Team & morale building at its finest... http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...on-wilson-right-to-criticize-his-goalies?bn=1 ...
The NEW Toronto Maple Leafs DEATH WATCH THREAD
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- GM Brian Burke, on rushing a deadline deal.
Much better to finish 10th, 11th, 12th...and rebuild,,cough,, cough,, cough,, ... AGAIN ...
Much better to finish 10th, 11th, 12th...and rebuild,,cough,, cough,, cough,, ... AGAIN ...
Hillarious stuff!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Leafs fans have a great sense of humor! Keep it up, guys, i love it! :thumb:
Leafs fans have a great sense of humor! Keep it up, guys, i love it! :thumb:
Is there a worst defenseman in the NHL than Luke Schenn? No wonder the "brain" couldn't find any takers for this 3.5 million dollar STIFF.
FIRE WILSON,FIRE WILSON, wonder if his buddy heard the crowd chanting this tonight.
This season is definately turning into a monumental collapse for Canada's national embarrassement.
FIRE WILSON,FIRE WILSON, wonder if his buddy heard the crowd chanting this tonight.
This season is definately turning into a monumental collapse for Canada's national embarrassement.
What's left to say about Leafs?
Team's play on the ice speaks volumes about the state of this moribund bunch
TORONTO - After watching the Maple Leafs grope around like a drunk looking for the keyhole, we went back to Tuesday morning’s Toronto Sun to make sure we’d read all that blue and white blarney correctly:
• GM Brian Burke: “I think it’s remarkable that the players have kept their focus throughout this time”
If 1-8-1 is focused, we’d hate to see the Leafs distracted. The trade deadline had passed, the cloud lifted and the rumour-mongering media would no longer be hounding the fragile players. Yet they lost 5-3 to a Florida team without top gun Kris Versteeg and looked as fumble-fingered as ever in the crucial opening minutes where they fell behind 2-0 for the fifth straight game, No start, no finish.
• Goaltender James Reimer: “There’s no need to panic.”
The 19,420 fans at the ACC skipped that and went right to torch and pitchfork mode, roasting Reimer for two goals on two shots and then the main course, coach Ron Wilson. One e-mailer said he was disappointed Burke didn’t install Dallas Eakins or Randy Carlyle on the bench between the first and second periods.
“Frustrating, but understandable,” Wilson said of hearing the loudest-ever chants to fire him, on the night he tied Pat Quinn for NHL games coached with 1,400.
Burke was in the dressing room afterward, not to hand out pink slips, but to give some visiting suits a tour. But Wilson can’t survive a fourth season out of the playoffs, especially with a healthy roster at crunch time.
“There’s no pressure now except positive pressure from the playoff race,” a glum Wilson said. “And we didn’t help ourselves at all.”
• Defenceman Luke Schenn: “It’s a big game for us tonight. Hopefully we get started on the right foot.”
Schenn stepped right into the cat box instead, his second major first-period faux pas in as many games.
“That’s obviously my fault, I messed up really badly first shift,” the contrite Schenn said. “One hundred per cent, I’ll take the blame for that. It was a routine play, a normal D to D play to move the puck to the wall. I have no excuse for it.”
It would help though if Reimer could be a bit more prepared for these foul-ups. You don’t expect to make a game-saving stop 10 seconds in, but he’s had plenty of warning the way the Leafs have opened the past few nights.
• Winger Joffrey Lupul: “This is the time of year when you shouldn’t have bad games.”
Lupul has been around the block and it’s high time the few veterans on this young Leafs roster put some of that experience to use.
“It starts with the oldest guys, the guys who have letters on their jerseys,” agreed Mike Komisarek. “It’s up to us to lead by example and to be vocal and say the right things. There’s no excuses. We need results and we need results now. Our season is on the line, every shift, every night.”
Unfortunately, Komisarek and fellow alternate Colby Armstrong are sitting in the press box most nights and captain Don Phaneuf can only offer cliches.
• Burke on the playoff race: “The schedule favours us in terms of the teams that we play. We have control whether we get in or not.”
That hammer is rapidly slipping from the Leafs’ grasp, with the growing conference losses and three-point games creating movement above and below them in the standings. They end the month on Wednesday in Chicago, then have Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia in the first 10 days of March. They are currently playing six of the next seven with teams in the top eight.
After beating Edmonton on Feb. 6 to give them 62 points. The Leafs needed about 15 regulation wins to get to the low 90s for the magic playoff spot. Almost a month later, they desperately need 15 wins — and a whole lot of help.
• Burke on not making any major deadline moves: “I think some people will be disappointed in that, but I’m not.”
Did anyone get the irony of the intermission contest where fans pushed empty shopping carts to centre ice?
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/29/whats-left-to-say
Team's play on the ice speaks volumes about the state of this moribund bunch
TORONTO - After watching the Maple Leafs grope around like a drunk looking for the keyhole, we went back to Tuesday morning’s Toronto Sun to make sure we’d read all that blue and white blarney correctly:
• GM Brian Burke: “I think it’s remarkable that the players have kept their focus throughout this time”
If 1-8-1 is focused, we’d hate to see the Leafs distracted. The trade deadline had passed, the cloud lifted and the rumour-mongering media would no longer be hounding the fragile players. Yet they lost 5-3 to a Florida team without top gun Kris Versteeg and looked as fumble-fingered as ever in the crucial opening minutes where they fell behind 2-0 for the fifth straight game, No start, no finish.
• Goaltender James Reimer: “There’s no need to panic.”
The 19,420 fans at the ACC skipped that and went right to torch and pitchfork mode, roasting Reimer for two goals on two shots and then the main course, coach Ron Wilson. One e-mailer said he was disappointed Burke didn’t install Dallas Eakins or Randy Carlyle on the bench between the first and second periods.
“Frustrating, but understandable,” Wilson said of hearing the loudest-ever chants to fire him, on the night he tied Pat Quinn for NHL games coached with 1,400.
Burke was in the dressing room afterward, not to hand out pink slips, but to give some visiting suits a tour. But Wilson can’t survive a fourth season out of the playoffs, especially with a healthy roster at crunch time.
“There’s no pressure now except positive pressure from the playoff race,” a glum Wilson said. “And we didn’t help ourselves at all.”
• Defenceman Luke Schenn: “It’s a big game for us tonight. Hopefully we get started on the right foot.”
Schenn stepped right into the cat box instead, his second major first-period faux pas in as many games.
“That’s obviously my fault, I messed up really badly first shift,” the contrite Schenn said. “One hundred per cent, I’ll take the blame for that. It was a routine play, a normal D to D play to move the puck to the wall. I have no excuse for it.”
It would help though if Reimer could be a bit more prepared for these foul-ups. You don’t expect to make a game-saving stop 10 seconds in, but he’s had plenty of warning the way the Leafs have opened the past few nights.
• Winger Joffrey Lupul: “This is the time of year when you shouldn’t have bad games.”
Lupul has been around the block and it’s high time the few veterans on this young Leafs roster put some of that experience to use.
“It starts with the oldest guys, the guys who have letters on their jerseys,” agreed Mike Komisarek. “It’s up to us to lead by example and to be vocal and say the right things. There’s no excuses. We need results and we need results now. Our season is on the line, every shift, every night.”
Unfortunately, Komisarek and fellow alternate Colby Armstrong are sitting in the press box most nights and captain Don Phaneuf can only offer cliches.
• Burke on the playoff race: “The schedule favours us in terms of the teams that we play. We have control whether we get in or not.”
That hammer is rapidly slipping from the Leafs’ grasp, with the growing conference losses and three-point games creating movement above and below them in the standings. They end the month on Wednesday in Chicago, then have Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia in the first 10 days of March. They are currently playing six of the next seven with teams in the top eight.
After beating Edmonton on Feb. 6 to give them 62 points. The Leafs needed about 15 regulation wins to get to the low 90s for the magic playoff spot. Almost a month later, they desperately need 15 wins — and a whole lot of help.
• Burke on not making any major deadline moves: “I think some people will be disappointed in that, but I’m not.”
Did anyone get the irony of the intermission contest where fans pushed empty shopping carts to centre ice?
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/29/whats-left-to-say
Another dubious achievement for the LAFFS
There’s another little piece of embarrassment facing the Leafs after their fifth consecutive loss. Since the lockout that killed the 2004-05 season, only two clubs — the Leafs and Panthers — have not participated in the Stanley Cup playoffs. With 72 points, Florida is a lot closer than Toronto. So it’s a dubious achievement that the Leafs could have all to themselves in April. Lovely.
There’s another little piece of embarrassment facing the Leafs after their fifth consecutive loss. Since the lockout that killed the 2004-05 season, only two clubs — the Leafs and Panthers — have not participated in the Stanley Cup playoffs. With 72 points, Florida is a lot closer than Toronto. So it’s a dubious achievement that the Leafs could have all to themselves in April. Lovely.
What do the Leafs and the Titanic have in common?
They both look good until they hit the ice.
Q: What do a criminal court judge and the coach of the Maple Leafs have in common?
A: They both sit behind a bench, watch an endless parade of losers go by, and wonder if they are actually making a difference.
Q: What's the difference between Air Miles and the Toronto Maple Leafs?
A: Air Miles earn points.
Q: What do a fine wine and the Maple Leafs have in common?
A: They both spend a lot of time in the cellar, cost too much and are only enjoyed on select occasions.
Q: What do college students and the Maple Leafs have in common?
A: They've both finished their year by April.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQej3_EBVmU
They both look good until they hit the ice.
Q: What do a criminal court judge and the coach of the Maple Leafs have in common?
A: They both sit behind a bench, watch an endless parade of losers go by, and wonder if they are actually making a difference.
Q: What's the difference between Air Miles and the Toronto Maple Leafs?
A: Air Miles earn points.
Q: What do a fine wine and the Maple Leafs have in common?
A: They both spend a lot of time in the cellar, cost too much and are only enjoyed on select occasions.
Q: What do college students and the Maple Leafs have in common?
A: They've both finished their year by April.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQej3_EBVmU
Nothing's changed under Burke
Blue and White disease remains rampant despite GM's promises
There was so much optimism then. There was so much to believe in. It wasn’t just Burke taking over a franchise in need of vision and destination, it was everything he promised. It was how he spoke with such confidence, coming off a Stanley Cup in Anaheim and a strong, contending team in Vancouver. It was how the Maple Leafs, after years of doing things wrong, were finally going to build an organization around Burke, the right way, just as the Red Wings did.
And when Ken Holland showed no interest in leaving Detroit for Toronto after being quietly and unofficially approached, Leafs ownership was thrilled to have Burke, expensive as he might have been, to turn the keys and full control over to.
Burke made it clear from his first day on the job that he was too impatient to rebuild. There would be no five-year plans. He would be aggressive in the trade market, aggressive in free agency. He wasn’t one to sit around and wait.
So here we are: After 288 games with Burke as president and general manager, in a dubious place once again, with not one of those games being in the post-season. The past four seasons have been entertaining, mostly because the general manager is always one rant, one speech, one verbal assault, one press conference away from being the lead item on the news on any given day. Never has a team or its general manager made more news for having less success. It is forever loud around the Leafs: But what’s startling and troubling and head-scratching after four seasons of Burke in Toronto is how much he sold, and how little he has actually delivered on his promises. Were he a politician and standing for re-election, Burke would have great difficulty defending his record.
He said on Day 1 — and has reiterated numerous times — that he builds his teams from the “back end out.” That, if you read the standings, is the key to success for most NHL teams.
But that hasn’t been the Leafs way in four seasons of Burke. Cumulatively, the Leafs have allowed more goals against in his time in Toronto than any other team in the Eastern Conference. The Leafs are last in goals against in the East this season. They were last in Burke’s first two years on the job and vaulted to 13th in the conference last season.
For half a season in Burke’s time here — the first run of James Reimer — the Leafs have had competent goaltending. The rest of the time? Spotty. For a team looking to build from the “back end out” they had yet to identify a dependable goaltender, which has been a constant of sorts in Burke’s career. And all that has happened with Burke’s chosen goaltender guru, Francois Allaire, in charge of the netminders.
Just as he did in Anaheim, Burke replaced almost an entire defence in a short time with the Leafs, bringing in Dion Phaneuf, Mike Komisarek, Francois Beauchemin (for a short time), John-Michael Liles, Jake Gardiner, Cody Franson, Keith Aulie and elevating Carl Gunnarrson to join holdover Luke Schenn on the blueline. He would brashly tell anyone he had as deep a defence as anyone in hockey. Deep, yes. Successful, no. Burke won a Stanley Cup with Chris Pronger and Scott Niedermayer playing the majority of minutes in Anaheim. What he has discovered in Toronto is he has no one close to those all-timers here.
When he was first hired, Burke was adamant he had no time for a rebuild or a five-year plan. His impatience led to the controversial trading for Phil Kessel, which has been an excellent short-term addition for the Leafs. Kessel is clearly the Maple Leafs’ best forward and has made his way into the top 10 in league scoring this season. That was the gain. The loss was the draft picks that turned out to be young centre, Tyler Seguin, Team Canada defenceman Dougie Hamilton and prospect Jared Knight. The Leafs have 94 goals from Kessel in three seasons, this one not yet complete. The Bruins have 31 goals, a Stanley Cup and some future to show for the deal.
But as for not having time for a five-year rebuild, next year will be Burke’s fifth season in Toronto. He has yet to deliver a playoff game, even in this season where it appeared so easily attainable, and there is no certainty one will come next year.
Burke himself would have scoffed at any thought that it would take this long to not contend, to just be an eighth-place team. But the reality is, it has taken this long. And next season is Year 5 of the five-year plan he had no patience for.
Burke vowed from his first day on the job that the Leafs would become a tough team, his favourite word being truculence. His teams, as he likes to say, were always difficult to play against. And after signing free agent Colton Orr, he would often say how much harder it was to play against his team now that Orr was here. That was his belief.
It wasn’t lasting. The Leafs are almost the opposite in nature of the type of team Burke wanted. Orr, who ran out of time and place with the Leafs, was dispatched to the minors and emotionally that was hard on the general manager. It was a defeat of philosophy and loyalty. The signing of Colby Armstrong was supposed to bring a certain tenacity with it. But between injuries and ineffectiveness, Armstrong has proven to be just another poor free-agent signing, one of many poor free-agent signings by Burke.
When successful this season, the team that coach Ron Wilson iced got by on speed, finesse and offensive bursts from Kessel, Joffrey Lupul, Gardiner and Mikhail Grabovski, those who can change a game.
The Leafs can’t out-tough anyone. They don’t have the people to play Burke’s game, if that game still exists. It isn’t their nature.
Before coming to Toronto, Burke’s teams in Vancouver, Anaheim and Hartford had won 76 more games than they’d lost. His record, except in Hartford, where he wasn’t there long enough, was that he made teams better. His work on the Sedin twins set up the Canucks for years of success. His manipulations to get Pronger and Niedermayer to Anaheim brought a Cup to the Ducks. But the fine additions of Kessel, Lupul, Phaneuf and Gardiner have not accomplished the same in Toronto.
The Leafs played their 288th game under Burke in Chicago on Wednesday night: Entering that game, they had won 123. In the new three-point world of the NHL, the Leafs have managed 287 points in Burke’s first 287 games. That’ s an 82-point pace — good enough most years to contend for a 10th pick in the draft, but not much else.
In his early years on the job, Burke spoke often about Blue and White disease, about a sense of entitlement that failed the franchise, about ridding the team of that troubled entity. But what’s happened? He has become something of a poster boy for Blue and White disease, louder than he should be considering how little success he’s attained. The undeserved contract extension granted to coach Wilson was as much about entitlement as anything else. It was pure Blue and White.
And his recent barb about the trade deadline pressure sending his club to oblivion was little more than protecting the same kind of players he scorned privately and publicly upon being hired here.
It is clear now the coach will be changed going forward and maybe with it the team and the culture will change also. But for Brian Burke and his “time is now” approach, his time has yet to come. Four years are gone. How many more before Toronto plays a post-season game?
[email protected]
Blue and White disease remains rampant despite GM's promises
There was so much optimism then. There was so much to believe in. It wasn’t just Burke taking over a franchise in need of vision and destination, it was everything he promised. It was how he spoke with such confidence, coming off a Stanley Cup in Anaheim and a strong, contending team in Vancouver. It was how the Maple Leafs, after years of doing things wrong, were finally going to build an organization around Burke, the right way, just as the Red Wings did.
And when Ken Holland showed no interest in leaving Detroit for Toronto after being quietly and unofficially approached, Leafs ownership was thrilled to have Burke, expensive as he might have been, to turn the keys and full control over to.
Burke made it clear from his first day on the job that he was too impatient to rebuild. There would be no five-year plans. He would be aggressive in the trade market, aggressive in free agency. He wasn’t one to sit around and wait.
So here we are: After 288 games with Burke as president and general manager, in a dubious place once again, with not one of those games being in the post-season. The past four seasons have been entertaining, mostly because the general manager is always one rant, one speech, one verbal assault, one press conference away from being the lead item on the news on any given day. Never has a team or its general manager made more news for having less success. It is forever loud around the Leafs: But what’s startling and troubling and head-scratching after four seasons of Burke in Toronto is how much he sold, and how little he has actually delivered on his promises. Were he a politician and standing for re-election, Burke would have great difficulty defending his record.
He said on Day 1 — and has reiterated numerous times — that he builds his teams from the “back end out.” That, if you read the standings, is the key to success for most NHL teams.
But that hasn’t been the Leafs way in four seasons of Burke. Cumulatively, the Leafs have allowed more goals against in his time in Toronto than any other team in the Eastern Conference. The Leafs are last in goals against in the East this season. They were last in Burke’s first two years on the job and vaulted to 13th in the conference last season.
For half a season in Burke’s time here — the first run of James Reimer — the Leafs have had competent goaltending. The rest of the time? Spotty. For a team looking to build from the “back end out” they had yet to identify a dependable goaltender, which has been a constant of sorts in Burke’s career. And all that has happened with Burke’s chosen goaltender guru, Francois Allaire, in charge of the netminders.
Just as he did in Anaheim, Burke replaced almost an entire defence in a short time with the Leafs, bringing in Dion Phaneuf, Mike Komisarek, Francois Beauchemin (for a short time), John-Michael Liles, Jake Gardiner, Cody Franson, Keith Aulie and elevating Carl Gunnarrson to join holdover Luke Schenn on the blueline. He would brashly tell anyone he had as deep a defence as anyone in hockey. Deep, yes. Successful, no. Burke won a Stanley Cup with Chris Pronger and Scott Niedermayer playing the majority of minutes in Anaheim. What he has discovered in Toronto is he has no one close to those all-timers here.
When he was first hired, Burke was adamant he had no time for a rebuild or a five-year plan. His impatience led to the controversial trading for Phil Kessel, which has been an excellent short-term addition for the Leafs. Kessel is clearly the Maple Leafs’ best forward and has made his way into the top 10 in league scoring this season. That was the gain. The loss was the draft picks that turned out to be young centre, Tyler Seguin, Team Canada defenceman Dougie Hamilton and prospect Jared Knight. The Leafs have 94 goals from Kessel in three seasons, this one not yet complete. The Bruins have 31 goals, a Stanley Cup and some future to show for the deal.
But as for not having time for a five-year rebuild, next year will be Burke’s fifth season in Toronto. He has yet to deliver a playoff game, even in this season where it appeared so easily attainable, and there is no certainty one will come next year.
Burke himself would have scoffed at any thought that it would take this long to not contend, to just be an eighth-place team. But the reality is, it has taken this long. And next season is Year 5 of the five-year plan he had no patience for.
Burke vowed from his first day on the job that the Leafs would become a tough team, his favourite word being truculence. His teams, as he likes to say, were always difficult to play against. And after signing free agent Colton Orr, he would often say how much harder it was to play against his team now that Orr was here. That was his belief.
It wasn’t lasting. The Leafs are almost the opposite in nature of the type of team Burke wanted. Orr, who ran out of time and place with the Leafs, was dispatched to the minors and emotionally that was hard on the general manager. It was a defeat of philosophy and loyalty. The signing of Colby Armstrong was supposed to bring a certain tenacity with it. But between injuries and ineffectiveness, Armstrong has proven to be just another poor free-agent signing, one of many poor free-agent signings by Burke.
When successful this season, the team that coach Ron Wilson iced got by on speed, finesse and offensive bursts from Kessel, Joffrey Lupul, Gardiner and Mikhail Grabovski, those who can change a game.
The Leafs can’t out-tough anyone. They don’t have the people to play Burke’s game, if that game still exists. It isn’t their nature.
Before coming to Toronto, Burke’s teams in Vancouver, Anaheim and Hartford had won 76 more games than they’d lost. His record, except in Hartford, where he wasn’t there long enough, was that he made teams better. His work on the Sedin twins set up the Canucks for years of success. His manipulations to get Pronger and Niedermayer to Anaheim brought a Cup to the Ducks. But the fine additions of Kessel, Lupul, Phaneuf and Gardiner have not accomplished the same in Toronto.
The Leafs played their 288th game under Burke in Chicago on Wednesday night: Entering that game, they had won 123. In the new three-point world of the NHL, the Leafs have managed 287 points in Burke’s first 287 games. That’ s an 82-point pace — good enough most years to contend for a 10th pick in the draft, but not much else.
In his early years on the job, Burke spoke often about Blue and White disease, about a sense of entitlement that failed the franchise, about ridding the team of that troubled entity. But what’s happened? He has become something of a poster boy for Blue and White disease, louder than he should be considering how little success he’s attained. The undeserved contract extension granted to coach Wilson was as much about entitlement as anything else. It was pure Blue and White.
And his recent barb about the trade deadline pressure sending his club to oblivion was little more than protecting the same kind of players he scorned privately and publicly upon being hired here.
It is clear now the coach will be changed going forward and maybe with it the team and the culture will change also. But for Brian Burke and his “time is now” approach, his time has yet to come. Four years are gone. How many more before Toronto plays a post-season game?
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I was at last night's game......good effort, same result. This season that was full of promise turned into a total disappointment since the all-star break. The Leafs started well last night, taking an early 2-0 lead. However, letting in that goal with about 26 seconds left to go in the first period was a killer. You can't let the opposition score in the last minute of a period; it always comes back to haunt you. Always!
I asked the usher to take this picture of me near the end of the game:
I asked the usher to take this picture of me near the end of the game:
Details to be announced later this week...
...but rumor has it that Bieber mania will soon sweep Toronto...:lol::lol::lol:...
LOL!!!!!! :lol:
And the best part, he'd be the wealthiest person in the entire organizatio outside of Larry Tannenbaum, yet, he wouldn't cost the team a penny! :thumb:
Maple leafs fire head coach wilson, no replacement named
The Toronto Maple Leafs slide out of a playoff position has cost head coach Ron Wilson his job.
According to TSN's Darren Dreger the club let Wilson go on Friday evening, two days after the club's 5-4 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Leafs, who only have one win in their last 11 games, have fallen out of a playoff spot, and currently sit in 11th place in the Eastern Conference.
The move comes just a few months after Wilson was given a one-year contract extension in late December.
Wilson's replacement has not been named, but it is believed that Randy Carlyle will take over.
Chants of "Fire Wilson!" echoed through Air Canada Centre when the Maple Leafs fell 5-3 to the Florida Panthers on (Tuesday) Feb. 28. The game marked Wilson's 1,400th career NHL game coached, tying him with Pat Quinn for fourth on the all-time list.
Hired in 2008, Wilson was unable to guide the Maple Leafs to the playoffs during his tenure. They currently own the NHL's second-longest playoff drought at seven years.
Wilson recorded a 34-35-13 mark in his Maple Leafs debut, the club finishing 12th in the Eastern Conference. The following year, the team posted a 30-38-14 record and finished last in the Conference. Last season, Wilson had his first winning season with the Maple Leafs, going 37-34-11, which was good enough for 10th in the Conference.
Through 64 games this season, the Maple Leafs are 29-28-7 under Wilson.
Burkie boy should check the locker room for fried chicken and beer...:lol:...down to 11th...how low can they go?!? :help:
The Toronto Maple Leafs slide out of a playoff position has cost head coach Ron Wilson his job.
According to TSN's Darren Dreger the club let Wilson go on Friday evening, two days after the club's 5-4 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Leafs, who only have one win in their last 11 games, have fallen out of a playoff spot, and currently sit in 11th place in the Eastern Conference.
The move comes just a few months after Wilson was given a one-year contract extension in late December.
Wilson's replacement has not been named, but it is believed that Randy Carlyle will take over.
Chants of "Fire Wilson!" echoed through Air Canada Centre when the Maple Leafs fell 5-3 to the Florida Panthers on (Tuesday) Feb. 28. The game marked Wilson's 1,400th career NHL game coached, tying him with Pat Quinn for fourth on the all-time list.
Hired in 2008, Wilson was unable to guide the Maple Leafs to the playoffs during his tenure. They currently own the NHL's second-longest playoff drought at seven years.
Wilson recorded a 34-35-13 mark in his Maple Leafs debut, the club finishing 12th in the Eastern Conference. The following year, the team posted a 30-38-14 record and finished last in the Conference. Last season, Wilson had his first winning season with the Maple Leafs, going 37-34-11, which was good enough for 10th in the Conference.
Through 64 games this season, the Maple Leafs are 29-28-7 under Wilson.
Burkie boy should check the locker room for fried chicken and beer...:lol:...down to 11th...how low can they go?!? :help:
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