Leafs part ways with Berube
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Didn't Chayka say they spoke to something like 50+ candidates?
Chayka said there were 55 people either spoken to or reached out to in the preliminary stage. I'd imagine these were just brief introductory conversations to see if there was any mutual interest in the position. From there the first stage of actual interviews consisted of about 20 people.
herman
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Round 2 interviews are down to a shortlist of single digits (~5 per EF, LeBrun)
I'm thinking there's probably a Round 3 of the top 2 shortly after this. If the previous GM hire was anything to go by, they might take a forked approach: the best (experienced) traditional vs the best outside the box option and evaluate which one they envision bringing the team and organization to the next level.
While I appreciate the outside-the-box idea, I still think giving Pavelski, at this stage of his (currently non-exist) professional coaching career, the head coach job would be kind of insane.
Woodcroft as HC with Pavelski as an assistant would definitely be a banger though.
That's where I've landed on too. I really don't want anything to do with Patrick Roy though, but I wonder if his junior resume helps his cause. I personally wouldn't let it.
That's a good thought
I've seen a few coaching candidates ideas kicked around where the prospective coach gets some assistants that help to make it more attractive
For example (and I do not know enough about Giordano's effort to endorse this): maybe Giordano gets consideration for how he's helped the Marlies D or Gruden, etc, etc etc
Friedman talked about MLSE being concerned to have some experience in the coaching to help Chayka & Sundin. Hiring a good team of them would achieve that.
That doesn't surprise me
The musical chairs music for coaches is about to stop. With bully Babcock earmarked for Edmonton or the NHLPA, Toronto may be the only open seat left if Cassidy wants to coach in October. He's getting paid regardless.
Often, there's a scramble to get the best coach.
The Leafs may yet wind up with the 'best available' coach.
Or they will have had that option and went with new talent they encountered and were impressed by in the broad search process.
I like the position the Leafs find themselves in.
Joe S.
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Maybe they bring Cassidy back with one of those mission impossible masks.
On a side note, if Vegas wins he should get a ring and his name on the cup no? It also seems to me that Vegas is the type of team not to do that. Because they're dicks.
I definitely doubt they would put his name on the Cup, but getting a ring for him is something a decent team would do I think (so probably not that either).
There's some precedent here with Robbie Ftorek being fired with 8 games left in the regular season before the Devils won the Cup in 2000 and getting his name on the Cup, but he remained in the organization as a scout for the remainder of that season.
Tortorella has touted his team as a group that already knows how to win and what they have to do - downplaying Tortorella's role.
From that, there has been a fair amount of chatter in the media giving Cassidy credit for that quality in the team Tortorella inherited.
McPhee strikes me as sort of old school. He's a Quinn disciple (I do not mean that is a negative way). If there is any credible case for Cassidy deserving a ring, I think he'd get it with little hesitation. They know as well as anyone how hard it is to get a ring and I think they would respect anyone's effort that helped them do it.
With 32 teams, they have to spread it around because it is harder and harder to win many. Henri Richard's 11 Cups is probably one of the safest records in sports history.
From that, there has been a fair amount of chatter in the media giving Cassidy credit for that quality in the team Tortorella inherited.
McPhee strikes me as sort of old school. He's a Quinn disciple (I do not mean that is a negative way). If there is any credible case for Cassidy deserving a ring, I think he'd get it with little hesitation. They know as well as anyone how hard it is to get a ring and I think they would respect anyone's effort that helped them do it.
With 32 teams, they have to spread it around because it is harder and harder to win many. Henri Richard's 11 Cups is probably one of the safest records in sports history.
Joe S.
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Yeah I realized after I posted that the fired coach likely does not get his name on the cup... Just the ring
