Craig Berube Named the 32nd Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs

[thewave]

You fight through coverages and produce. Our guys can't when it matters.

By that logic. Maurice was an idiot changing how the team treated Willy? I think the result proves in this case that it's worth it to change your game plan

 

[Stephen]

I appreciate Berube's contribution to the team and there was definitely a different feel to it. But there is a round peg, square hole aspect to the roster at the moment, especially at the forward group which has not really undergone the Treliving-Berube retool.

The challenge here will be to introduce the quantity of changes to turn it into a Berube team in the runway that an NHL coach still has the ear of the team. If it takes 2-3 years to get the right pieces in place but a coach only has a 3-4 year shelf life, this transformation may not ultimately be the right course.

I think we might be headed to a nuclear winter rebuild in 2-3 years anyway.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Kept Nylander stapled to JT's corpse when they were getting owned in certain matchups and didn't bother breaking up Marner and Matthews when they had nothing going in most games

It's a game of adjustments the deeper you go into a series, and he barely did anything.

 

[A1LeafNation]

Kept Nylander stapled to JT's corpse when they were getting owned in certain matchups and didn't bother breaking up Marner and Matthews when they had nothing going in most games

It's a game of adjustments the deeper you go into a series, and he barely did anything.

Changing chairs on the titanic wasn't the difference.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

A big issue with him was not playing Laughton at centre consistently from the trade to get him until like 6 games left in the season. A waste of time having him on the wing for as long as he did.

 

[keonsbitterness]

By that logic. Maurice was an idiot changing how the team treated Willy? I think the result proves in this case that it's worth it to change your game plan

I'm talking a nine year process where the core got worse and worse in key playoff games. What Maurice did in line matchups for one series is not seeing the forest for the trees.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Changing chairs on the titanic wasn't the difference.

No, but we can't ignore the fact that he got badly outcoached by Maurice

 

[A1LeafNation]

No, but we can't ignore the fact that he got badly outcoached by Maurice

I don't know that. Florida had better players than ours so I'd like to see that equal before making this call.

 

[thewave]

I'm talking a nine year process where the core got worse and worse in key playoff games. What Maurice did in line matchups for one series is not seeing the forest for the trees.

But Willy was tied for the lead in the entire NHL playoffs for points. He had 3pts in two games against the defending champs. Maurice changed the game plan and his production dropped without even an attempt by the coach to correct that.

What happened for years past regarding Willy doesn't really matter right now?

 

[Da Mash]

Lead us to a Cup Chief .. please .. da city needs it .. it has been too long Chief .. all hail da chief

Chief ended up being a squaw in the playoffs. No Billington to save him here.
His puck management was all about dump and chase and having your D bounce pucks off the boards so the opponents can shoot more pucks on net and then proclaim “look how many shots we blocked”

 

[HofT]

His style of play isn't aggressive enough

 

[Da Mash]

Start of the season

Berube “ I will not take the sticks out of their hands”

Then goes out and plays dump and chase and took the sticks out of the stars hands and gave them Rod Langway shine pad to block shots.

“Here 34 …we know you are hurt but can you play the PK . I know you never played it before and we have others to play it but here this another job. Sorry it wears you out at end of game blocking shots and all but that’s my system and I lied that I will put my players in position to succeed.