Sheldon Keefe hired as new head coach of the Devils

[Golden_Jet]

That All for Nothing documentary was pretty good.
NHL is doing a different one next year, but don’t think it concentrates on a specific team.

 

[Channelcat]

Fired Leafs don’t stay unemployed long… unless you’re Babcock.

I'd be taking my paid year off.

 

[JimmyApples]

Really good hire for the Devils. He was a great coach in Toronto, with a poorly built team.

 

[Forge]

A team thst can't win in the play offs hires a coach that can't win in the play offs.
Nice move

They just won a round last year (the devils).

It's actually a team that can't make the playoffs very often hiring a guy that can't win in the playoffs

 

[FrozenKing18]

Good hire.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

Before the thread becomes toxic, I think Keefe is an outstanding coach. He has flaws like all coaches, but I think he is going to do really well with the Devils. He needs to learn to adapt in a playoff series as that is his biggest red flag.

Otherwise, I think he learned a lot through mistakes and has a lot of experience with high talent rosters. Excellent hire.

He certainly seemed to get the Leafs playing good defensively despite marginal defensive talent

 

[Divine]

I'd be taking my paid year off.

Babcock is a mastermind at that.

Got fired. Took the next 3 years off getting paid. As soon as he his old contract ended he took another job and got fired before he even coached another game getting another multi-year paid vacation.

He certainly seemed to get the Leafs playing good defensively despite marginal defensive talent

At the expense of all their offense. He had the Leafs playing defence first hockey with everyone cheating for defence. It makes the defence look better but the offense look a lot worse.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

Babcock is a mastermind at that.

Got fired. Took the next 3 years off getting paid. As soon as he his old contract ended he took another job and got fired before he even coached another game getting another multi-year paid vacation.



At the expense of all their offence. He had the Leafs playing defence first hockey with everyone back. It makes the defence look better but the offence look a lot worse.

well. it was fine in regular season, but yah, it dried up in the playoffs

 

[Divine]

well. it was fine in regular season, but yah, it dried up in the playoffs

The Leafs weren’t a strong defensive team in the regular season though. They completely change their game for the playoffs against their strengths.

Keefe prefers low event hockey in the playoffs. Every year the Leafs score and allow way fewer goals in the playoffs than the regular season. Their scoring chances drop in the playoffs but their scoring chances against drop. Keefe prefers that even when his team isn’t built for that.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Devils will deal with how to go deeper in the playoffs if/when they actually becomes a problem.

They still need to establish themselves as a yearly playoff lock first, something Keefe obviously has had past success in doing.

 

[OurlordAndSaviorKuch]

That didn’t take long

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

This one was much better … still didn’t matter

This is still more fire than Lindy/Travis Green showed in the past 3 years

 

[Raging Bull]

He's a good coach, good guy. Wish him well in Jersey.

 

[sxvnert]

Cue up the Kessel tier fawning over him for the next four years.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

I thought Keefe would do well with more of a meat and potatoes roster. We’ll see how it goes for him in the postseason with the Devils.
It will be an interesting storyline to follow next season.

 

[sxvnert]

might do better, without having to deal with the prima donnas.

Lol none of those in new jersey

 

[JKG33]

Before the thread becomes toxic, I think Keefe is an outstanding coach. He has flaws like all coaches, but I think he is going to do really well with the Devils. He needs to learn to adapt in a playoff series as that is his biggest red flag.

Otherwise, I think he learned a lot through mistakes and has a lot of experience with high talent rosters. Excellent hire.

Yea if you want someone to come in and coddle your players, disappoint in the playoffs, and make your team worse than the sum of its parts, Keefe is your man

 

[Aoko]

I think this is a good hire. He's not nearly the bad coach some people around here believe. He did the best he could with a team full of diva's who choke under pressure. This is a good hire for NJ.

Going from Lindy Ruff/Travis Green to Keefe is going to be a monstrous difference. I expect teams won't be able to counter the Devils' offense so easily now. It was getting brutal under Lindy.

Give this Devils team a Saros or an Ullmark, and this team will be a Stanley Cup dark horse. And maybe one more competent defensive defenseman.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Yea if you want someone to come in and coddle your players, disappoint in the playoffs, and make your team worse than the sum of its parts, Keefe is your man

Should remove the Leafs from your tagline.

 

[JKG33]

Should remove the Leafs from your tagline.

Can we even call you a Leafs fan when you don't even want the team to win?

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Well atleast it's not Travis Green

 

[HockeyVirus]

Can we even call you a Leafs fan when you don't even want the team to win?

I haven't seen you post a single positive thing about the team is all I meant. All good, let's not do this I shouldn't have said anything.

 

[HBK27]

A team thst can't win in the play offs hires a coach that can't win in the play offs.
Nice move

Huh? Devils have been to the playoffs just once in the past 6 seasons and won a round.

 

[AvroArrow]

Keefe learned on the job, he's not a horrible coach. His biggest flaw has always been he overthinks and doubts himself and ends up making a mistake.

Really good defensive coach, a lot of attention to detail, but too soft for my liking, also has struggled in the playoffs.

I think he'll do just fine in NJ.

 

[Aoko]

A team thst can't win in the play offs hires a coach that can't win in the play offs.
Nice move

They spanked the Rangers without a real goalie and with Lindy still employed just last season, lol.