Instant Analysis - Toronto Maple Leafs Hire HC Craig Berube

Steve Dangle analyzes the Toronto Maple Leafs decision to hire Craig Berube as their next Head Coach. Will this change anything?
NEW BOOK COMING OCT 15TH!! www.harpercollins.ca/97814434...
BECOME AN SDP VIP! kzbin.infojoin
SDPN: www.sdpn.ca/
ADVERTISE WITH US! sdpn.ca/sales/
SDPN DISCORD: / discord
BOOK: bit.ly/2I9hmWP
AUDIOBOOK: bit.ly/2GIgYya
EASTER SEALS: t.co/DVbMNTS1IL

[@mattwynn6190]

I'm pretty sure Berube's resume for this job was just a cocktail napkin with the words "I Made Brad Marchand Cry in the Stanley Cup Finals"

[@williamwright4813]

Sounds good enough for me!

[@masweber290]

And they wrote hired on it 😂😂😂

[@dhunter1133]

I met Berube when he came to Washington back in the early 90s. He stopped in my store with his wife and we made small talk. After a bit I asked him what he thought about the league's (empty) threat to eliminate fighting and - given his style of play - what he would change if they did. Without missing a beat, his wife chimes up, "First, he's going to have to learn to skate." The look on his face was priceless.

[@DneilB007]

That’s a good wife.

[@hockey_highlights_and_more]

🤣🤣🤣 what an awesome story bud!

[@wingedbuffalo4670]

Great story ... Mrs Berube sounds like a real firecracker !!! :)

[@robertlevasseur6843]

A guy who marries a woman with a sense of humor is alright in my book.

[@scottwill19]

My wife left me

[@Infoseek777]

Gayyyyyy

[@07foxmulder]

Because you’re gay? That’s what I’ve heard.

[@jefferybushnik3057]

I'm sorry, Mikey.

[@kobe7450]

L

[@justinwalters7953]

Because you’re a Leaf fan. Smart woman.

[@cartercollins923]

I can put it this way. Berube being fired was the first time that I can remember that a STL fan base absolutely and vocally disagreed with a coaches firing. Kyrou made some offhand comment the game after the firing and got booed every time he touched the puck the next game. As a Blues fan I would happily still have Berube as our coach. I think the Leafs got a good one. I hope they let him actually coach in the way he wants to.

[@beknown63]

Fun fact: Just like Jordan Binnington is from the Greater Toronto Area, Joseph Woll is from the Greater St. Louis area. So who knows what could happen?

[@keeshandave8603]

The Craig Berube saga begins here!

[@PeteNice29]

Blues fan here -- Excited for you guys. Curious to see who they get for goaltending duties. Woll is a great kid, but doesn't seem durable enough.

[@SandwichMan1764]

Berube will forever be my favorite Blues Coach. Toronto fans are really gonna love him. Quick story, my family owns a small deli in stl and this past December he came down before a blues game and got a sandwich and just to say hello. Coincidentally later that night he was fired. He is definitely missed in stl.

[@ginor8416]

Coaching is brutal in the nhl

[@pauliek5325]

Yep. He will need some of the "goal Scorers" gone.

[@speed150mph]

@@ginor8416no kidding. As a former flames fan I find it hilarious that Darryl Sutter took the team to the second round of the play offs and won the Jack Adams with the fans throwing out slogans like “In Sutter we trust”. The very next year, everyone hates him, he’s terrible and he gets fired. Like in the span of less than 12 months you can go from winning the best coach award to fired. It’s insanity

[@etcot8220]

What about Prof Caron?

[@jaystyx5134]

Regardless of hiring Berube, if his hands are tied from Shanahan with disciplining the core, a coaching change wont matter. I pray Berube has free reign

[@Sir_Godz]

but he would have tre backing him up

[@TheFlizash]

I'd watch that scrap

[@ZoltanvamosOfficial]

I think it was actually Dubas who didn't like being too hard on the players. Keefe had a nasty habit of criticizing players and then walking it back the next day or two. When Dubas left, he wasn't nearly as back and forth. If Berube can be himself in this position, I think it will greatly benefit the Leafs.

[@cowboy104]

@@Sir_Godz lololololol

[@somebody9112]

@@ZoltanvamosOfficial Dubas wanted Marner out and wasn't allowed to deal with him how he wanted. That's what people refer to.

[@lrba5524]

Craig Berube: An Era STARTED

[@1982kinger]

Let's hope

[@adamCarter20]

A few years later, An Era WASTED 😂😂

[@tonybrown8006]

Ok.

[@patspicks360]

Craig Berube played only 40 games for the Leafs! He was involved in two separate trades !

[@richardthompson6366]

I liked him as a Leaf and like most Leaf trades I was disappointed when he left the team.

[@craigbrioux]

That may be true, but when he left, we got DOUG GILMOUR!!!

[@patspicks360]

@craigbrioux Yes that's true and won that trade hands down!

[@kenmatheson8721]

Steve's like Michael Corleone. Just when he thinks he's out, they pull him back in.

[@ChrisMolyneaux93]

As Silvio Dante likes to say over a hundred times

[@tylerwoodfine6118]

aka all leafs fans….

[@jesserae87]

Take the canoli

[@lessthanthreemetal]

Steve got the "YOU LOST TO A ZAMBONI DRIVER" haircut

[@jamesboley573]

As a Blues fan, we love Chief and I can now hope he takes you where he took us!

[@Glimjii]

Berube isn't afraid to call out his star players and tell them they're not playing well publicly. Play the right way and you'll earn your ice, don't and you'll be scratched or benched. Those who wanna (pardon my language) fuckin be here, will be; those that don't, there's the door and don't let it hit your ass on the way out. To quote Pelley, "We're not here to sell jerseys, we're here to win."

[@OWlsfordshire]

Berube will get chewed up and spit out by the toxic Leafs fans and media. He's a great coach, but really got his feelings hurt by his release and comments made after. Once the Toronto crowd starts their yapping he'll be gone.

[@DXAdamJensen]

Players will turn on him in six months especially Matthews and Nylander lol

[@OWlsfordshire]

@@DXAdamJensen Yes, it was the same issue with all the young "stars" the Blues chose over their champions that Berube forged.

[@STLColt.55]

True, Berube benched some big name players for a game or two as wake up calls, I wanna say he even benched Tarasenko for a game once? But don't quote me on that, unless I'm right...

[@Malt454]

If he's willing to actually criticize nonperformance, he'll get canned for creating a "toxic work environment" like Babcock (the Leaf's last "Coach Saviour"). The problem is the Leafs ARE here to sell jerseys and have been for 57 years. People who want to win go to other organizations to do it because they have to, full stop. Phil Kessel once got a lot of criticism for visiting Toronto and bringing the Cup with him; in his defense, he supposedly said "how else could it get here?".

[@makenziebrothers408]

If Shanny forgets his role is to sell seats, beer, and hot dogs. Berube can remind him that they dropped the gloves as players, and Craig beat the brakes off of Shanny. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2PCZGOXmrKoe6ssi=JC6AJpauOSODJo1P

[@jaystyx5134]

Haha and Shannahan is his boss. I think shanny gets the last laugh. However, Berube smoked him bad lol. "Hey Shanny, remember the time I pummled you?" Ohhh good times!! *slaps shanny in the back*

[@KHayes666]

@@jaystyx5134 "You're fired"

[@cahg3871]

Thanks for that-I liked Berube before watching that,now I’m for putting him up on a pedestal.👍✌️

[@519fishing3]

I needed that in the worst way lol shanny looked like Marner when Marchant went after him in the playoffs

[@xViperGTR]

This is the coach this team has needed badly. Not strict, not relaxed but someone who gets the team motivated to win a game. That speech in that Cup Final Game 7 was the prime example of what kind of man he is. THIS IS IT.

[@adamCarter20]

Bahahaha PLAN THE PARADE 😂😂

[@xViperGTR]

@@adamCarter20 I aint no Leafs fan but this is a really good fuckin move for them. They can definitley make some noise with him as their coach

[@adamCarter20]

@@xViperGTR 😆😆😊 sure

[@xViperGTR]

@@adamCarter20 he did it with St Louis and changed the narrative that Mike Yeo put on them.

[@adamCarter20]

@@xViperGTR One cup win and playoff failure after that 😅😅 this will be Babcock all over again, guarantee it

[@markdaigle4030]

Country Club just got interesting. Welcome to Toronto Berube, can't wait to see what you're going to do.

[@zascorpusa]

Hope Berube KO Matthews and the other divas when they don’t listen

[@ginor8416]

You mean welcome back Berube! They should play the Welcome Back Kotter theme at his first game

[@markdaigle4030]

@@ginor8416 That would be Magnificent!!

[@FinnTheCanadian]

Wow didn't see this coming

[@Canada1994]

I'm from Owen Sound Ontario and I still have fond memories of Binnington playing for the Owen Sound Attack when they won the OHL Championship in 2011. I knew he would be a good goalie in the league and I was so happy when he won the cup in 2019. I forgot Berube came in the same time as Binner in the cup run season

[@Christfollower2120]

2:55 Craig Berube coaching the blues in 1920 😂

[@ramilm9793]

That Covid season feels so long ago, 1920!

[@vipeholmskolan6052]

Spanish flu season!

[@Qmocean]

What covid season?

[@YasserUM]

I knew he was old but not THAT old

[@johnbowden811]

I Love SDPN and love the Steve Dangle podcast. I'm an English hockey fan and Leafs fan in particular. What would it say about the Leafs if they went into the next season with Shanahan still in his job?

[@BobbyBoucher228]

Based on the Leafs track record of beating the same dead horse into the ground for a decade, I would say it would say it would be expected for the Leafs to continue with what they are doing with the expectation that they will win a Cup doing it. It is one of my favorite annual comedy shows each spring and each show is more entertaining than the last.

[@07foxmulder]

After the other names I heard floating around, this is a massive relief.

[@CanadaMatt]

Eff that. Brind'Amour or even McLellan would have been better.

[@shawns7066]

⁠@@CanadaMattBrind’amour definitely(don’t think he’ll actually be available tho). McLellan is maybe equal I would say

[@dmonsef]

Rod ain’t coaching another team and TMac is an awful coach in the playoffs!

[@MikeHoncho610]

lol uh what? Berube is a fantastic coach.

[@cashflownpv]

@@shawns7066 After Rod's screwup with starting Freddy and losing in the 3rd period no thanks

[@joanneogley4874]

So awesome we got him, welcome to Toronto Chief, I know your happy to be here. 🎉

[@jamj2912]

Coach makes a goalie, goalie makes a coach...........remember that.

[@tplomonte]

A decent goal with a good defense can make a team ! A solid goaltender with a great defense can make any coach look good !

[@speed150mph]

Dang, too bad we aren’t a team maybe looking at trading a 10 million dollar forward for a top tier goalie getting some defencemen…. Oh wait!

[@JoE-kx7dw]

🤔..... Roy---Tramblay

[@jamj2912]

@@JoE-kx7dw what? like 30 years ago

[@morganmumma6599]

As a Blues fan one thing that is underrated about Berube was his lineup decisions. Everytime he changed the lines up it worked, everytime he activated a healthy scratch it worked. I guess the only question with that is do the Leafs have enough depth to do that constantly?

[@ther.e.s.tcentre7364]

Ok I was a high school basketball ref. I never believed in the concept that a foul is different in the regular season versus the playoffs. A penalty is a penalty regardless of what game is being refed. Right ?

[@pickaport]

What’s up Steve. Keep the content coming!

[@ardenherman4176]

Get some one in too fix the power play. Need this asap.

[@in2theheart]

Dude got the skin cut, Steve going on twelve lol

[@shiron1158]

As a Blues fan, I don’t think this is the best move for Toronto. Part of why Berube and the Blues clicked so well in ‘19 and ‘20 is because Berube is best with a big, defensive, grinding type team, which the Blues absolutely were in those years. In ‘22-‘23, the Blues became less of that, and they had less success with Berube because of it. I think Berube is a good coach, I’ll always be grateful for what he accomplished for St. Louis, but I think he’s a coach that does best with a specific type of team, and I don’t think the Leafs are that type. But, I am just a fan on the couch so I could be very wrong and the Leafs will win the Cup next year. Who knows?

[@davidmurphy7582]

Leafs won’t win the Cup ever, they are too soft. They don’t have the goaltending and tough characters that the half-breed Berube had in St. Loony. Berube is out after two years of one and done, bank on it.

[@BobbyBoucher228]

The Modern 1-2-2 trap game the Berube had the Blues master in 2019 isn’t something that all teams are built for including the Blues who used it to devastating effect when they got a lead in a game 2019 and 2020. Although as soon as they weren’t a elite defensive team in 2021 the modern 1-2-2 trap that they had run the previous two years was all but useless which is why I believe the hiring of Berube will have some effect on the Leafs, but it will not be some X-factor that wins them a cup like like Leaf fans seem to think. The X-factor to all of the Leaf problems in their poor roster construction and until those issues are rectified the Leafs will continue to struggle in the playoffs with or without Berube.

[@davidyang2756]

How can you forget that Craig Berube was a Leaf? He formed part of the toughest, greatest, most hard-working, infamous line in Leaf‘s history - The Fault Line. Bonus points for anyone who still remembers who else made up the line without looking it up.

[@5xmasterx548]

Bro why do u have the 2015 combover still?

[@sethschackmann6200]

“And Berube…is definitely that.” So true lol

[@bakermartin8089]

Steve went to the barber and asked for "the high and tight"

[@Fenrisulv987-nl8kh]

I have to say, the prospect of Berube with the addition of Savard as assistant coach, coupled with the rumblings of Marner getting traded for Saros (I think a straight up Marner for Saros, 1 for 1 trade isn't the "best" deal the Leafs can muster, but getting a solid goalie is assuring), makes me incredibly optimistic and hopeful for this franchise. We all have known for a while that the Leafs need a change, and this certainly facilitates that need! What an off-season this could be! Thx for the upload :D :D

[@austinpeterson1310]

Congrats Toronto, wish we had a bit more of a hardass here in Edmonton. Good luck

[@user-fc2tj8lf2m]

Having Mitch Marner on the team is the equivalent of a hockey stick, that can skate and give up the puck all on its own. If you can get him to waive his nmc then send'em.

[@stevenlafrance6221]

What in the world is that haircut, Steve 😭😂

[@TheFlizash]

The surfer wave. It's slick. I'm bald. I'm jealous. I'm the last person who should comment on hair......I'd pay anything for a bad hairdo.

[@trajancanada]

@@TheFlizash Yeah, balding man here. I never make fun of other dudes hairstyles. You know, at least they have the hair to style.

[@casey4274]

It’s bad, can’t look at how uneven it is😂

[@Shik0njuul934]

Hitler youth cut

[@bronzesnake7004]

Dangle's rocking the "Wide Mohawk" doo!! Jack ~'()'~

[@davebarnett8839]

Rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. Nothing changes until the roster does. These “stars” are butter soft, that stays the same.

[@spatuloso]

you would think after the 3rd time the podcast would learn to record 1 or maybe 2 shows later in the day xD

[@Strongbelly]

New haircut looks great Steve! Canucks in 6?

[@davec4818]

Die hard STL Blues fan. I have grown to like leafs and watch their games. because of you. I don’t need all this heartache. I blame you Steve.

[@keithbevins6688]

So much for the soft, gentle, delicate, approach to directing Matthews to superstardom. It's always nice to get a new alarm clock at certain points in a career. I don't know if Berube will be able to handle the glass menagerie that is... the Toronto Maple Leafs. There will be a wake-up call. There better be a big box of tissues in the locker room so the Leafs can get it out of their systems fast. Keep the tears in the Locker room and the blood on the ice.

[@marktaylor6038]

Steve do u know the teams ullmark wont go to?

[@mountie31]

The new Leafs winning goal sing has to be Gloria now

[@isthatrubble]

nah, that belongs to the blues

[@jonnypariah1]

Damnit Steve I was going to bed ...

[@TranTek]

Bang on Steve who is the goalie ? Blimmingtom ?

[@testecalle3378]

Tyler Bozak was on thay St.Louis team lol

[@musicman76enator]

Steve's hair style is straight out of the 90s 😂

[@user-oi3jz6fv8p]

'50's

[@Jorts-W-Bush]

Imagine if Steve Dangle got a low taper fade

[@vt1340]

A mechanic will need the right tools to fix a car.

[@MrBruinman86]

Interesting that former Boston Bruin Marc Savard is joining the staff. Like Berube Savard has a cup too. I really liked him as a player. Sad that concussions ended his career young at 34.

[@davidford3968]

As good of a higher as it may be, I think it doesn’t matter who’s behind the bench if you don’t make some changes to that roster, particularly Tavares and Marner need to go to free up some cap Space to reconstruct the roster and get it more playoff ready.

[@JamesVanderVeen]

Which leafs coach (dead or alive) would you want back behind the bench?

[@Isabella-hd1gt]

Pat Quinn will always be my favorite, because I started watching hockey at that time

[@JamesVanderVeen]

@@Isabella-hd1gt Same. It's hard to believe that rounds 2 and 3 of the playoffs were common in the Pat Quinn era. How times have changed.

[@Isabella-hd1gt]

​@@JamesVanderVeen Times have indeed changed. I think being both the GM and head coach helped a lot. He could build and coach the team the way he wanted.

[@johnscustomsaws]

I love Barbeque... That's what we are talking about right???

[@szahmad2416]

I dunno...if Barbeque won a Stanley Cup with the Blues for the first time, after the team was the WORST in the league...then yes, we definitely ARE talking about Barbeque. Incidentally, in the story Treasure Island, Barbeque was the nickname that a crew of pirates used for their VERY crafty, very gutsy, very duplicitous leader Long John Silver. So pretty cool nickname from that perspective. Then again, "Barbeque" also betrayed and killed his pirate crew to join the "good" side before hightailing it with a stolen share of the treasure the "good" guys retrieved and took back with them. So make of that what you will.

[@user-js3gs7du3h]

As a Red Wings fans I had hoped for the slim chance that Yzerman would can LaLonde and hire Berube. I didn't expect that at all, it was a dream. Congratulations to Toronto though. Expect some drastic changes in playing style. Players will be expected to "Man up", which will be a good thing. The Maple Leafs will be forever different in their playing style. The future is bright for you. Good Luck and enjoy!

[@lindsaydoke9308]

It is so simple. The Leafs play on the perimeter in the playoffs. Goals in most cases are scored within 8 feet of the net in the playoffs with often 2 forwards in front of the net. Berube will change the cukture long overdue.

[@ViLLiN__81]

I’ve talked in some sdp comments before about how Berube wasn’t a fit for the Blues. But for all the reasons he wasn’t, they make him the perfect coach for the Leafs. So excited!

[@BobbyBoucher228]

Berube was the perfect fit for the 2019 and 2020 Blues team that was stacked defensively and could perfectly run the modified 1-2-2 trap game in which every lead was a whether in the first or third period was almost a guaranteed win. The 2021-present Blues roster are more like the Leafs current roster which is more of a offensive team in which Berube is not a good fit. That is why I don’t see Berube’s impact going further than motivating players as the Leafs are not an absolutely stacked defensive team like the Blues were in 2019-2020 and as a result Berube’s preferred 1-2-2 modified trap system won’t be a good fit for the Leafs roster.

[@mitchhak2]

Not quite Binnington but getting closer! Lol

[@jonpomerance-trifts6113]

What happened to Marner's NMC?

[@HandsomeDanVacationRentals]

Savard ran the power play this year for the Flames. It was horrible. He kept sticking with the same setup, guys, and refused to change either the setup or players until the Flames were basically eliminated. Then he decided to put the kids on the PP and change the way they set up and things started getting better. Good news is he only takes 60 games to make adjustments to something that isn’t working.

[@HandsomeDanVacationRentals]

Also the year before Savard arrived the Flames had a middle of the pack power play with largely the same personnel.

[@Caennuck]

I am so whelmed by this news.

[@Mitch_Marner_]

Anyone know any good restaurants in Salt Lake City? asking for a friend

[@ChrisJones-pi5mh]

Probably the 2nd least surprising news that will happen with the leafs this offseason. (The first being the Keefe firing)

[@technerd9655]

I like this hiring. He was my top pick next to Brind'Amor, but with Brind'Amor's new contract with Carolina stalled but basically done, that wasn't likely. Having said that, and maybe I'm alone in this, but I kinda wanted to see Doug Gilmour...he did win a cup as a player, and had some of his best seasons as a player as a Leaf...plus unfinished business (and never got a chance to try and correct this thanks to Dave Lowry). Sure he'd be a rookie head coach, but with a track record of winning a cup with Calgary and then getting as close to winning a cup with the Leafs as anyone else since '67, and IMHO, if not for Kerry Fraser, would have done so.

[@mightymacaque]

Joseph Freakin' Woll I believe!!!!

[@Will-eh6xe]

I'm stoked to see him get these players in the winning mood and be more then a season team and we're a playoff team we eat nails for b fast

[@CashMacGregor]

new coach. roster moves. i'm excited for next year.

[@randysgutful]

Good luck fella.

[@nrusso967]

Steve, as a NJ Devils' fan, I'm so jealous that the Leafs now have Craig Berube! The Leafs will be a force to be reckoned with next season!!!

[@philippekotsilidis5756]

Was to be expected

[@HatTrkPatrk]

Goddamn, Berube was coaching in 1920

[@mariovaccarella6854]

Great Video, Steve. I knew that he was going to go to Toronto. You know what this means? I say The Core Four, at least for the moment, stays together & Sheldon Keefe becomes The New Coach of The New Jersey Devils. Let me know what you think

[@jadnerlugo8332]

You get a new pair of shoes with that fade?

[@ericgaudreau4287]

3/4 of the core of that team disappear when playoffs begins and they replaced the coach. Good luck.

[@Patrick-eo2ts]

IF it's happening Marner better be ready to play tough in the corners

[@Garbox80]

What was it Jesse said in SDP? Oh yeah; it's virtually non-existent for a cup winning coach to win cup with another team. Unless he's Scotty Bowman. Now Berube's last name starts with same letter, but he's still not Bowman... 😂

[@dolandarkxgrandayy6953]

Steve has that Gunther haircut

[@ReviewyCA]

0:30 You talk about is so casually from that Leaf POV. As a Flames fan, Craig Berube was part of the WORST TRADE IN HOCKEY HISTORY when Berube, The Human Pylon, a literal lemon, and two other guys were offloaded on Calgary for Killer, Macoun, Natty, Wammers and that Manderville guy. I can't really blame Berube for the trade that he 100% didn't orchestrate and was only a pawn in, can I? Oh wait, sure I can! Congrat Coach BOO-rube!

[@Outta-hz1ej]

The Flames didn't want to pay Gilmour and they also didn't want him playing in the 1991 Canada Cup. That's why he was traded. Berube definitely helped protect guys like Theo Fleury

[@DXAdamJensen]

Let's not forget his no comment quote when Kadri was receiving tons of racist comments and death threats on social media

[@STLColt.55]

​@DXAdamJensen such a dumb thing to throw a fit about. "Random people on the internet said mean things to Kadri!" "No comment" "*GASP!"

[@BobbyBoucher228]

@@DXAdamJensenBerube probably commented nothing about those social media post’s because Kadri In consecutive playoffs had injured the Blues best player in each series in Faulk(intentional) and Binnington(questionable) and he could have probably cared less that Kadri was basking in the being the victim to deflect from his actions in the playoffs that killed the Blues chances of advancing the year Binnington was hurt, intentional or not.

[@billtilden22]

Hey Steve. Marner for Ullmark? I know it's sickening to trade with a major rival, but it would really help both teams. Think you could stomach it???

[@TeeGiddy]

I wonder how Berube would look with your haircut.

[@tpor1206]

So countdown to the 'Fire Berube' chant by Leaf fans within the next 3 years. Same old same old where they hire a coach, go on about him then want him canned. Have fun with that as only a few coaches have won a Cup with one team then did it with another. Ain't gonna happen in TO

[@lebutzki]

@1:29 No, actually. I was thinking "Steve, how is your twitter working because mine has been down ever since they changed the address."

[@Ballin-97]

Berube’s playoff record with the Blues sounds like Nick Nurse’s with the Raptors

[@lankancheetah]

Why announce it on a Friday afternoon? Usually that’s when you announce bad news and hope it gets buried?

[@pauliek5325]

We would have won Back to Back cups if not for Covid

[@tonylloy327]

How do you figure that?

[@pauliek5325]

@tonylloy327 Because the Blues were the Best Team in the league before shutdown and we were playing with all the Cup winning players. We would have been the favorites.

[@TraderChriis]

My fav kind of leaf fan 😂

[@stevekorzeniewski6895]

I don’t think I heard more than a million people predict that this would happen…shocking

[@Isabella-hd1gt]

Are you saying I should get my hopes *WAY UP* for this season!?

[@user-oi3jz6fv8p]

NO!

[@Isabella-hd1gt]

@@user-oi3jz6fv8p Too late! They're already up! They're sky high!!! I already wrote a song and everything!

[@zlinedavid]

You’re a Leafs fan. You weren’t going to anyway?

[@Isabella-hd1gt]

​@@zlinedavid I've been a Leafs fan for 24 years, so... no. I think most Leaf fans can read the humor in my comment.

[@zlinedavid]

@@Isabella-hd1gt Until 2019, I felt your pain. Being a Blues fan wasn’t exactly easy.

[@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556]

Jordan Binnington from winning the cup, to getting peppered by Austria :DD

[@darryllavallee8102]

Coaching wasn't the problem In toronto. The fact that we make the playoffs seems to skip ppls minds like we are entitled to a cup. Ownership needs to want a cup not just make money like a business for a team to win a cup. Leafs make enough money to just be happy with a first round loss every year. If that wasn't the case Shanahan would have been gone b4 doubts.

[@djpause]

HOPE

[@27gts]

I hope this works out well for the leafs- Toronto is a good team- but- they are peaking right about now- really need something on the ice to help them- my own opinion is a really good offensive defenceman- a player like Cale Makar who can quarterback the leafs in the offensive zone on the blue line- that is where roughly half the defence happens- in the offensive zone-

[@27gts]

there has been some other offensive type defensemen- like Paul Coffee and Chris Chelios and before my time Bobby Orr different styles of defenseman- this would help Mathews and all of Leafs forwards greatly

[@user-kw9lt1dk3i]

Steve you made should your sources were good this time right? lol 😉

[@charlesgibson2171]

This sounds a lot like the Klingberg video.

[@therockieshockeypodcast]

Solid hire, gonna be hard on his players and bring in a much more structured system that should benefit the Leafs in the playoffs. Though i wonder if Marner will be able to adapt to that system, if he is here next season.

[@hockeyfan7100]

I would think this would expedite Marner's decision to leave Toronto. It would for me if I was him.

[@therockieshockeypodcast]

​@@hockeyfan7100I agree. But that just shows the kind of player Marner has proven to be: doesn't know how to play hard in the playoffs and doesn't want to play in a playoff style system where he has more defensive responsibility, even though that could help him win a cup.

[@willwave332]

Berube was an amazing coach for our team and fan base in St. Louis. The Leafs will love playing for him and he’ll get full effort from everyone. Hopefully he can take you to the promised land that us Blues fans finally reached.

[@lindahueter9018]

Best of luck to Chief in Toronto. He’s awesome!

[@Todd_Gak]

lol it’s starting already. Going all the way! Hahahaha