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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Eakins got a big Toronto push, and that skews perceptions. I look at him like I do Craig Button as our GM. It became very obvious very fast that what we got was not what the hype machine said he was.
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The fact that the Leafs passed on him is kind of telling of how good of a coach they thought he really was. They were sitting right on him and if they thought he was the next great young coach they surely would have hired him. Flames interviewed him as well and it seems like he has interviewed for a few positions over the years but only one team was willing to give him a job and it just happens to be the most incompetent one in the NHL which may also be telling.
Personally I feel he's finding that coaching in the NHL is a lot more difficult and challenging than coaching in the AHL and it appears to me at least that he thought he could use the same tactics in the NHL that worked for him in the AHL and it's just not working and he hasn't or won't adjust.