Confirmed with Link: The Leafs have hired Jacques Lemaire as Special Assignment Coach.
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Guy Boucher
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There probably isn't a better guy for Babcock to bounce idea's off of. Lemaire is perhaps the most tactically strong coach in the modern era.
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This can't be bad.
11 cups. The maple leafs room is going to have an amazing collection of hockey minds for the first time I have ever seen
11 cups. The maple leafs room is going to have an amazing collection of hockey minds for the first time I have ever seen
The Toronto Maple Leafs are becoming a "mom and pop", family and friends organization.
If you have a strong connection with the Devils, Red Wings and/or you play(ed) for the London Knights, you have an automatic entry into this organization.
What's the point of bringing in 2 guys of the age of Lou and Jaques to a team that's not like to be decent for a few years yet?
If you have a strong connection with the Devils, Red Wings and/or you play(ed) for the London Knights, you have an automatic entry into this organization.
What's the point of bringing in 2 guys of the age of Lou and Jaques to a team that's not like to be decent for a few years yet?
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lol
They should hire you for some diversity
Look at the credentials of all the people the Leafs have brought in and you are complaining LOL
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I imagine he'll focus on certain aspects, ie. Faceoffs, PK and not be seen behind the bench.
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Things are going very well with the front office Must complain!!!This is a great hire! My assumption is with the term "Special Assignment" is he'll likely help out with the coaching staff but not be behind the bench during games? Maybe?
My god this team may not be great but they are going to work their ***** off and be taught a hell of a lot of hockey knowledge.
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Quality hockey men, changing the culture. It's never a bad thing to hire good people.
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A good chunk of the reason a guy with experience like Lou was hired was BECAUSE he had connections like this around the league. Without Lou here, Lemaire probably would have been happy to stay with the Devils.
Are you saying we should have hired an experienced GM but then completely ignored the network and influence that he spent 30 years building?
Not sure why there's so many closed minded people around here.
"Babcock has winning in his genes, there's no way he'll allow a rebuild."
"Lamoriello is 72 years old. He won't be around to see us winning."
"Babcock, Lou and Lemaire don't know what losing is. Bye bye rebuild."
"What's the point of bringing in 2 guys of the age of Lou and Jaques to a team that's not like to be decent for a few years yet?"
I've heard it all. Leafs are not trying to be followers, they are trying to innovate and lead the next era of the sport by bringing in a nice blend of experience (what's that, 15 cups between Babcock-Lemaire-Lou?), younger up-and-coming minds (Dubas/Hunter/Pridham), an injection of analytics, etc.
Now people are complaining about why we brought on an 11 time cup winning coach to the club? Were you more satisfied with the previous regime's of JFJ, Burke, Nonis?
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great moves.. as long as everyone knows their role I suppose.
can't help it but think perhaps we're starting to have too many cooks in the kitchen?
can't help it but think perhaps we're starting to have too many cooks in the kitchen?
Are there better organizations over the last two decades of hockey that you'd rather hire from than the Red Wings or Devils in the NHL, or the Knights in the CHL? Sure, I get that they're familiar faces to Shanahan, but they're also some of the most respected men to be involved in the game, and in Lemaire's case, one of the most decorated in the sport's history.
Well those teams have won 6 cups in the last couple years. They're hiring the best if the best.
If they were hiring no-name guys without such credentials, you'd have a point.
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"Defense wins Championships" and Lemaire knows defense and Lou knows Lemaire, and Leaf Nation wants Championships.
The pieces all seem to fit.
The pieces all seem to fit.
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Congrats on being that guy.
In order to develop them into a decent team? To teach their front office how to do things? Why is that difficult to understand?
I never got back to you in the other thread when you mentioned that there's a difference between an aging coach and an aging GM.
But I don't necessarily see it. An aging GM still needs to have an open mind about the way the game is evolving in order to get their coach the right players to handle the new style of play. What exactly makes it so different?
And I find it interesting that people consider every member of the "Old Boys Club" to be a dinosaur, incapable of adapting to the way things are headed, particularly since the only way you maintain a multiple-decades-long career in this industry is by finding ways to be innovative. Sports are always evolving and changing, it's generational. Lemaire has managed to be successful for 4 decades. How can you not want a mind like that in your organization?
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