Maple Leafs hire Craig Berube as head coach

[BCNate]

Berube obviously had some success with the Blues, but the make up of that roster is vastly different than what the Leafs currently have. Not sure how his style will fit with that group.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Mitchy Rich is going to need to beef up his security detail again.

 

[Stealth JD]

Damn. Going to have to stop laughing at the Leafs annual failures and hope for them to succeed. That’ll be weird.

Go Chief.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[NVious]

He has too much experience in the NHL, we need a fresher look, my cousin is coaching bantam AE in Iqaluit and has had good success (4th/6 teams), the Leafs should hire him

 

[BaconNater]

Marner most likely moving on but he probably did shed a tear or two when he heard this news. Still can't believe Keefe had to apologize after he called out the core 4 when they played bad against Arizona 2 years ago

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Oh man Leafs stars aren't gonna like his hard nose ways

 

[Jeune Poulet]

Should have gone with Gallant or even Guy Boucher IMO.

Guy Boucher's last head coach job was 5 years ago when he lost the locker room in the most spectacular fashion. The entire Sens coaching staff was continually disrespected and ignored.

He then spent years in TV purgatory before finding a job running the Leafs power play. Thanks to his expertise, the Leafs scored **checks notes** 1 goal in 21 pp opportunities these last playoffs.

Is this really what the Leafs want at this point?

 

[Koivu11]

 

[STL fan in MN]

Posted precisely at 5pm on a Friday. There’s something funny about that.

 

[LOFIN]

Posted precisely at 5pm on a Friday. There’s something funny about that.

A proper f***ing newsdump, like Toronto always does. That must suck for the fans.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Craig Berube far down the road to be next Maple Leafs head coach

According to multiple sources, Elliotte Friedman reports the Maple Leafs are far down the road to hiring Craig Berube as head coach.

www.sportsnet.ca

Misleading title thread,
Edit: went from speculation next week to hired. Isn’t Friday at 5 pm est, when you drop bad news lol.

 

[MCR74]

Guy Boucher's last head coach job was 5 years ago when he lost the locker room in the most spectacular fashion. The entire Sens coaching staff was continually disrespected and ignored.

He then spent years in TV purgatory before finding a job running the Leafs power play. Thanks to his expertise, the Leafs scored **checks notes** 1 goal in 21 pp opportunities these last playoffs.

Is this really what the Leafs want at this point?

Good post.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[BayStBullies]

Suddenly Berube will be the worst coach around here.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Posted precisely at 5pm on a Friday. There’s something funny about that.

Ya isn’t there usually an author besides a written article?

 

[LOFIN]

Misleading title thread,
Edit: went from speculation next week to hired. Isn’t Friday at 5 pm est, when you drop bad news lol.

They have done the Friday 5pm newsdump with Berube, with the Marner contract (actually that was like 7pm), with the Matthews contract...

It's the way they do things. Which is kinda crazy, a team owned by two big media companies and they absolutely want no media talking about this stuff when it's oven fresh.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Suddenly Berube will be the worst coach around here.

Well he’s not an X and O’s guy , but assistants can do that.

They have done the Friday 5pm newsdump with Berube, with the Marner contract (actually that was like 7pm), with the Matthews contract...

It's the way they do things. Which is kinda crazy, a team owned by two big media companies and they absolutely want no media talking about this stuff when it's oven fresh.

And also a long weekend,

 

[LOFIN]

Well he’s not an X and O’s guy , but assistants can do that.

Well you better hope they do. Because they didn't when Gallant was with the Rangers.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

He's going to have an aneurysm watching the core four on most nights. Granted it won't be the 4 anymore.

 

[Divine]

I'm just glad it wasn't Todd McLellan.

 

[Turin]

I don’t see this working out, but we’ll see with the rest of the moves they make

 

[Shesty31]

Should have gone with Gallant or even Guy Boucher IMO. They need an immediate 180° in chemistry and execution for quick results in the next season or two more than they need a stable 'head coach' 5 years from now.

Babcock 2.0

Rangers fan here telling you that gallant wouldn’t have been a good hire either.

 

[NMacrules]

Looking forward to seeing how quickly the fans and media turn on him and make him the scapegoat like every coach they’ve ever had

well every coach for the last 15 years let them down.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

From Keefe to Chief