Part of me thinks the reason that Brad Treliving was brought in last year was because he has the stones to make a big move (Huberdeau and Weegar for Tkachuk). The Leafs knew if they fell short again this year, he would be the guy to make a big move. He just needs Leafs upper management approval to make a move and shake up the "Core 4".

His farewell video was hard to watch.. sucks seeing a good person who did their best, lose their job. He’s a gta guy, grew up loving the team. It was the right move letting him go but just doesn’t feel good. Good luck Sheldon

He got outcoached pretty regularly. Shanahan, though, has some pictures....

I like how the tags for each team is "Go team!" While the Hurricanes doesn't even mention their name, just "Destroy everything"

Finally... ive been waiting for this since he blew the 3-1 series lead against the Habs🤦‍♂️ Craig Berube?

Would love to see a former player behind the bench ESPECIALLY a former Leaf who played with passion on the team and has many years of experience, such as Clark or Gilmore, or just a coach who has been to an SCF and maybe even won, Keefe isn't a bad coach like most think, but ig we'll see if it was the coach or the players next season, either way, maple leafs till I die! GO LEAFS GO!!!

The leafs had to do something by this point. And honestly i think Keefe is just the starting point for the moves the leafs are going to make this off season for them now. As important as he was to the team. It clearly just wasn't enough for the team.

I like how your vidoes are short , to the point , with no in video adds. Thanks. Keep up the good content

Shanahan: it's you or me. Keefe: bruh

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Sheldon Keefe looked good in his goodbye video. Spoke his peace, accountability, and is at ease with thid decision. There will be a job for him still in the NHL. conflicted on if i feel the Devils should push for him. Its definitely intriguing

Thanks, YOU’RE awesome!

It's TorontOver

Always here early baby. 🔥

100%, berube emphasizes grit in his coaching style and that’s exactly what the leafs need to get over the hump

Shanahan needs to be shown door next.

You're Awesome.

Toronto Maple Leafs: Proudly Rebuilding Since 1968 😅

It's either Berube or McLellan at this point

The leafs need someone like Tocchet

My first thought is that they might hire Woodcroft as a replacement, but yeah, I can see them getting Berube. He'd be my second guess.

Not shocked whatsoever! On the flipside, it WOULD be nice if there was a team in front of the coach that would SHOW UP for the playoffs. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if Shanny goes next. Here's hoping Craig can light a fire under the team and pull them, even if it IS kicking and screaming, into the 2nd round, or beyond, next year, and here's hoping that the next GM has a clearer idea of what serves the team better. At this point, though, I'd say forget about a Cup parade for at LEAST another 5 years.

Keefe deserved better. He did manage to have over 60% win rate with a 72% point rate. The team just turns off when it gets to the playoffs. Keefe was out coached but the players did not give him everything.

About damn time, 2 years ago.

This might seem like an unpopular opinion to most, but I think Guy Boucher deserves a look. He may not be the highly coveted Craig Berube that everyone is expecting, but he does have the potential of bringing a different culture to the team. He's hard-nosed, intense, and might just be what the leafs are looking for. He's my dark horse pick for next head coach.

The raptors is GREAT comparison. Never thought of that

No Keefe wasn't on the ice playing the game but he is the one who put the 4th line out right after the Leafs made it 1-0 in game 7. He did that crap all year...Leafs score a big goal and send out the 4th line to give it right back. And don't even get me started on years of him refusing to break up Rielly/Brodie. Oh and how about that time he called out his star players in a post game presser and then retracted his statement a day later. This guy's time was up long ago.

Leafs have had some great coaches over the passed 20 years...

Jeff Blashill 😂😂

Keefe was a huge problem for the leafs. He was the one that failed to keep that locker room focused and disciplined.

Flyers will win a cup before the leafs sad to say but it’s true. Thank you for your awesome videos!!

I don't think this will solve all Leafs problems, but it's a good start. I like Keefe but I'd rather have him as assistant coach for some time before becoming the team's Head Coach. Best of luck for him, he's a good coach, just possibly not the best option for the team at the moment.

Definitely the right call, but its a shame, as I think Keefe is a solid coach and a good dude. His video saying goodbye was pure class. Hope he finds some success elsewhere...... now I just REALLY hope they fire Shanahan. He's their biggest problem.

But they also played Florida in their prime last year as well

It will be a brand new era for the Leafs with head coach...... Darryl Sutter.

Just a guess, but Marner to the sharks for Vlassic, Def prospect and two picks, Penguins 1st this year and 2nd round next year or vice versa on the picks.

Leafs should seriously give Tortorello a call. The players need to be chewed out for a season.

Every coach, even great ones, have a limited shelf life with a given team. Change is good sometimes for both the players and even for the coach who moves on to another team.

Short term, Gallant works. His first couple years in an organization always seems to work well but for reason his shelf life is short. I like Sutter but I see another Calgary situation with him. Berube can get the players to fight each other then go on a run, Bruce Boudreau would make the team must see but not a playoff successful team. Barry Trotz would be good

At this point I’m legit hoping mcdavid wins the cup this year and will sign home town discount to Toronto soon. A boy can dream!!!!!

No, *you’re* awesome🤭

There were two men with their jobs on the line, backs against the wall. One of them stood up and called his top performer out to step it up and lit a fire. Said player scores the series winner and playing in the second round. Keefe should have been fired. Doesn’t make him a bad guy but when it came to push and shove he was “ok” with how the leafs were performing and it cost them the series

It's not just you, but it's kinda weird that everyone is saying St. Louis is the 5th longest tenured NHL coach as if Tourigny got fired by Arizona and then immediately rehired by Utah. It's not like we're saying all the players on the team ended their NHL careers after Arizona's last game and are starting them up again when Utah plays their first game.

Craig Berube! Craig Berube! Craig Berube! We want Craig Berube!!!

I honestly think that teams that focus too much on their star player end up sucking and having horrible depth when it matters. When your team's main focus is padding the score sheet for one player they obviously aren't going to have any success when that star player inevitably gets shut down during a playoff series. The Oilers did it for years with Mcdavid and Drai, they thought they were good because they had 2 of the best scorers in the league, meanwhile the rest of the team sucked ass. The Oilers finally look like a team and not the McDraisatl's. The Leafs this year were focused on Padding Matthew's score sheet and it was apparent in the playoffs.

THE PROBLEN ISN'T JUST THE COACH !!!! I almost feel bad for the guy as he did what he could with what he was given . Step 2 is to start revamping the roster once the playoffs wrap up . WE'LL wait and see IF that happens

Now dismantle the core 4 and brace for the rebuild.

Rod Brind'Amour coach this Leafs team needs honestly. #fireshanahan

Holy shit it happened

If I´m an NHL coach, there is no way I would want to go to Toronto. Wayyyyy too much pressure! There are a ton of openings right now in markets where one can make a good living, make some noise in the playoffs and not have to deal with the media pressure of a Toronto.

I'll never fire you Jimmy Lawkey.

I'm definitely hoping Berube comes out to LA instead of Toronto.

Keefe will get another job as a head coach in the NHL eventually. The learning curves for coaches must be ridiculous in the NHL, and most of these guys only get a few years to master it. Look at Maurice making his first finals last year.

Not really a post-season kind of city…

Keefe seems like a good guy, but this really should've happened last year. Ditch the GM, the Coach, then run it back and see if new voices could get the players to live up to their talent before tearing it down. Now the Leafs are in a terrible spot where they may have to to trade one of the best playmakers in the league "just for the sake of change", and that's basically guaranteed to end poorly.

Any chance Babcock returns?

Keefe is the sacrificial lamb he is great coach but thats how she goes..the leafs needed a change behind the bench but ya gotta bring in a coach that wants a stanley cup at all costs..This team is a stanley cup winning team .Make a few changes as needed but do not trade the captain or the 4 core these guys need to play together for the whole season not change lineups every other game because to win you must play as a unit of team spirit.ya cant have team spirit if your always changing whom plays with whom .the way i see it anyways.

Todd Bertuzzi Head Coach. I bet he'd kill as coach~

Absolutely insane I’m from Toronto and always thought his name was o’keefe and just found out today that it’s just keefe. Either I’m a complete moron or been living in an alternate dimension

Shanahan has always been the problem. There is no development of players. 10 years and you've developed Lily 🙄 and Woll. No one can be brought up from the Marlies and plugged in when someone goes down. Bruins pulled players up no problem. MLSE/Shanahan etc think they can buy a cup.

What they need is a coach with the balls to DEMAND of Treliving that he helps him build them a better overall collective defense, yes maybe sell a Core 4 player, but for a Defensive asset ! B it a D-guy or a forward (preferably the first) with a very good transition game, not necessarily a producer - there's still this Klingberg debacle to sort out ahah - and a couple high rounds draft picks. The prospect pool is almost as apalling as the ease with which any opponent can shut down their defense to offense connection in playoffs series. Plus, you most likely won't get as rich in solid D prospects a draft class as this one in maybe a decade. Time to start building their next window of opportunity is now, not next year or the year after. Also get rid of those distraction guys, Ryan Reeves ain't useful on the ice anymore, barks more than he bites, skates slower than a ten-times repaired zamboni and kinda takes the space a deserving Marlies kid could fill. They talk culture a freakin lot but they ain't developping guys as they should, so the top dogs are never ever challenged in their ways.

Berube to Toronto, Keefe to Pittsburgh

I hope they hire Craig

Jets need a coach!!

Woodcroft

This wont change anything. They arent a playoff team. Regular season doesnt matter if your guys dont step up in playoffs. Everyone is more worried about their contracts.

Maple Leafs sports and entertainment is the problem what Toronto needs is a single owner who really wants the cup

« At the end of the day… »

Always the coaches fault... - A Flames Fan

I acknowledge that they lost to Florida in five. However three of those losses were one goal games. Two of them were in overtime. It's not as if they were vanquished. So I don't know what the big deal is all about.

Another brick in the wall of players not wanting to play, and coaches not wanting to work, in crazy Canada. Seriously, can you blame Tkachuk for chilling on the beach in Florida. $20 says UberDough would learn to skate again if he was back in the Florida Keys. Who wants the Toronto Coaching Job? Bueller, Bueller, Bueller?

Toronto is gonna be way better next year they have the talent but they don't have the leadership from the coach. Toronto will be back next year.

why not Boucher?

If the team stay the same you could put anyone in that job for the next 2-3 years till they become the scapegoat again.

The Leafs need to swing for the fences like the Raptors did.

More head office meddling, I would have kept him and put presser where it belongs, on the players. Even a great coach would have a hard if not impossible time getting players to have heart, passion, and pride to play with a determination to win. A team with this much turn over every year won't have that. I just wish the Blackhawks would fire our coach and hire Keefe.

You need to want it bad before you can get it , and the leafs just don't cut the mustard .they don't care about anything else only the big pay checks they are getting if any recognition should be given give it to Domi and Pertuzzi those guys played their heart out and with very little pay.

Idk why I’m putting this out into the universe but after the rumours about Stuzle being unhappy in Ott (allegedly) possible Matthew’s Stuzle trade? The Ott culture is looking towards accountability and maybe Green and their captain could light a real fire under 34’s ass Just a hypothetical ofc

Why fire the leader. He came back from 3-1 to 3-3 and loose in overtime. It wasn’t the coaches problem that they lost.

The other problem is their terrible defence

I'm sure there'll be more firings of other head coaches soon so they'll have some choices. I can't think of a name to put here for you, but I think they might need someone with some animation on that bench. Someone who holds players and refs accountable and makes you want to win.

I bet the Leafs do the most Toronto Maple Leafs thing and hire Don Granato.

I even beat the bots here. 😂

If he loses saturday night..he will be a coach without a contract..Rod Brind'amour

Berube is probably high in the list. Brind’amour doesn’t have a contract, just saying.

I feel Sydney Crosby is the player that can put the Leafs over the top. But I know Sid won't come to Toronto.

Dude, there lineup on paper should be fire in playoffs. I dont think the coach is the issue. I think its just the players mentality. They need to be absolute dogs in the playoffs and only 1 that is is nylander. Everyone else tucks tail and hides under there bed. Marner needs to be working out and becoming a killer in the offseason. But how many years has he done this in playoffs. Its not gonna happen now if it hasnt already. Dude should be a absolute unit in playoffs same with matthews. Im a wings fan and i actually think we are in a better position then leafs right now. Lol i cant imagine the disappointment of making playoffs every year just to be sent home every year in first or second round, like what do u do, what do u change?? I think the players just need to be more aggressive is all. I dunno. Feel bad for leaf fans, this was a rough playoff exit this year. Just dagger in the heart. Even though im wings fan i was pulling for leafs cause i felt bad for the fans! Lfgrw!!

Defense wins championships...It's literally been said for decades and it hasn't changed. Everyone loves to watch the flashy scorers but if you don't build your team defense first you won't go far in the playoffs.

I would love a Paul Maurice in Toronto. 0% chance of that but I love the hockey they play. Another good option is the Tampa bay lightning coach. Or John torts to bring that aggression in the locker room. Harden up the softies.

No no no not Craig

I think this current Leafs team is way too soft for a hard-nosed coach like Berube. But that’s not Berube’s problem to solve. It’s Treliving’s.

The Leafs can’t try the “one move away” trade BS … they need to make a STATEMENT trade. And nothing says STATEMENT like trading away one of the ‘core 4.’ Plus the Leafs are flirting with Cap purgatory and this offseason is as good a time as any to start making those moves.

I'm no fan of Keefe but he shouldn't be held to account for the under-performance of Marner and Tavares either. That said, Keefe did have the all-time 5th overall best winning percentage of ANY coach in the NHL @ .607. He just, for some reason, couldn't motivate the players enough to win in the playoffs ... you know ... when it actually mattered!

The problem is their top players choke in the playoffs. Matthews 1 goal in his last 10 playoff games. Marner invisible. The only one that really shows up is Nylander.

Easy, next head coach Jukka Jalonen and finally maple leafs would start winning things.

Barube has NEVER legitimately proven to be a tip coach tbh. There may be better options available after the playoffs end.

Unless the Buds shake up the core,it won’t matter what coach is brought in,the same results will occur,an early exit.They are too small,too fragile to handle teams like the Panthers.They would get rag dolled by the bigger teams.

Their is no “Kawhi” on the market. And even if their was ur not getting him for Marner atp

If coaching means nothing why have coaches in hockey?

Berube time