The Toronto Maple Leafs officially hired former St. Louis Blues head coach Craig Berube. Was this the right choice? Bryan Hayes joins 7-Eleven That's Hockey host Gino Reda to discuss.
Berube and Rick Tocchet were best friends and roommates when they played in Philadelphia and they remain best buddies today. Both have championship pedigree and are winners. He will motivate the Maple Leaf softies. Good luck Craig, you'll need it Bro.
As a lifelong Leafs fan I can confirm his job is damn near impossible. Not with the core 4 and a lack of ability to fill out the roster with a proper d line and #1 goalie, though if healthy I love Wolls game.
I honestly don't think it matters who coaches unless the team dynamic in the dressing room changes to drastically that means accountability team toughness
@@polarisoutdoors3105yeah, this St. Louis arm chair GM has the right answers. Let’s be real, no one is a real St. Louis fan. Coaches are more effective with different groups. I think the problem was the team. No necessarily the coach. Not saying CB is gonna be great but you have no idea. Worm regards
Don't think he's gonna make any difference. O'Keefe did a good job producing best results in franchise history. Yes they fell short again in playoffs but fought back down 1-3 and last season they made round 2. They don't produce enough goals in playoffs but they also have goalie problem.
You do understand the Leafs top 4 will also represent their countries at the 2026 Olympics right? So coaching at the Olympics will be more intense and will demand more of players than whatever Berube will throw at them.
It doesn't matter who coaches the leafs the team is jinxed since 1967 we had so many coaches and haven't won 💩 so all now Berube is our saviour lol 😂😂😂
If the Leafs ever win a cup again all we be forgotten as they celebration will be historic in sports. I would just like to see one more this time in colour. Yes I am that dam old I actually saw three.
Haysie just traded Marner, mentions all the Leafs stars except Marner. Reminds me of US news networks of when they want someone out and damn be the people.
If Berube does not advocate modern hockey, it is not the right choice. Does not matter what the fans want. Nylander is the only one that stands up and tells everyone to not be babies.
Agreed you must use the NewAge Hockey System in todays game or you cannot compete with those who do. Vancouver and NYR and every Playoff Team left is using a variant of the NHS. If Tocchet uses it Berube will use it, the Blues used the early original version from 2012 it to win their Cup.
Well Kyle Dubas and O'Keefe used modern 🏒 with all that computer 💩 and stats and numbers analysis and fancy science and the result is nada as in a big 🥚
@@jonfreeman9682 Dubas/Shanny/Keefe...=....Dellow/Mac-T/Eakins.... advanced stats geeks ripped off a real life Hockey Savants online work beginning in 2009 then NHL Teams unknowingly began helping them, these frauds slipped into the NHL on the back of someone elses work. That "Someone" since 2009 has singlehandedly force-fed the NHL a NewAge Philosophy and System which catapulted the Leagues Offense into the Stratosphere where 80s Records live. So no those conjobs did not use anything fancy or new they used other Peoples work which in the long run they could not maintain nor evolve for they had no real Proprietary knowledge of it.. NHL Hockey has a REAL LIFE ...mONEYpUCK STORY , BUT IT HAS BEEN SUPPRESSED AND BURIED INTENTIONALLLY.
Its a ok choice, let them get revved up in regular season and get a string of wins like 12 in a row (would be nice) but we all know real test is when playoffs hit May.
So the Leafs fans think they just won the cup AGAIN? Nothing will change now. The "core four" will still run the team and will run Berube out of town with managements backing. A management change is the only way for the Leafs to move ahead, unless it is already too late?
Leafs were bullied into submission by Boston. Listen to the on ice audio. Boston beat them psychologically, got them worried, scared to lose, self-conscious. Not all the leafs, but just enough of the young stars. Berube is the right coach to help them stay focused on the goal, overcome the challenge, play fearless playoff hockey. He knows what it takes.
Marner might want to think about enlisting a mediator to smooth things over with the new coaching staff. "My client's like a delicate soufflé-easily deflated by criticism, loud voices, and any expectations of physicality or toughness from him. He just needs more time to adapt." Perhaps he can hire Keefe to be that guy.
Out is Dubas and Keefe and in are Treliving and Berube so Leafs fans will have to wait and see if the Treliving and Berube combo is better than the Dubas-Keefe duo.
They already are as Dubas was a shitty gm that built a soft team which Treliving brought in better players with grit. Plus Dubas is a work idiot that is now destroying the Pens. Keefe is a horrible coach and was too easy on them, never kept lines with chemistry together, put out the 3rd and 4th lines at wrong times (happened in game 7 on the tying goal), got out coached in important games etc…
Leafs need a lot of changes to compete / beat the teams now playing in the 2nd round. A new coach won't do much until the team is shaken up to a play playoff style hockey system
Leafs need to either bring in the Vegas assistant GM to replace Pridham. Highest Payroll in the league at 97.5 million. You need some new contract guys in this new era. I still think Matthews moves on after this contract if the leafs don't win in the playoffs. I'm hoping that the battle of ontario can get re-ignited as the sens also look to become a playoff team. Lots of good Hockey ahead.
Berube won a cup with a team that someone else built then in the rest of his tenure as the St. Louis head coach, he never made it past the second round
We would have won back to back Cups in St Louis if not for Covid. We fired Berube not because he is a bad coach . Everyone From the owner to General Manager & most of the players still Love him. Our Stanley Cup window just closed. He cannot take young players & develop a cup team. But he will let you know where the problems lie. You have enough talent in Toronto but it will take a few changes that Berube wants. Get ready to play heavy & Forecheck but most importantly you have to Backcheck. No skating around waiting for the Puck, You have to take it. Good luck Toronto. Berube will Never Ever be forgotten here in St Louis. Cant wait until you come to town. It will be one of longest Standing Ovations ever Heard.
Berube is not the answer here. Marner, Tavares, Reilly, Brodie, Shanahan and few select others need to go. Bring in 1 to 2 stud defensemen and a decent goalie and MAYBE you get to the second round otherwise we lose again. This team is NOT built for the playoffs!
And in three years he’ll be out the door for failing to produce a winning team. First time he hurts the feeling of a “star” player your current GM will become all negative with him as a coach just like he did with Sutter in Calgary.
Lmao if Berube hangs his players out to dry in the media.. bye bye as fast as his hiring. Just look at Babcock. These divas are used to be treated as GODs. They won’t allowed a coach to dictate how comfortable they want to be. The Divas loves their warm blankets that Dubas and Shanahan have been bestowed to them.
This is window dressing. The Leafs need Core 4 upgrades before any possibility of Leaf playoff success is possible. With this Leafs Core 4 - come playoffs why bother hiring a Leafs coach? 😀
I don't know that this means much. The coach has to be able to motivate the entitled millionaires to play. Additionally, average goaltending and below average defense. There's only so much any coach can do.
WRONG WRONG WRONG, can"t wait to see this blow up. The guy got lucky one year otherwise he he has been a hack. Listen to our media Berube is a winner, what a joke. How can a cave man coach the high talent. Gallant would be a better choice and smarter man. Shanahan didn't have the balls to hire Roy last year. I hate being Leaf fan but I even hate Toronto media more. Can"t wait to see the carnage
Marner and Travers are the only ones who have had a tough coach. Both played for Dale Hunter, who runs team like they played as players. So this will be normal for them. The other two are the question markers as they have never played for that type of coaching... good luck to them.
The Chief is going to be too tough for the soft Leaf flakes. All going to quit.Toronto fired Babcock because he was too tough on baby Marner. Now Berube is going to be extra tough on their boy Marner, and purse Matthews, Leaf flake fans will cry foul.
Brain was YELLING FOR ROD as the best for the job now he all in .....tsn flop dolla. Ps all 1st round exit save for the blues run that was all Jordan not Berube sorry...not a bad coach but nothing new other then the voice
It doesn't matter who coaches the leafs the team is jinxed since 1967 we had so many coaches and haven't won 💩 so all now Berube is our saviour lol 😂😂😂