Damien Cox: It’s time for the Maple Leafs to fire coach Sheldon Keefe and bring in Bruce Boudreau

[ToneDog]

insinuating a top 4 distribution of salary cap is problematic with the performance of bottom lines isn't something that I would entertain given the range of high producing players playing for low cap. To be clear, there are more solutions to players such as Engval, Kerfoot, Holl et al than throwing more money at the problem that is taken by the top 4. How about moving out some of these guys and finding some hungrier, smarter and more aggressive sparkplugs. The league, & the AHL are full of them.

Clearly easier said than done as Dubas has pretty much failed numerous times since trading Kadri, Kappy and AJ. Would help if we had some of these players in house.

You also have to ask yourself why couldn't we afford to keep Hyman, and Mikheyev ? A first to dump Marleau cost us Jarvis. Cancer cost us Amirov.

Another problem is that JT is nowhere near an $11m player.

The hockey Gods hate Leaf nation.

 

[Brew]

Clearly easier said than done as Dubas has pretty much failed numerous times since trading Kadri, Kappy and AJ. Would help if we had some of these players in house.

You also have to ask yourself why couldn't we afford to keep Hyman, and Mikheyev ? A first to dump Marleau cost us Jarvis. Cancer cost us Amirov.

Another problem is that JT is nowhere near an $11m player.

The hockey Gods hate Leaf nation.

Sure, I agree that losing Hyman and Kadri sucks, but AJ and Kappy being gone are no issue.

Marleau had to be moved to sign our RFAs, but Lou signed Marleau to that abysmal contract, not Dubas. Losing out on Jarvis sucks, sure, but we lost a series to the f***ing Blue Jackets which is far more embarrassing, and that’s not on Dubas.

JT has outplayed Matthews imo, and that contract was big, but let’s not go saying he’s not matching it, the guy has been lights out this year after a full, healthy offseason.

 

[Notsince67]

Clearly easier said than done as Dubas has pretty much failed numerous times since trading Kadri, Kappy and AJ. Would help if we had some of these players in house.

You also have to ask yourself why couldn't we afford to keep Hyman, and Mikheyev ? A first to dump Marleau cost us Jarvis. Cancer cost us Amirov.

Another problem is that JT is nowhere near an $11m player.

The hockey Gods hate Leaf nation.

Kadri I get. His trade was a disaster. Kappy and AJ never really saw the success after they left the leafs. I was pretty meh about them. Hyman looks bad now because he is having a career year. 7 years is a long contract.
Mikheyev is not the guy that can solve a finishing issue.
I am by no means a supporter of mgmt. That said, every idiot can name elite players in the league...the problem is acquiring them and keeping them. The hard work is sorting the wheat from the chaff among the non elite players. Kerfoot is dead to me. Get rid of him. Holl is dead to me...get rid of him too. Engval just gets in the way from my view of real hockey players on the ice....gone. Murray can go too once he gets healthy. Fragile goalies are always a problem. Every lower tier player should be fighting for their job every day. Keefe should be benching guys more often. Sitting Holl tonight is a good beginning but it should have been done earlier.
We don't need to find players at 5-6mm to play 3rd and fourth line. We could trade two of the higher priced plugs, easily replace them with better producing and cheaper players and use that cash for a second line LW.

 

[Nineteen67]

Sure enough, he was on McCown‘s podcast yesterday.

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

Have you seen his recent Tweets? Cox is completely insignificant and using performative virtue signaling in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.

 

[francis246]

Clearly easier said than done as Dubas has pretty much failed numerous times since trading Kadri, Kappy and AJ. Would help if we had some of these players in house.

You also have to ask yourself why couldn't we afford to keep Hyman, and Mikheyev ? A first to dump Marleau cost us Jarvis. Cancer cost us Amirov.

Another problem is that JT is nowhere near an $11m player.

The hockey Gods hate Leaf nation.

I’ve said this before, the leafs were never going to pick Seth Jarvis. Amirov was their guy. We picked Amirov 2 picks after, I doubt they had Seth Jarvis rated higher. So I get the trading first to pick Marleau thing but I doubt we would have picked Jarvis even if we had that pick.

 

[Dekes For Days]

I’ve said this before, the leafs were never going to pick Seth Jarvis. Amirov was their guy. We picked Amirov 2 picks after, I doubt they had Seth Jarvis rated higher. So I get the trading first to pick Marleau thing but I doubt we would have picked Jarvis even if we had that pick.

The pick also only ended up there because of abrupt changes to the playoff format and how draft ranking was going to be determined, that happened post-trade due to the pandemic.
He's also basically been Kerfoot without the PKing this year.

 

[ACC1224]

I’ve said this before, the leafs were never going to pick Seth Jarvis. Amirov was their guy. We picked Amirov 2 picks after, I doubt they had Seth Jarvis rated higher. So I get the trading first to pick Marleau thing but I doubt we would have picked Jarvis even if we had that pick.

.....or not trade the 1st and have both

 

[Dekes For Days]

.....or not trade the 1st and have both

1st had to be traded, thanks to Lou.
Also, keeping Marleau would have meant gutting the team, and not only would that change our own pick placement, but we likely wouldn't have had Kapanen to trade for the 15th.

 

[Leaf Lander]

Agreed keefe is toast

Bring in Trotz split up the top 5 players trade 2

 

[notDatsyuk]

Agreed keefe is toast

Bring in Trotz split up the top 5 players trade 2

Brilliant, except that the two who should be traded are the two who can't be traded.

 

[TheRumble]

Damien Cox definitely posts on this forum.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

His reasoning was their most recent loss to the Blue Jackets, along with losing twice to the Bruins the past three weeks, losing two times this season against the Canadiens, getting creamed at home by the Senators and their loss against the Red Wings.

Damien Cox: It’s time for the Maple Leafs to fire coach Sheldon Keefe and bring in Bruce Boudreau

This team clearly needs a jolt. On five occasions this century, a coaching change has taken a team over the top and right to the Stanley Cup.

www.thestar.com

I have not heard that name in so long.

Damien Cox wants a new coach that is more fun to write shit about.

 

[Racer88]

Damien Cox =

Bwahahahahahahaha

 

[banks]

It's time for whoever is employing Damien Cox to fire Damien Cox and bring in anyone else.

 

[ACC1224]

It's time for whoever is employing Damien Cox to fire Damien Cox and bring in anyone else.

Can't see that happening, he's pretty successful at what he does.

 

[crump]

It’s time to fire Damian Cox into the sun.

 

[thewave]

Did I wake up in 2013?

Cox pulls back the Boudreau suggestion immediately in the article just saying there's a need for a change. He might not be wrong.

Who cares anymore.

This is the year that they go deep or win and rogers ignite the core players to keep the fibe alive. If they lose in the first two rounds for sure players are walking. Without meaningful gains with this kind of group, only incompetence can be to blame. People don't like working under incompetence, it's annoying.

 

[Antropovsky]

Brilliant, except that the two who should be traded are the two who can't be traded.

Marners nmc kicks in this summer right?

Who cares anymore.

This is the year that they go deep or win and rogers ignite the core players to keep the fibe alive. If they lose in the first two rounds for sure players are walking. Without meaningful gains with this kind of group, only incompetence can be to blame. People don't like working under incompetence, it's annoying.

If the leafs beat Tampa and lose in the second, I think that will be seen as progress and no significant changes made.

This "phase" is nearing a close regardless. Nylander will be up for a significant raise and unless the cap goes up a lot we won't afford all four. If we can't get it done with the four, how will we get it done with just 3?

 

[thewave]

Marners nmc kicks in this summer right?


If the leafs beat Tampa and lose in the second, I think that will be seen as progress and no significant changes made.

This "phase" is nearing a close regardless. Nylander will be up for a significant raise and unless the cap goes up a lot we won't afford all four. If we can't get it done with the four, how will we get it done with just 3?

Our smug little GM, Kyle De'Dubas has masterfully worked us into a double bind dilemma. It's not a no win scenario yet - I mean we haven't gone full Kobayashi Maru... but if Matthews leaves for nothing. That's about it.

 

[Leafblooded]

Damian Cox... Someone cancel this microaggression already

 

[Antropovsky]

Our smug little GM, Kyle De'Dubas has masterfully worked us into a double bind dilemma. It's not a no win scenario yet - I mean we haven't gone full Kobayashi Maru... but if Matthews leaves for nothing. That's about it.

Dubas has a tendency to wait everything out too long. For instance Bunting is a ufa at yeas end, but still no contract. Bunting will soon have all the leverage and of course he bet on himself he played with Marner and Matthews all last season and was penciled in again to do so. However had he been rumored in the summer to be shipped to columbus, maybe he'd have signed in the offseason for something reasonable for both sides.

I don't know, seems like dubas is in the Chicago blackhawks mode of losing depth, and then slowly having none. Except the leafs don't have the cups like the blackhawks did.

 

[thewave]

Dubas has a tendency to wait everything out too long. For instance Bunting is a ufa at yeas end, but still no contract. Bunting will soon have all the leverage and of course he bet on himself he played with Marner and Matthews all last season and was penciled in again to do so. However had he been rumored in the summer to be shipped to columbus, maybe he'd have signed in the offseason for something reasonable for both sides.

I don't know, seems like dubas is in the Chicago blackhawks mode of losing depth, and then slowly having none. Except the leafs don't have the cups like the blackhawks did.

Yes this is exactly his approach. He isn't a very clever GM at all IMHO. I know I have in the past compared him to being more of the fortunate Dave Nonis. Both are Potato's but one was handed a dream team and the other the Potato Chip muncher himself, Philsbury Kessel.

 

[notDatsyuk]

Marners nmc kicks in this summer right?

Um, I was referring to the two who currently have NMCs.

 

[Jojalu]

If we lose in the first round for the 7th year in a row you fire Keefe and Dubas then take a serious look at Shanny

Wouldn't Shanahan be the first to go? He is the only one that has been in charge for all 6 playoff exits