I haven’t watched much hockey this year because the state of the Maple Leafs depresses me. However today, I’m glad that Randy Carlyle has been fired as the coach! Hopefully the new coach that we hire will be one who is more analytical in their approach.

We’ve actually made baby steps this year, by employing better scrubs (i.e., 4th liners) and hiring some stats-oriented people for the front office. I’m not sure whether or not Shanahan coming on had much to do with it or not. Now we just need to jettison Nonis and Clarkson, the former of which should be coming and the latter is almost impossible.

I don’t think there’s any point in getting rid of Kessel (he’s actually good value for money) or Phaneuf (kind of expensive, but who would you replace him with). We’ll just have to ride it out and hopefully the new coach can better utilize their talents.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: hockey