The Keefe criticism seems odd to me. He's put the Leafs at 113 point pace in his two partial seasons. He's 5-7 in the postseason with four games going to OT. Obviously results are the deciding factor on what you do but he still hasn't had a full 82-game season with the team.
Fair or not, Keefe is tied to Dubas. If they flop again, Shanahan and Dubas will likely get the boot, and thus so will Keefe.
Depending on how the offseason goes I'm not even sure that will be the case. If they trade Marner this offseason and they flop...yeah I think they rebuild the front office. If they don't I think there is still room for the "break up the top of the roster" offseason.
6 first-round exits in a row would, I'm pretty sure, result in a house-cleaning in the management ranks.
I agree, and have said, that Dubas did everything he could this year to address team needs. He's made some bad moves like all GMs but I really liked what he did to the team, especially defensively. Nonetheless, he's out of excuses in terms of actually moving beyond just making the playoffs.
I agree, like I said I’m not a big dubas fan from the get go, but that’s me I am of the belief that defence wins championships and dubas and keefe want to build an offensive power house that can our score it’s defensive deficiency. I don’t think that really works, that might be because growing up I was a goaltender so I value defence more than most. Looking at this team while the defence is better than last season it’s still not championship worthy Brodie really helped Riely and bogo (who is not under contract for next season) did all the little things right defensively. I find there’s a real lack of defensive defence men on the team that can eat minutes in tight games and you can really trust in your own zone, muzzin and bogo are good at that but they’re older, I starting to trust holl a bit, dermott we’ll they turn over says it all and same goes for sandin, not saying there bad but those bad turn overs at times that you just can’t do that.
This was definitely the best leafs teams we’ve seen but I still didn’t see a Stanley cup contender when I watched them, I seen the best team in Canada. Even then though when they went trough that little slump this season both my cousin who is as big if not bigger leafs fan as I am and myself said this team isn’t going to beat Montreal, of course after they beat Montreal those last two games we kind of changed our mind and thought we were just overreacting. This team is flawed all teams are but I don’t think they are minor tweaks away from winning a cup, minor tweaks from a first round win maybe but that’s not the end goal it’s to win a cup, but here in leafs nation we’d probably celebrate that first round win like it was a cup, and that might just prolong our misery and we win a round that year but we still aren’t close to winning a cup.
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