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What major coaching change did the Leafs make recently?
The Steve Dangle Podcast. With your hosts, Steve Dangle, Adam Wilde, and Jesse Blake.
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Well, well, well, another big news day for actually a lot of teams. It's been a it's been a bonkers week, but we're going to lead Leafs because they fired their coach this morning. Yeah. And that. Hey, listen, if the John Shiker regime has decided we now release information at 10 a.m., I'm thrilled about it. You got my vote all day, all night. Pretty cool. As any other era, they would have waited till three o'clock and we would have been boned. Any other one era? I'm sorry, it's an era. It's been a while. Now, they made sure in the press release, guys, to say that, you know, it wasn't Craig's acumen as a coach. It wasn't his character. It was just a different organization. Let me say this. This is how liked Craig Berube is.
Sure. Because even when they fire him, they're like, man, but we really like this guy. It's like what we've been saying here. Like, I liked Brad. He had to go. I like Craig. He has to go. Now, Jesse, you dealt with Craig on a regular basis. You got to read first. Oh, I got to read. Oh, OK. Well, 60 year old went 86 to the law. Craig is a tremendous coach and an even better person, says Maple Leafs general manager John Chayka. The decision more reflects an organizational shift and an opportunity for a fresh start than it is an evaluation of Craig. We are grateful for his leadership, professionalism and commitment to the Maple Leafs organization. And we wish Craig and his family nothing but the best moving forward.
See, good guy, wrong fit. Jesse, you dealt with Craig every day last season. You liked him, right? On a personal level? Yes. Seems like a likable human, funny guy, that sort of thing. Like everybody universally loved by people in the organization as a person. Everybody, I think, at the end disagreed with his philosophy on how to coach a hockey team.
What are the implications of the Leafs firing Craig Berube?
But as a person, very kind.
Yeah, I like that the Leafs press release ends at nothing but the best going forward. The NHL.com one then goes in the very next sentence. The Maple Leafs, 32-36-14, ended the season 0-6-1 to finish last in the Atlantic Division, 15th in the Eastern Conference, and missed the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 2016-17.
First to last, baby. First to last. Quite the center. Only us. Only us. We were number one. We were number one in losing points this year. Nobody. Nobody beat us at that. Suck on that, playoff teams. First overall. So let's talk a little bit about, I don't know that we need to talk about Berube's tenure because we spent the entire season talking about it. Steve, you shot a video this morning. I did. And now it's going to play into the Edmonton story, which we're going to get to in like 10 minutes. But the organizational shift is the key part of the John Chayka sentence, right? Sure. And we still don't know, because the press conference was so haywire, what the Leafs intend to be.
There's going to be another one in an hour. A Leafs one? Yeah, Chayka. Oh, is he going to talk? Chayka is talking.
Oh, okay. This is breaking news. Oh, my God. I didn't even know that. There you go. We might have to pause at some point. Yeah, we may. I look at this and I think, okay, so they don't want to play what they were playing. The Brad style is they wanted to get big and rangy defensemen who are slow and take up a lot of space. Snot. Snot. But they didn't play with snot at all. Low scoring chances. And they also didn't do that either. There was a lot of scoring chances. They just kept going one way. How do you think this organization transitions now? Shika said specifically at the press conference. And again, I'm taking the bits and pieces that I can hold on to here. We got to build from the net out. And he said, rebuild the defense.
So I'm assuming they're going to get back to speed some.
Well, Chica's got a challenging job, as does every new GM. It's so rare that a GM takes over a situation that doesn't suck. The reason there was a job opening is because stuff sucks. Even when you planned it like Steen and St.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What major coaching change did the Leafs make recently?
0:05–1:53
2
What are the implications of the Leafs firing Craig Berube?
1:53–7:12
3
What led to the organizational shift in the Maple Leafs?
7:12–14:08
4
How is the hiring process for the Canucks described?
14:08–1:06:16
5
What are the implications of drafting Gavin McKenna first overall?
1:06:16–1:06:43
6
What are the potential impacts of Charlie Coyle's new contract?
1:06:43–1:07:55
7
How are the Sabres and Canadiens performing in their playoff series?
1:07:55–1:08:27
8
What strategies are the Ducks using against the Golden Knights?
1:08:27–2:10:46