Randy Carlyle fired

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Holy crap! Almost 30 minutes without a shot attempt for the Leafs

fyp, in bold. That's so much worse actually.

[burn_this_city]

The Toronto media must be insufferable to deal with day in and day out.

[Titan]

Wilson ripping the Leafs core: http://www.tsn.ca/video/leafs-lunch-...fault-1.176101

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

The Toronto media must be insufferable to deal with day in and day out.

It's not just the constant MLSE meddling but the local media second guessing pretty well every single move the head coach makes on a daily basis. It's like Leafs media isn't happy unless they are writing a controversial piece about the coach or players, etc. The entire environment is pretty toxic.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Titan

Wilson ripping the Leafs core: http://www.tsn.ca/video/leafs-lunch-...fault-1.176101

Nothing most didn't already know. When your highest paid and best player is a lazy, fat dude it's hard to imagine that there's a "do whatever it takes to win" mentality in the locker room.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

The Jets game was the most dramatic demonstration of why Carlyle was fired. The Leafs have consistently been out shot, out chanced and out everythinged while he was coach.

Am I the only person who's head hurts looking at this graph?

[dustygoon]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Am I the only person who's head hurts looking at this graph?

Come on....the line in blue is Toronto.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Am I the only person who's head hurts looking at this graph?

The fact that war on ice uses virtually the same colour for both teams does not help at all. But what I liked about it is that in the 30-minute period where Toronto generated only one shot attempt at five on five, Winnipeg had about 20. This despite the fact that half the time was spent with one team or another on a man-power advantage.

It has also been noted around Twitter that guys who were poor possession players under Carlyle got a lot better after leaving Toronto. That guys who were good under Wilson turned to crap under Carlyle, and that there are guys who were good pre-Carlyle, crappy under him and good post-Carlyle. In short, Carlyle's system was terrible.

Another image of how the Leafs got bludgeoned in terms of shot attempts under Carlyle. It wasn't a short term trend or bad period of play. The Leafs were consistently and constantly out shot game after game after game. Orange bar is where Carlyle is hired:

[bubbsy]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

The Toronto media must be insufferable to deal with day in and day out.

i used to, and still hate the leafs, which was built up growing up in Calgary. Now i live in TO, have been for 10 years (15 years if you include university in ontario).

What i have realized is that the media here is a frigin ridiculous. The team wins 2 games in a row and they are talking about how their players are amazing and need to be extended, and if they lose 2 they are trading everyone away, firing the coach/gm. This absolutely creeps into the dressing room. With the leafs lacking any real leaders last season, it is no surprise they went on the massive losing run that cost them the playoffs.

[northcrunk]

Kessel loses his cool and calls reporter an 'idiot'

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada...ID/2646248138/

[Resolute 14]

In fairness, Feschuck is an idiot. Kessel needs to know better though.

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

The fact that war on ice uses virtually the same colour for both teams does not help at all. But what I liked about it is that in the 30-minute period where Toronto generated only one shot attempt at five on five, Winnipeg had about 20. This despite the fact that half the time was spent with one team or another on a man-power advantage.

It has also been noted around Twitter that guys who were poor possession players under Carlyle got a lot better after leaving Toronto. That guys who were good under Wilson turned to crap under Carlyle, and that there are guys who were good pre-Carlyle, crappy under him and good post-Carlyle. In short, Carlyle's system was terrible.

Another image of how the Leafs got bludgeoned in terms of shot attempts under Carlyle. It wasn't a short term trend or bad period of play. The Leafs were consistently and constantly out shot game after game after game. Orange bar is where Carlyle is hired:

They always won more than you'd guess from their shot attempts though.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

They always won more than you'd guess from their shot attempts though.

Yes they did. But not enough to be anything but mediocre in the end.

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by atb

Reporter asking Kessel if he's a difficult guy to coach, pretty funny reaction:

http://www.tsn.ca/video/kessel-on-ca...fault-1.176130

Who asked him the question?

[Flame19,289]

The Flames and Leafs have identical 21-16-3 records, yet the atmosphere around each team couldn't be more different.

It's like two teams passing on the stairs... one on the way up and one on the way down.

[bob-loblaw]

Originally Posted by Flame19,289

The Flames and Leafs have identical 21-16-3 records, yet the atmosphere around each team couldn't be more different.

It's like two teams passing on the stairs... one on the way up and one on the way down.

The Oilers corpse is lying on the basement floor at the bottom of the stairs.

[BigTuna]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Odd timing. No doubt he was going to be fired in the offseason barring a long playoff run but what interim coach is going to make the team play unquestionably better?

Seriously? Look at their shots against. Of course an assistant can improve that.

If Maclean and Deboer can be fired, why not Carlyle?

[Igottago]

Idiotic question. Nothing wrong with Kessel's reaction.

Also, was CBC's headline under the video intentional (Kessel gets testy with reporter)? Didn't Kessel have testicular cancer once? Kind of in bad taste.

I honestly don't know why Kessel is such a target for the media.

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by Igottago

Idiotic question. Nothing wrong with Kessel's reaction.

Also, was CBC's headline under the video intentional (Kessel gets testy with reporter)? Didn't Kessel have testicular cancer once? Kind of in bad taste.

I honestly don't know why Kessel is such a target for the media.

Also in bad taste, but Ron Wilson said a coach would have to have balls to bench Kessel when he was bashing him earlier.

[BigTuna]

Originally Posted by Igottago

Idiotic question. Nothing wrong with Kessel's reaction.

Also, was CBC's headline under the video intentional (Kessel gets testy with reporter)? Didn't Kessel have testicular cancer once? Kind of in bad taste.

I honestly don't know why Kessel is such a target for the media.

Kessel is a nice guy who survived cancer. It's stupid he's been bashed more than any player the past few years.

And CBC loves the Leafs, right guys?