Proposal: Who do you want as the head coach?

[PanniniClaus]

Luca Cereda

He'd be even better now than he was then.

Have him again for the first time.

 

[jeangauthier]

Boucher........no nonsense,no Bs typef of guy.........works well with the youth.....

 

[Mitchy]

I'll take Paul Maclean out of that dumpster fire.

A Jack Adams winner for a completely mediocre team with far less talent than the Leafs. The guy was fired for no other reason than being a scape goat for their awful team. He's twice the coach Carlyle ever has been.

Ottawa's shots against were terrible. Also, Maclean loved playing Philips with Karlsson. I don't want to see Robidas with Phaneuf.

Methinks Toronto will want a strong possession coach this time. So the likes of Boucher and Maclean, among others, would not interest us.

 

[showtime8]

Step 1: Establish the core of players that you want to have going forward. If it is the current core, then fine whatever they want to try and sell.

Step 2: Figure out the style you want to play based on the team that you have

Step 3: Figure out the coach that you want based on that.

 

[TML1]

I'll take Paul Maclean out of that dumpster fire.

A Jack Adams winner for a completely mediocre team with far less talent than the Leafs. The guy was fired for no other reason than being a scape goat for their awful team. He's twice the coach Carlyle ever has been.

Twice the coach Carlyle has been? If you mean an exact clone I agree.

 

[ironhorse384]

No Babcock in the poll? He's my choice.

 

[TML1]

This team doesn't need an executioner. They need a reasonable and inspirational coach who is adaptive and understands hybrid systems(styles) of play. One who can make a diverse group function as a team. Carlyle is a failure because he tries to make a Corvette perform like a F150. He was to stubborn or dumb to realize these things.

Torts would have conflicts with at least some of...

Kessel
Kadri
Lupul
Bozak
Gardiner
Rielly
Nylander

Torts is a **** off honestly. He should shut his stupid big mouth, hockey is hockey not a talk show.

So you want a coach that will coddle the players and plead with them to perform. Sorry we had that in Carlyle. Torts won't baby the stars we have and will make them accountable. That's what the Leafs need!

 

[Doug Gilmour]

Jules Winfield!!

But on a more serious note Dale Hunter. There is too much of a connection for it not to happen. If he isn't it I would either say Deboer or Keenan.

 

[Mattavarner]

John Tortorella
Knock some sense into the team, trade the core players, in the offseason hire Babcock
This seasons a goner, tank for Connor

 

[arizona beamer*]

It will be Spott/Horacek has interim coaches until Babcock signs with Toronto in June. If this doesn't happen however, I'd like to see Tortarella in TO.

 

[Shak19]

Gordon Bombay

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Top 3 choices

1.Babcock
2.Blashill
3.Boucher

 

[Sdrawkcab321]

Gretzky and or melrose

 

[grenade]

Whoever the new GM picks.

But this is the Leafs, so I would expect they would do it backward and hire the coach before the GM. Then let the new GM inherit the coach he hadn't picked. Then fire the old coach. And so on.

please this. the more pertinent question would then be who do you want as your new gm.

 

[Tact]

 

[Space Coyote]

Just hire Eakins. He would help the Leafs tank for McDavid. He set the foundation in Edmonton, so there is no doubt he could do it here in Toronto.

 

[pucci2001]

If not Babcock then Dale Hunter. Being from London I am bias and he has built consistent teams here for years and one of the key things you notice about London's players is that they work hard and are willing to die to win, if not they are shipped out.

 

[Nithoniniel]

1) Babcock
2) Blashill
3) Dale Hunter
4) Boucher
5) DeBoer

 

[WilliamNylander]

Babcock

McClellan

Deboer

 

[HellasLEAF]

Dan Bylsma

 

[NylandersHair]

Sam Kadri,

Nazem's father

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Actually I'd like to see Tortorella take a 1-yr deal and kick Kessel's ass for a season, just to see if it can actually motivate him.

Trust me, it won't work. The Sedins play a similar style of game to Kessel and Tortorella grinded them into their worst production since the onset of their careers. Granted, Kessel is a lot younger but Torts' abrasive approach wears thin incredibly fast. He also obsesses with shot blocking as the only legitimate defense. Frankly, I think he would crash and burn worse in Toronto than Vancouver.

 

[LeeIs]

No Babcock in the poll? He's my choice.

He's not free yet. Unrealistic at this point.

 

[MooseDupont]

Brendan Shanahan. It is so obvious.

Babcock will re-sign in Detroit.

 

[officialmark*]

Doesn't matter, players suck.