I think this sums it up. Keefe isn't bad, I think he'll be good coach in this league for years. Might win something on his journey, but this is best league in the world and I don't know if his up there with the best. It's sad that our veteran coach ended up being egomaniac brick, because I think there is a reason why we started this rebuild with Babcock. Trotz would play in that same league experience wise, hopefully not ego wise.
What did he say?
Keefe said something along the line of ‘we earned TB respect during the handshake.’ Just really weird he came out and said that. As if TB didn’t show any respects to Leafs.
That's nice and I can see we earned it, but it wasn't the goal. Stupid comment, though I wouldn't judge him by it, but by the way he coached our team. I think it's time for coaching change at least.
A coaching change might be the only play left that can make an immediate impact for the better, and certainly easier - if Trotz is interested - than a major personnel move.
I never said responsible. I said Keefe instilled this idea that things would be violent and gave Simmonds the green light to run around a bit. It's Simmonds fault he did it stupidly but who sent him in that role in the first place? Overhyped violence and throwing bodies around in the crease after whistle (2 penalties in 1 game for that)
The boyz won't listen to a guy like Trotz. They'll sulk and complain and do even less to deserve their $40+ million.
If that's true they need to see it for themselves. If they do have that personality trait as a professional then we can finally be at ease trading some of the core away. Don't want bums like that on the team.
Well the refs tried screwing the Leafs in game 1 with the 5 minute penalty and when they see how that worked against them, they figure to put 2 guys in the box at once for almost the whole 2 minutes (they already tried that in game 5 but didn't work). The first one is 100% clearly a phantom as Kampfs stick did not touch his face, matter of fact we should have had a PP there for embellishment. No need to discuss the second one which Hedman self-induced because if the phantom one wasn't called, this one wouldn't have happened.
The players need someone coaching them that they can really believe in. I know they might like Keefe and all...but at the same time our players can't seem to be big when its needed most. If the players don't have it in them, then at least have a coach who has won it all as confidence maker for them. Whether that is Trotz or somebody else...I am not sure. But I do know that the players know that Keefe has no idea on how to win in the playoffs unless he is playing with a stacked deck like with the AHL teams he had. He has not won up here...no matter what his reg season record says...he has not won up here. They need someone who has to lead them. His tactics are not great either. He should have told the players to shoot when in doubt...get rebound goals...don't try to make a fancy goal out of it every single time. We did the same thing in game 7 last year...nobody went to the net and blocked the goalies vision...we stayed on the outside hoping the other team would make a mistake that never came.
