CALGARY — Surrounded by his daughter and a handful of giddy nieces and nephews, Nazem Kadri’s post-game scrum was interrupted by a tiny voice.

“Why do you skate so slow?” Was the ask.

It had come from Aya, his eight-year-old niece, who skated alongside the man of the hour as the pre-game flag bearer for his 1,000th game celebration Wednesday.

A week earlier, when asked in Toronto if she was nervous about the assignment, she shot back with an emphatic, “no!”

That’s Kadri confidence — inherited, unshakeable, and apparently, generational.

Brian Burke tells the story of the kid he drafted seventh overall as a young Maple Leafs hopeful who parked in the fire lane for one practice.

While Kadri shrugged it off, explaining he was late, Burke wanted to tone the youngster’s swagger down a tad,

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