Currently has the highest point % of any coach in Leaf history at .664%. Of guys with more than one season Pat Quinn leads the way with .591% and then there is another drop off to Dick Irvin at .575%.
Still early obviously but he's getting results.
Babcock Interview (Since being hired by Saskatoon) "Something doesn't add up"
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Still early obviously but he's getting results.
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Still early? Really?
Here is a fun stat. Keefe was 100% after his first game as Leaf coach. It's still early, but he might be the best of all time.
Jesus.
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Just looking at Keefe's last 80 games vs Babcock's last 80 games.
What a great change. Should have happened sooner.
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You can use nhl.com too...it's free.
Bad people can be good coaches. Babcock was a bad person and a bad coach. Atleast in toronto anyway.
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I'm sick of hearing about this guy. At least his latest BS has given the Overdrive guys another chance to rip into him again.
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rich coach retires and opts to coach kids trying to make it instead of kids who think the world revolves around them...
all the while still getting paid from the Leafs org.
Yah, he sucks.
Bet he's really upset.
all the while still getting paid from the Leafs org.
Yah, he sucks.
Bet he's really upset.
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I'd bet he's unemployed less because of Franzen/Marner and more because of throwing Dubas under the bus & openly trying to show him up (not playing his guys like Holl, Spezza, etc).
Babcock was more invested in a power struggle with Dubas and ended up fired and made other GMs worry that he'd do the same to them.
Babcock was more invested in a power struggle with Dubas and ended up fired and made other GMs worry that he'd do the same to them.
He was hired through nepotism?
Wow, that like never happens with NHL head coaches, he must be a good person being framed by several different accounts with nothing to gain!
The fact that Babcock took more responsibility for the Marner stuff than the Franzen stuff is concerning. The Marner stuff is peanuts compared to that
Wow, that like never happens with NHL head coaches, he must be a good person being framed by several different accounts with nothing to gain!
The fact that Babcock took more responsibility for the Marner stuff than the Franzen stuff is concerning. The Marner stuff is peanuts compared to that
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Is like to see a Mike Babcock redemption arch with him getting back behind the bench - though for that to happen he'd been able to genuinely learn from his past beaviour and leave that mind-game humiliation BS behind in the bygone era where it belongs.
He was the wrong coach for this team though.
He was the wrong coach for this team though.
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So because you’ve heard a few stories from a decades long career, you’re going to call someone a bad person?
What if you took the 3 or 4 worst things you’ve done in your life? If people only knew those things, would they think you’re a bad person too?
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Babs lost the team in his last year and a half. When guys were buying in, he was an elite coach and the best the leafs had in a while.
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Specifically which parts of his gameplan were leading to success? I've been asking this for over a year and nobody has given me an answer. Was it the stretch pass? Was it Komarov and Marleau on PP1 in the playoffs? Was it playing Matthews and Marner separately and both under 20 minutes a night? I'm not seeing how his rosters performed better than the sum of their parts, we had 3 budding superstars on ELCs, I would hope we would be competitive.
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I don't mind it when a person backs away from all things hockey for a while and then gets back into the swing of things in a different manor.
I don't like it when he eventually does return to the limelight, he resists and tries to fight the reputation he got after these events.
Whether the severity of the blame was deserved or not, doesn't matter at this time. The best way he can repair his image in the public's eye, is to just do his job. Don't argue what he did, don't protest, just go to work. If he was as neutral as possible, and months rolled by, people would eventually become less upset by him. I was personally starting to become less annoyed. Then he explained what he did during one of his first appearances on a US broadcast. Aswell as this. Cmon man. Just suck it up, and back down. It's a shame because he's got a fantastic resume.
I don't like it when he eventually does return to the limelight, he resists and tries to fight the reputation he got after these events.
Whether the severity of the blame was deserved or not, doesn't matter at this time. The best way he can repair his image in the public's eye, is to just do his job. Don't argue what he did, don't protest, just go to work. If he was as neutral as possible, and months rolled by, people would eventually become less upset by him. I was personally starting to become less annoyed. Then he explained what he did during one of his first appearances on a US broadcast. Aswell as this. Cmon man. Just suck it up, and back down. It's a shame because he's got a fantastic resume.
Oh spare me. O’Neill doesn’t strike me as the most committed professional athlete during his time, it’s no wonder he doesn’t appreciate Babcock’s ‘style’.
Just s few days ago O’Neill was calling Hayes something along the lines of a fat tub of garbage back in the day and joked about how his wife stuck it through with Hayes and it paid off because he used to be out of shape and is now a known commodity. Sure, it was in a joking manner but those aren’t pleasant jokes either way.
O-dog is a goon who loves to dish it but can’t take the heat himself. He’s probably similiar to Babcock in that sense.
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I sincerely disagree. I'll own my bias though - I was never fan of him even dating back to his Detroit days and tuning team Canada into a 1-goal grinder team.
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