Posts About "Sheldon Keefe"
Maple Leafs News & Rumors: Tavares, Power Play, Babcock, Marner
December 4th, 2019 It has been a busy couple of weeks for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Sheldon Keefe Era has begun and the team has changed both big and small things about the way it plays. Until the team ran into the hot Philadelphia Flyers' goalie Carter Hart on Dec. 3 and lost 6-1, it was so far, so good. The team has won four of six games under...
Maple Leafs: Culture, Confidence and a Cure
December 4th, 2019 Around winning teams there’s a certain culture - a mentality that drive each and every individual in the room to go out there and lay everything on the line for one another. That was something that was missing to some extent in the Toronto Maple Leafs dressing and it showed in their play on the ice throughout the first 23 games of...
Sheldon Keefe Implementing Kyle Dubas' Vision
December 3rd, 2019 In the first five games of Sheldon Keefe's tenure with the Toronto Maple Leafs, we have seen considerable changes. The Leafs are off to a 3-1-1 start under Keefe and look like a revitalized group. It is evident that a few systematic changes to the teams' style of play have paid immediate dividends. What we do know, is that general...
Are Keefe's Maple Leafs the Real Deal?
November 30th, 2019 It's been just over a week since the Toronto Maple Leafs fired head coach Mike Babcock and named Sheldon Keefe as his replacement. A lot has changed since then, hasn't it? A Maple Leafs team that looked disjointed and disengaged under Babcock, on pace for just 78 points through 23 games, is now rejuvenated under their new boss. In...
Maple Leafs Finding Success Under Keefe
November 30th, 2019 When Sheldon Keefe took over as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, many wondered if he could turn the team around. Because of his shared vision with general manager Kyle Dubas, we knew that the Maple Leafs would be in good hands going forward. What we didn’t expect was the turn around to happen so quickly. The team needed a...
Witnessing the Maple Leafs' New Puck-Possession Philosophy in Action
November 29th, 2019 Sheldon Keefe is coaching the team that general manager Kyle Dubas has put together, and so far the results are beyond positive. In watching Dubas work over the past two seasons, I believe he had something specific in mind when he built this Toronto Maple Leafs team. Related: Ex-Maple Leafs’ Mike Babcock: Stubborn, Confusing, and...
