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Spencer Carbery named Head Coach of Washington Capitals

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The Toronto Maple Leafs still don't know the fate of head coach Sheldon Keefe as they continue to search for a general manager. But now they know they'll be losing an assistant.

According to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman, Carbery is set to become the new head coach of the Washington Capitals.


Carbery had reportedly been interviewed for vacant head coaching positions with the New York Rangers and Anaheim Ducks. However, he ultimately settled on the Capitals, a franchise he had previously worked with.

Carbery served as head coach of Washington's AHL affiliate Hershey Bears franchise. During his tenure, Carbery led the club to a record of 104-50-9-8, good for a.658 points percentage. He was named AHL coach of the year in 2021 before departing in 2021 to become an assistant with the Maple Leafs.

Carbery helped run Toronto's offense and power-play duties during his time with the Maple Leafs. In his first season in Toronto, the Leafs had the best power play in the NHL at 27.3 percent. He followed that up with the league's second-best power-play efficiency at 26 percent.
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I would be just as happy with an assistant coach and powerplay architect who didn’t do the drop pass heavy zone entries. If someone had the free time to do it I’d love to see how much PP time was wasted season long in drop passing and not entering the zone faster.

Other than that, good for Carbery and best of luck in Washington.
 
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Good for him. It will be interesting to see how he makes out there with an aging core and their quest to get Ovechkin to #1 on the goal scoring list.
Might not be the ideal situation but he’s got his foot in the door.
 
It never hurts to have an assistant (coach or GM) in tow that is eventually capable of receiving that promotion. Of course, the downside to that will sometimes be found in said promotion occurring with another team. Good opportunity in a place of familiar surroundings for Carbery.
 
Seemed likely that he would be making the jumo sooner than later to head coaching territory. Leaf's had consistently amongst the top power plays. The Washington seems like it might be in a weird place for a few seasons, got to start somewhere I guess
 
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Menzinger said:
Seemed likely that he would be making the jumo sooner than later to head coaching territory. Leaf's had consistently amongst the top power plays. The Washington seems like it might be in a weird place for a few seasons, got to start somewhere I guess
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He was the head coach of the Washington AHL team, so there is some history there.

Carberry had the #2 PP in the league both last year, and over the past two years. The weakness seemed to be giving up short-handed opportunities to the opposition. But we gave up 8 Shorthanded goals, to the league average of 6.66.... so it's not like we were far off the average. We didn't give up any Shorties in the playoffs.

The criticism with this team, would be scoring in the playoffs when it's needed. I'm not really sure how you handicap who's fault that is... is it the assistant coach, the players? Carberry had a pretty good track record with us.... could we be even better? Who knows, time will tell.
 
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"One of the best powerplays" that for some reason repeatedly got extremely cold come playoff time.

Edit: Best of luck to him. Forgot that part :)
 
KeziaTML said:
Seeing our best assets slip away while retaining Keefe and Shanahan is so painful. Best of luck in Washington.
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Do you know how many people would have fits if the Leafs replaced a rookie HC with another rookie HC?

He is effectively WSH's version of Keefe except he had a brief NHL assistant coaching gig in the middle.

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"One of the best powerplays" that for some reason repeatedly got extremely cold come playoff time.

Edit: Best of luck to him. Forgot that part :)
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The Leafs have had 2 different HC's and at least 4 different PP coaches since 2016-2017... All with a similar pattern.

Maybe the system is not the problem.
 
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Good PP coach overall. The PP showed progress in the playoffs. I wasn't completely against the idea of promoting him to head coach, but it's alright. Hope he does well in Washington.
 
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Stephen said:
I would be just as happy with an assistant coach and powerplay architect who didn’t do the drop pass heavy zone entries. If someone had the free time to do it I’d love to see how much PP time was wasted season long in drop passing and not entering the zone faster.

Other than that, good for Carbery and best of luck in Washington.
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Now he gets to rejoin Rasmus Sandin to help run is PP in Washington. :wg:

I always felt bad for Spencer Carberry because in Toronto he had Morgan Rielly as the Leafs #1 PP Dman and Morgan's point shot couldn't break a pain of glass, which then took away a scoring threat and really made it a 4 on 4 down low. Once the playoffs begin and teams collapse into a tight box in front of their goalie and block out perimeter shots the PP (with limited opportunities) would struggle.

Other teams have that big hard shooting PP QB blasting away at the point at 100 mph adding and dimension that would need covering and preventing and stretch that contain box. Even if you don't score your odds of rebounds and greasy goals on rebounds increases and that is what you need to beat a hot goalie.
 
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