Confirmed with Link: Leafs Hire Steve Briere as Goaltending Coach; Ari Vuori Dir. European Scouting

[Budsfan]

Jamie McLellan was on TSN Lunch and said he is really well known in goalie coaching circles, really works on the mental side of goaltending, not just drills, and they call him Yoda. extremely progressive and positive choice, and not just the same old retreds. (disciple of the Wash. Capitals goaltending coach).

That's good news, sounds like he will bring a lot to the game and help all the Goal Tenders.....Yoda...LOL

Yoda

Yoda was a legendary Jedi Master and stronger than most in his connection with the Force. Small in size but wise and powerful, he trained Jedi for over 800 years, playing integral roles in the Clone ... Star Wars Databank

 

[Pyrophorus]

He's close to retirement probably. Almost 68 years old. I don't think he wants to travel all over Europe to scout. He's likely more then fine staying in Sweden and with the odd Scandinavia trip.

I was curious about Bergmann's status as well, now with Vuori?

 

[Swervin81]

Jamie McLellan was on TSN Lunch and said he is really well known in goalie coaching circles, really works on the mental side of goaltending, not just drills, and they call him Yoda. extremely progressive and positive choice, and not just the same old retreds. (disciple of the Wash. Capitals goaltending coach).

I can see him having fun with Reimer.

"Fix your glove hand, you must. Better positioning, you need. Stop flopping around like a fish, you have to. Your game, a lot of it sucks. Stop letting in beachballs because you are too psyched out after letting in a softie, you gotta. Grow a pair, admit to your mistakes, and stop ****ing getting mentally shattered because you can't handle criticism, you must".

 

[IBeL34f]

Jamie McLellan was on TSN Lunch and said he is really well known in goalie coaching circles, really works on the mental side of goaltending, not just drills, and they call him Yoda. extremely progressive and positive choice, and not just the same old retreds. (disciple of the Wash. Capitals goaltending coach).

If that's Mitch Korn, their new coach as of last year, he spent 16 years in Nashville. He was Pekka Rinne's coach for his entire career until this past season. Seems like a solid guy for Briere to learn from.

 

[schenneuf]

Great scouting hire.

 

[Reddaye]

With Bergmann probably retiring in the next few years it'll be good to bolster our European scouting (not that it wouldn't be anyway). He comes from two very strong scouting organizations, so that bodes very well.

I don't know much about Briere, but by the sounds of things he's a progressive thinker, which lines up with what management seems to be favouring.

Excited to see how things pan out!

 

[Mess]

I was curious about Bergmann's status as well, now with Vuori?

Even moreso since Vuori now has the same title that Thommie Bergman had.

 

[Reddaye]

Perhaps Bergmann is retiring this summer, and Vuori is his replacement?

That would be pretty bitter sweet.

 

[AustonWassup]

Jamie McLellan was on TSN Lunch and said he is really well known in goalie coaching circles, really works on the mental side of goaltending, not just drills, and they call him Yoda. extremely progressive and positive choice, and not just the same old retreds. (disciple of the Wash. Capitals goaltending coach).

I believe he was referring to Mitch Korn when he was talking about Yoda.

 

[Daisy Jane]

I believe he was referring to Mitch Korn when he was talking about Yoda.

oh boo. now i'm all bummed out.
so do we have Luke Skywalker then?

(thanks for the correction )

 

[AustonWassup]

oh boo. now i'm all bummed out.
so do we have Luke Skywalker then?

(thanks for the correction )

Or Obi Wan. It depends on how strong the force is with this one.

 

[HarrisonFord]

Even moreso since Vuori now has the same title that Thommie Bergman had.

Unless he's going to take over for Morrison? Wishful thinking probably

 

[Periwinkle]

Interesting news about Vuori. He's been a big part of TPS Turku organisation for a while. Unfortunately, it's been during the years that TPS has regressed to a league laughing stock. Fans call him "Arse", and he was the frequently criticized for his moves, generally about his seeming inability to built a winning, balanced team, in particular one instance where he pissed off the entire fan base by his allegedly terrible treatment of an organisation icon (who signed elsewhere and went off to have a career year, winning the scoring title of FEL...), and generally being on the frontline when TPS makes one bad move after another. He was first demoted this season, and then "in good agreement" left the organisation. But, he did seem to have some eye to get some good foreign players, so I guess for the role he has in your organisation that's enough? I don't know about his track record as a NHL scout, though.

 

[Morguee]

Interesting news about Vuori. He's been a big part of TPS Turku organisation for a while. Unfortunately, it's been during the years that TPS has regressed to a league laughing stock. Fans call him "Arse", and he was the frequently criticized for his moves, generally about his seeming inability to built a winning, balanced team, in particular one instance where he pissed off the entire fan base by his allegedly terrible treatment of an organisation icon (who signed elsewhere and went off to have a career year, winning the scoring title of FEL...), and generally being on the frontline when TPS makes one bad move after another. He was first demoted this season, and then "in good agreement" left the organisation. But, he did seem to have some eye to get some good foreign players, so I guess for the role he has in your organisation that's enough? I don't know about his track record as a NHL scout, though.

Hmmmm.....well that doesn't fit the narrative.

 

[Henkka]

Fantastic hire. The Red Wings have been great at using their European picks - let's hope the Leafs do.the same.

I don't know is he a great hire. Basicly, our main European Scouting Director HÃ¥kan Andersson has been behind every latest European steals in recent decades. Especally with swedish players.

Vuori has worked with Andersson for years in the scouting team, so I think he knows how to create a Red Wings-like system for the Maple Leafs. At least we did skip bad Finn generations during Vuori's influence, so maybe he is well on the radar, generally.

But I don't really know is Vuori good or bad as a scout. We did skip bad Finns, but also the're hasn't been any steals. His hockey operations for TPS Turku went pretty bad.

Only thing I know for sure, HÃ¥kan Andersson is Red Wings European Gold mine, and as long he stays in our organization, I don't mind others stealing secondary guys behind him. They will never have the same eye for scouting that Andersson has had.

But they can build a good system, and that's the job Director mainly does. Even a bad scout could be a good director and vise versa.

 

[Unkki]

Yeah, he's one of the most hated men among TPS-fans. Didn't handle their cult players so nicely, what got the fans against him.

But his job in TPS was different, so I don't know where this is going to end...

 

[glue]

Can't imagine the Leafs organization isn't aware of his history and both his strengths and weaknesses. So obviously they feel for his role here, he would do a good job.

 

[Henkka]

Only thing I really remember which came from Vuori's recommendation, was signing Ville Leino as UFA at 2009.

 

[HarrisonFord]

Interesting news about Vuori. He's been a big part of TPS Turku organisation for a while. Unfortunately, it's been during the years that TPS has regressed to a league laughing stock. Fans call him "Arse", and he was the frequently criticized for his moves, generally about his seeming inability to built a winning, balanced team, in particular one instance where he pissed off the entire fan base by his allegedly terrible treatment of an organisation icon (who signed elsewhere and went off to have a career year, winning the scoring title of FEL...), and generally being on the frontline when TPS makes one bad move after another. He was first demoted this season, and then "in good agreement" left the organisation. But, he did seem to have some eye to get some good foreign players, so I guess for the role he has in your organisation that's enough? I don't know about his track record as a NHL scout, though.

Was he in a management role in TPS? My guess would be that his scouting record led him to a management role with TPS and his talents begin and end with scouting and management is not for him.

 

[deprw]

He was catastrophe as player coordinator in TPS, but he did some good foreign signings for them. Hard to say anything about him as a young talent evaluator. As long as we have Thommie Bergman everything is good in europe.

 

[Budsfan]

oh boo. now i'm all bummed out.
so do we have Luke Skywalker then?

(thanks for the correction )

Mitch Korn

 

[LeafsandSharksfan]

Jamie McLellan was on TSN Lunch and said he is really well known in goalie coaching circles, really works on the mental side of goaltending, not just drills, and they call him Yoda. extremely progressive and positive choice, and not just the same old retreds. (disciple of the Wash. Capitals goaltending coach).

One of the things I'm most excited about with this new group is how they're making the psychological aspect of playing in Toronto a major focus of player development. Hopefully this will help us bury this 'Toronto media' problem once and for all.

 

[Periwinkle]

Was he in a management role in TPS? My guess would be that his scouting record led him to a management role with TPS and his talents begin and end with scouting and management is not for him.

He was first "player coordinator" and then his job was extended to "head of sports operations", which would be a management position, "managing and developing the sports operations", basically he was in charge of signings and building the team, but there is/was no seperate scouting position in the organisation. I think.

 

[wulfio*]

Or Obi Wan. It depends on how strong the force is with this one.

Obi Wan dropped the ball though. Under his tutelage Anakin became Darth Vader(spoiler).

Bad hiring.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

I thought Bergman would be Director of European Scouting, but maybe he's happy where he is. I knew we'd needed a Director of European Scouting though. Anybody to keep Morrison from going over there really.