7 p.m. ET on Saturday. They will do so without their center, who this season Benoit Pouliot Jersey  has scored 50 points (19 goals, 31 a sists).