{"id":191243,"date":"2025-10-05T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191243\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:36:16","slug":"craig-berube-drops-honest-truth-on-why-leafs-core-four-was-a-major-problem-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191243\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Berube Drops Honest Truth on Why Leafs&#8217; Core Four Was a Major Problem in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a team game, I&#8217;ve always been team-first, and I believe every guy has to put the team ahead of himself to be successful in this league.<\/p>\n<p>When you have that buy-in from everybody, the team becomes more important than the individual, and you have a greater chance of success. Take less, give more; I always use that term.<\/p>\n<p>I hear \u00abCore 4\u00bb all the time. But it&#8217;s not just those 4 guys winning or losing hockey games, it&#8217;s the whole team. That&#8217;s all it was. The guys who were lumped into that \u00abCore 4\u00bb probably had enough of it.<\/p>\n<p>You need your best players to be your best players, I get that. But over the years, with the \u00abCore 4,\u00bb it felt like it was all on them all the time. I&#8217;m sure they felt that way too. And it&#8217;s not all on them, It&#8217;s a team game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a team game, I&#8217;ve always been team-first, and I believe every guy has to put the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,95497,21687,95494,95495,8436,448,82,95496],"class_list":{"0":"post-191243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-core-four","11":"tag-craig-berube","12":"tag-craig-berube-interview","13":"tag-darren-dreger","14":"tag-mitch-marner","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tsn-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}