Mike Babcock fired as Toronto Maple Leafs' Head Coach

Deleted member 23212 · Nov 20, 2019

"Today, we made the decision to relieve Mike Babcock of his coaching duties and named Sheldon Keefe our new head coach," Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan said in the team's press release. "Over parts of the last five seasons, Mike has played an integral role in changing the direction of our franchise."

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/maple-leafs-fire-head-coach-mike-babcock/

Honestly, I don't understand why they ever gave him such a high salary. I am a Red Wings fan myself and to be honest I think a big reason why he was successful with them was because of how great their roster was (they came off of 3 Cups with Scotty Bowman) and once their talent started to fade they were just barely a playoff team. What are NHL ERA's thoughts on the matter?

BZL8 · Nov 20, 2019

Fleury claims a victim.

UnpopularBlargh · Nov 20, 2019

Wrong person was fired. Should've let Dubas go.

zombiejames · Nov 20, 2019

UnpopularBlargh said:
Wrong person was fired. Should've let Dubas go.

Dubas isn't the one anchoring Rielly with Ceci for half a game, or putting out the fourth line when they're down by a goal with three minutes left.

Babcock was done.

The Bookerman · Nov 20, 2019

Wow.. that sucks. Babcock is/was one of the best coaches in the NHL.

Deleted member 13496 · Nov 20, 2019

zombiejames said:
Dubas isn't the one anchoring Rielly with Ceci for half a game, or putting out the fourth line when they're down by a goal with three minutes left.

Babcock was done.

Or pulling the goalie when fucking BOSTON has possession.

Trey · Nov 20, 2019

How the mighty have fallen.

Sanjuro · Nov 20, 2019

He had to go. This team was ready to compete this season.

UnpopularBlargh · Nov 20, 2019

zombiejames said:
Dubas isn't the one anchoring Rielly with Ceci for half a game, or putting out the fourth line when they're down by a goal with three minutes left.

Babcock was done.

I'm not saying Babcock is without fault. There's more than enough blame to go around. Imo the Leafs have regressed as a team under Dubas and he's definitely next on the chopping block if things don't turn around.

Solo · Nov 20, 2019

The Bookerman said:
Wow.. that sucks. Babcock is/was one of the best coaches in the NHL.

Hell no. He is a dinosaur that only won when coaching super teams.

jbug617 · Nov 20, 2019

Maybe not a smart decision to spend close to 50% of your cap on 4 forwards.

Equippedwithtowel · Nov 20, 2019

lol the hubris of trying to win with the laffs sunk him in the end.

forget it babs, it's Toronto

AkimboChainz · Nov 20, 2019

Jeff Blashill outlasting Babcock, just as everybody suspected

RC. · Nov 20, 2019

Solo said:
Hell no. He is a dinosaur that only won when coaching super teams.

But I thought the Leafs were a super team.

Solo · Nov 20, 2019

RC. said:
But I thought the Leafs were a super team.

Trust the Shanaplan!

DopeyFish · Nov 20, 2019

RC. said:
But I thought the Leafs were a super team.

Offensively yes

but the problem was he made lines of grinders here so he just overplayed those lines totally murdering that offense

if we had dan cleary on the top line, that line would be on the ice for 25 minutes a night

BringBackSonics · Nov 20, 2019

I'm seeing Babcock popping up in my nhl Seattle twitter feed. Not sure that is what we need.

DopeyFish · Nov 20, 2019

BringBackSonics said:
I'm seeing Babcock popping up in my nhl Seattle twitter feed. Not sure that is what we need.

YOU WILL ENJOY THE REAL GUD HUMAN BEANS... and the GUD PROS

Wingfan19 · Nov 20, 2019

BringBackSonics said:
I'm seeing Babcock popping up in my nhl Seattle twitter feed. Not sure that is what we need.

Oh fuck, no no no no no. But I guess it's gonna happen since he coached here in his WHL days.

JLP101 · Nov 20, 2019

Hockey is the worst offender that if a team struggles the coach is sacked. Whatever happened to giving someone a chance to pull through.

BringBackSonics · Nov 20, 2019

Wingfan19 said:
Oh fuck, no no no no no. But I guess it's gonna happen since he coached here in his WHL days.

Holland was all but assured to be in Seattle as well, I'm glad that didn't happen

HamSandwich · Nov 20, 2019

UnpopularBlargh said:
Wrong person was fired. Should've let Dubas go.

Clearly not. This team isn't suited for Babcock. His schemes and his questionable decisions were leading this team in the wrong direction.

HamSandwich · Nov 20, 2019

Pakkidis said:
Hockey is the worst offender that if a team struggles the coach is sacked. Whatever happened to giving someone a chance to pull through.

He's shown time and time again he won't change and the same results happen. This should've happened on July 1

nihilence · Nov 20, 2019

I wonder if Garrett Sparks or any of the other players let go by him are laughing.

They will bounce back, the team is stacked. Look at Edmonton, up and down and back up. Having talent is one thing, you have to get the chemistry to gel.

Thorn · Nov 20, 2019

I wouldn't mind him going back to Detroit.

HamSandwich · Nov 20, 2019

nihilence said:
I wonder if Garrett Sparks or any of the other players let go by him are laughing.

They will bounce back, the team is attacked. Look at Edmonton, up and down and back up. Having talent is one thing, you have to get the chemistry to gel.

Mike Commodore I'm sure is having a blast.

Precious Tritium · Nov 20, 2019

nihilence said:
I wonder if Garrett Sparks or any of the other players let go by him are laughing.

They will bounce back, the team is attacked. Look at Edmonton, up and down and back up. Having talent is one thing, you have to get the chemistry to gel.

Sparks doesn't have anyone to blame. Just didn't play well.

Something needed to change, team has been terrible.

Scuffed · Nov 20, 2019

Good. This is the pecking order so now the heat is on the rest of them. I think they improve.

Maxim726x · Nov 20, 2019

As long as Tavares never wins anything, I'm happy.

Hopefully the team is mired in mediocrity until he retires.

deftones r cool · Nov 20, 2019

AkimboChainz said:
Jeff Blashill outlasting Babcock, just as everybody suspected

Wonder what Don Cherry has to say about all this...

Oh, wait... no I don't.

Sanjuro · Nov 20, 2019

Solo said:
Hell no. He is a dinosaur that only won when coaching super teams.

Claude?

lunarworks · Nov 20, 2019

deftones r cool said:
Wonder what Don Cherry has to say about all this...

Oh, wait... no I don't.

He's starting a podcast, where he can rant and ramble for 30+ minutes instead of just 5 minutes. I can't even imagine.

Randomly Generated · Nov 20, 2019

lunarworks said:
He's starting a podcast, where he can rant and ramble for 30+ minutes instead of just 5 minutes. I can't even imagine.

I wonder if he'll plug MeUndies and Zip Recruiter.

Serpico99 · Nov 20, 2019

This will fix their defense and goalie tandem.... oh and let us not forget the passengers

Marvie · Nov 20, 2019

Solo said:
Hell no. He is a dinosaur that only won when coaching super teams.

Joel Quenneville?

CrankyJay · Nov 20, 2019

Pakkidis said:
Hockey is the worst offender that if a team struggles the coach is sacked. Whatever happened to giving someone a chance to pull through.

Toronto's cup window is now. There's no time to give a guy a chance to pull through before they lose their players.

megachao24 · Nov 20, 2019

Pakkidis said:
Hockey is the worst offender that if a team struggles the coach is sacked. Whatever happened to giving someone a chance to pull through.

I'll argue association football/soccer is worse.

SeriousGoku · Nov 20, 2019

Maxim726x said:
As long as Tavares never wins anything, I'm happy.

Hopefully the team is mired in mediocrity until he retires.

You Islander fans are a salty, SALTY bunch. Lol!

Kernel · Nov 20, 2019

zombiejames said:
Dubas isn't the one anchoring Rielly with Ceci for half a game, or putting out the fourth line when they're down by a goal with three minutes left.

LOL, Ceci always finds a coach that gives all the rope in the world.

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