coastal.view Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Dan Bylsma?? perhaps they are signaling mike babcock that the job is his if he wants it and that they will outbid detroit for his services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 It is no secret that Mike Babcock wants to be the highest paid NHL coach! Shanny will offer a huge paycheck in the off season The Leafs have an unlimited amount of money, The Wings, not so much! There is no cap on Coaches salary MIKE B$BC$CK- 5yrs/$40M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Potential suitors Babcock Eakins (LOL) Tortorella Bylsma And about 3 coaches that had really strong showings at the World Juniors and Spengler. But in all honesty, Carlyle has had the Leafs floating around and flirting with the upper echelon teams for quite a while now just needing that 1 or 2 key pieces to make them genuine threats. Yet Nonis never got off his duff to get those pieces. Getting anyone right now and hoping to get the Leafs into the playoffs on the back of a new system is a pipe dream. This signals an annual free fall into mediocrity that seems to be a Leafs staple every January. Honestly mind numbing stupidity firing him instead of Nonis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyg43 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 just dumb an dumber front office poor poor timing watch them tumble out of playoff race now.This was very stupid timing glad Nonis is long gone from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 What a fantastic start to the New Year! Canada wins the WJC! Leafs are in turmoil! Life is good, 2015 is going to be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 This when you know Nonis and the Leafs management is a joke. This is honestly the dumbest time to have fired Carlyle. It's not early in the season nor is late where the season is written off. What a circus...oh well, Nonis will be gone soon too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqua59 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 @MapleLeafs: Randy Carlyle relieved of his duties by #Leafs. READ: http://t.co/KCSd7wjj3A #TMLtalk http://t.co/B7SCej0V9O I'm still wondering why this group didn't fire Carlyle long ago. What changed. It's not his fault the higher ups as in Dave Nonis kept this guy around. What did they expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Carlyle is toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOgRook Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I'm still wondering why this group didn't fire Carlyle long ago. What changed. It's not his fault the higher ups as in Dave Nonis kept this guy around. What did they expect? Carlyle is a good coach, it's his players that let him down. The last decent move made by this team was trading for JVR. Since that trade they have done nothing but sign overpriced FAs and pick up our scraps ( love santo btw). While a coaching change might help in the short term, as they tuned Randy out! they will fall back onto old habits soon enough. How many coaches are these guys gonna go through b4 they realize it's the core, not the coach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 The Leaf's lack leadership at every level, but particularly in the 'room' .. they need to clean out " Dion and the Country Club Boys " .. trade Dion, Phil and Lupul to Carolina for the Staal brothers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayRayDown Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 This when you know Nonis and the Leafs management is a joke. This is honestly the dumbest time to have fired Carlyle. It's not early in the season nor is late where the season is written off. What a circus...oh well, Nonis will be gone soon too. 3-7 in their last 10. Can't trade anyone in the top 6 besides lupul. Clarkson, Kessel and Phaneuf are untradeable and the team still hasn't learned to play Carlyle's system after 3 years. Needed a new voice and waiting would of been worse imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Juice Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Ever since the JvR trade, the Leafs have done nothing to improve their team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Hard to believe there's anyone here questioning this move. The Leafs are once again one of the worst puck possession teams in the NHL - only Buffalo is worse - and the two are headed in the opposite direction. That bodes horribly for their ability to compete down the stretch this season. Carlyle can only call out his players publicly so many times. He hasn't really managed to adapt and he hasn't managed to stop players like Kessel from floating all over the place. They were embarrassed by the Jets in their last outing. This year's version of the Leafs has being propped up by Santorelli, Winnik and Komarov. Santo has been their best player - best underlying numbers - 37.2% offensive zone starts (49.2 finishes), strongest quality of competition among regulars, only a handful of Leafs with better corsi in that context. +11 on a team like that with that situational play is remarkable really - to go with 28 takeaways (+13). Would hate to see the Leafs without their third line this year - and you can only go to the million dollar moneyball MVP well so many years in a row before that dries up. But I do agree that like Deadmonton, there's more problems than coaching in Onterrible. The center of the universe has been running their team poorly and it's been pretty obvious to even us casual observers. They haven't seemed to be able to identify who their best two way players are for quite some time - so it's not mystery they remain a horrible puck possession team. It also might be as simple as 'you can't have a core consisting of the league's premier floater and expect to be a contender'. But you just re-upped that floater at insane terms - so it aint all on the coach. And you just re-upped your captain in similar fashion - so you're pretty much married to your core. Still, their lineup isn't that bad, so it should be interesting to see what a new coach can do with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Another stellar veteran NHL coach available for Edmonton to take a stab at This is when I ask myself Who has hurt this team more? Randy Carlyle? Or Dave Nonis? I'm going with Dave Nonis. Or Brian Burke? I'm going with Burkie - gone but not forgotten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I wish I could feel bad for them, but they won a few games in a row and their media went to the usual obnoxious well - predictably trolling Vancouver overtime (as they do every time they think the Leafs are finally a respectable hockey team) - and even more predictably, they forgot how mediocre their own team is for a week or two. In the dust of how daft they are, the real Leafs re-emerged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Shanahan has used up one of his buffers. He still has Nonis in place before he has to start taking responsibility for how bad that hockey team is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Hockey Place Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 It's the David Booth curse. He goes to your team... your coach gets fired. I'm joking of course but ...... DeBoer*, Vigneault*, Tortorella, Carlyle. * Reached Cup finals the next year after being fired. Strange coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB5 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 How can Nonis still have his job? In his press conference he sounded like he had no idea what was going on, not to mention, he looked like he just polished of a family pack of Timbits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Mind Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I thought this would have happened once they collapse again down the stretch. Either that or when they find out what Babcock will be doing. Should be interesting to see who they hire as a replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo.Horvat53 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Man the leafs and oilers just make my morning sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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