Akakabuto

just gonna leave this here

I think there is a fine line that a coach like Babcock(just like Bowman) have to walk. You are right, the players don't have to like you. But they have to respect you. Uncle Mike seems to have lost the respect of his players and thats a failure on his part. He is a wellpayed professional coach, he should be able to handle young players, veterans, superstars and grinders. More worrisome for him is this seems to have happened before. He needs to change and evolve. The best way to make the players respect you is to win games. If your line-up/TOI and gameplan brings the team to win you can be as big of an hard-ass you want. You are making the right decisions and the players will respect that. When Babcock have been losing games he also seems to have lost his players. He is stubborn in his way of coaching and if his gameplan isn't working its on the players to work harder. When you lose that message gets stale pretty fast. Him being fired from the Leafs is entirely on himself. I agree with many others that the roster is very top-heavy and is missing some important role players that are part of the make-up of cup winning team. But if you want to keep your job you try to win games any way you can with the players you got. Babcock didn't want that. He wanted to win his way and refused to use his roster to its full potential. If you are under by one in the last seconds of the game you don't send out Hyman and others of the like as a reward for hard work with Matthews, Tavares and Nylander on the bench. You will lose. And do it an enough number of times you will be fired.

The HYPE is real!

Lets get back up on that horse, lads.

Love this.

Lehner too! PS, T. Bertuzzi is elite.

Hey, Nielsen got a point. Sell him while the value is up, Stevie!

I was thinking of Nashville too. Seems like a good fit for Babs. Maybe Flyers. I doubt he wants to take on another rebuild project. The guy wants to win.

Sounds like a job for McIlrath

How are we looking boys?

4-3 OT edit: Bertuzzi GWG (assisted by Fabbri) L*GRW!

Whats the verdict on Brandon vs Brendan?

We still need centermen. Thats my bet.

We still need centermen. Thats my bet.

He can center my first line any day

Bruins up next lol

Man, Stevie is going to be dissapointed when he realize its not Fabbro he traded for.

The Brittish trying to speak english is kinda cute. I only speak and write in American.

Yeah, I like Bean too. The idea was to be sort of buying low on Haydn. Doesn't seem to get a ton of TOI. Maybe AA is a bit too much to give up.

You have no idea. Finns speaking swedish is orcish. But when the fennoswedes speak their swedish in finland its actually kinda cute.

AA for Haydn Fleury. Would you do it?

That would make swedes the new finns.

The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi. And The Rise of Skywalker will be. Forgot about this one. Agreed.

Carley is the best thing about the Red Wings right now. #Carley4Coach

The new Star Wars movies.