Babcock’s Tie Stars in Sports Illustrated

Until Sunday, Mike Babcock's necktie probably was doing better than his team. The crimson tie he wore behind the Canadian bench at the Olympic final has its own Facebook page: Mike Babcock's McGill Tie. (It had 1,829 fans as of Sunday.) The McGill University bookstore usually sells two of the ties per month, but all 90 in stock were snapped up within 48 hours of Canada's overtime victory against Team USA. Babcock says he would consider donating his alma mater's newly fashionable neckwear, with its stripes and school crests, to the Hockey Hall of Fame if it inquired, but he officially has retired that particular one. He had knotted the McGill tie with what appeared to be a half-Windsor. The Red Wings are more of a Gordian knot.

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