2025-26 NHL Thread

[Frank E]

Torts is like a rent-a-coach.

 

[dappleganger]

Honestly that was my first thought. Part of of bruins machine that always schools the leafs, and spent years with the AHL bruins so he's fully versed in the bruins system. 2 cup finals. It would be nice to see the leafs turned into a defensive and touch machine a la bruins.

Then on the other side is the weird stat that no coach has one a cup with a second team since Bowman.

Only 3 coaches have won cups with multiple teams in NHL history.

 

[Bender]

Honestly that was my first thought. Part of of bruins machine that always schools the leafs, and spent years with the AHL bruins so he's fully versed in the bruins system. 2 cup finals. It would be nice to see the leafs turned into a defensive and touch machine a la bruins.

Then on the other side is the weird stat that no coach has one a cup with a second team since Bowman.

I get that but what's the alternative? I think if we hire Cassidy or DeBoer we will be held back by roster construction and not coaching.

 

[Joe S.]

Only 3 coaches have won cups with multiple teams in NHL history.

Then it's not such a weird stat I suppose.

 

[Joe S.]

I get that but what's the alternative? I think if we hire Cassidy or DeBoer we will be held back by roster construction and not coaching.

I think either would be fine. But to hire a coach before a GM would be odd. That's, assuming Treliving is gone, which I'm not entirely sure will happen.

 

[herman]

They should hire President, then GM, then Coach, so there is strategic and tactical alignment for the vision. Currently their vision has no operational strategy (other than waiting) and nothing effective is being executed, and the players are generally just complying with the bare minimum of the system because it requires a great deal more motivation to make work.

Hiring a president doesn't necessarily need to wait until the end of this season which means they're shopping for executives under contract at the moment. Their waffling is forcing two lame ducks to try to pilot this shipwreck in a constructive manner (it's not working). Maybe Rogers (not the full owners yet) is just generating a reason to clean house and scrub payroll.

 

[Guilt Trip]

That's 3 coach firings that Marner can notch on his bedpost.

I know this has nothing to do with Marner, but felt funny to just post that.

Draisaitl's on his 7th coach. McD on his 5th....pretty funny seeing McD has only been in the league 1 more year then the Leafs core....Drai 2years.