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Series Talk: Sheldon Keefe: in memoriam

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This joker shifts the lineups in the preseason, yet when Marner and Matthews have their worst game of the entire year in the most important game of the year, he keeps em together the entire time.

Keefe should be automatically fired.
 
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Arzak said:
Husszú görcs

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Maybe it's all part of the plan.

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" It refers to the strategy of letting your opponent win points early to give them a sense of overconfidence, thus exposing a much easier target for you later."
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Lol I thought what you wrote was another ad on the site but in hungarian.

I just looked it up, never knew that series had this many hungarian references.
Btw it's hosszú (like Katinka Hosszú), not husszú. It means long.
 
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May have something to do with the fact that we were still getting a ton of chances but just weren't scoring. The team we saw in game 3 looked done for though unfortunately.
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Yeah, especially M&M, so you break them up before the game is over and you find yourself in an 0-3 hole.
 
Keefe should be gone. Problem is that there are no sexy names out there. There were a ton of them last offseason, such as Trotz, Cassidy, and Montgomery, and it was said as much at the time.

Dubas chose to double down on Keefe instead. Not sure what the move is now, as I want no part of retread coaches like Lavi or Gallant.
 
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Isaac Nootin said:
Keefe is 166 - 71 - 30 in the NHL

Playoff failures aside, he'll be coaching in the NHL as soon as next year if/when he's let go.
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Who tf wouldn't have that regular season record with our regular season superstars. Put a monkey behind the bench Leafs can still coach themselves into the top 10.


In one ear out the other when Keefes record is brought up.
 
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Hiring a young rookie coach (started coaching in OHL in 2012, had 5 years of minor league player experience, was never mentored by any NHL coaches, went about as well as expected.

Tortorella, Maurice, and Cooper were taking candy from a baby. Maurice has been coaching in the NHL since the late 80s, when Keefe was an 8 year old.

Its shocking that Shanahan hired a rookie GM and let that rookie GM hire a young rookie coach.... At a period when we have never had so much talent.

It's so shockingly bad that you wonder if Shanahan could be gone as well.
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To me that's exactly where it needs to start. Shanahan also had no experience running a team and our idiot board of owners sitting in their ivory tower thought that was a good idea. Then it just trickles down from there: "you get a chance, and YOU get a chance!"

It's no wonder there's failure year after year, all 3 idiots need to go but it certainly starts with Shanahan.
And the country club manager as head coach must follow immediately; he lost whatever little influence he may have had in the room when the one time he was rightly critical (in the softest way possible) of our primadonnas he walked it back immediately.
 
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Skullz said:
Keefe should be gone. Problem is that there are no sexy names out there. There were a ton of them last offseason, such as Trotz, Cassidy, and Montgomery, and it was said as much at the time.

Dubas chose to double down on Keefe instead. Not sure what the move is now, as I want no part of retread coaches like Lavi or Gallant.
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Keefe is doing a bad job. There are probably hundreds of coaches who could do better, but before some doorknob asks me who, it’s not the fans’ job to identify, recruit, interview and evaluate candidates.
 
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Anyone catch the first thing Keefe said in his post game...He opened with "Florida defended really well, but obviously, Matthews hit the crossbar seconds into the game, which could've changed that narrative"

Lol... It was a post Keefe, posts aren't goals. Even if he scored, your team can't hold a $%&#% lead and likely would've given it up anyways. Your team was thoroughly dominated too.

Yet another dumb statement, similar to the respect in the handshake line.
 
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Mark Masters: Sheldon Keefe will help Maple Leafs stars 'free their minds' with season on the line | TSN

Maple Leafs’ core four players Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares and William Nylander have yet to score in their second-round series against Florida. With the Panthers up 3-0 heading into Wednesday’s Game 4, Toronto head coach Sheldon Keefe says he’s trying to get his stars to focus...
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Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares and William Nylander have yet to score in Toronto's second-round series against Florida and Sheldon Keefe was asked what he can do to get his stars shining again.

"Give our guys the freedom to free their minds and just focus on the things that they can control," the coach said. "They have had a lot of scoring chances in this series that haven't fallen and haven't gone their way. They were dominant in many ways in Game 2. It was not as good in Game 3 and yet, particularly the Matthews and Marner line in the third period — especially the first 15 minutes or so — every single shift of theirs was spent in the offensive zone for the most part. They had some good looks, some good zone time and a lot of positive momentum for them and the team. Those are the things I want them to be focused on."

According to NHL Stats, this is the first time since Tavares joined the Leafs in 2018 that Toronto's core four forwards have all been held without a goal for three consecutive games.

Matthews, Marner and Tavares each fired two shots on net on Sunday while Nylander put one puck on target.

"Just like the rest of our team, right now the focus has got to be on doing what we can control and focus on the things that really, truly matter in terms of the process and details of the game," said Keefe. "The moment anybody gets bogged down with the fact they haven't scored or they start to think about things outside the little details and habits and the competitiveness and work ethic and all those things that give you a chance to succeed and put you in position to score, the moment you get distracted and lose focus of those things, now you're really working uphill."
 
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