The Leafs are on pace for 32 coaching penalties.

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Sure sure you'd just piss away a few million, get real man.

He's under contract if they fire him he still gets paid.

 

[Maple Leaf]

How is such a thing even possible under this elite coach

 

[Sypher04]

This is a seriously hot narrative "coaches penalties"

The real question is Keefe finally going to be able to discipline these guys and get them under control, or is it too late?

Any new coach coming in will have to have a green light to use his bench or the press box. All those too many men penalties are due to a team that lacks discipline.

You guys just wrote off that apology last year like it was nothing. It wasnt nothing it threw a huge wrench into Keefes ability to coach this team. I will say this and that is whoever ordered him to do that has to own this teams lack of discipline.

There isn’t and never has been any evidence that Keefe has been ordered to walk back any of his comments. It’s far more likely he chose to walk them back himself because generally calling out your players to the media doesn’t help anything and the media here is like a dog on a bone, really likes to pile on. The most likely scenario is that he probably regretted throwing out the original sound bite even if it was an accurate display of his feelings.

The reality is he’s said worse things both before and after the comment you are referring to, so to assume he was pressured to walk back this specific one is kind of ridiculous