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Alex
PickupHockey All-Star
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 Posted - 05/07/2008 : 09:55:09
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Poll Question:
Paul Maurice has been relieved of his duties by interim General Manager Cliff Fletcher. Does he deserve the blame for the team's poor performance?
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Edited by - Alex on 05/07/2008 09:56:23
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leafsfan_101
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Canada
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Posted - 05/07/2008 : 13:12:07
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There is no doubt that Maurice deserved to be fired. At times the Leafs were the worst team in the league this year and Maurice didn't look like he was doing anything. He lost the locker room during the year and was one of the factors that prevented the Leafs from going into the playoffs.
Management needed a shake up and Maurice had to go. Period. |
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Leafsfan_94
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 05/07/2008 : 14:32:34
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definetely. he is the reason the leafs have sucked so much. im running short on time so ill say the one thing that i hate.
what he does to Darcy Tucker
this guy bleeds blue blood and he plays him on the 3rd and fourth line. later in the year. when he started playing good. he played him on the 1st/2nd line and he was there best playre for the rest of the season.(last 10 games maybe)
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leafsfan_101
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 05/07/2008 : 14:38:29
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I wouldn't blame all of the failure of the Leafs in the past 2 years on Maurice. Not even half. Maurice never coached the Leafs well, partly because he was short ended with such a horrible team. No, it's not Maurice's fault entirely.
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Leafsfan_94
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 05/07/2008 : 14:43:42
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i agree it wasnt all his fault but he didnt do the best he could, especially when it came to making lines. he made the worst choices. like on 06-07 sundin poni and antropov. that was a horrible line
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Originally posted by leafsfan_101
I wouldn't blame all of the failure of the Leafs in the past 2 years on Maurice. Not even half. Maurice never coached the Leafs well, partly because he was short ended with such a horrible team. No, it's not Maurice's fault entirely.
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leafsfan_101
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 05/07/2008 : 15:11:22
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I thought that was an effective line. All three players had good size and could feed the puck to Sundin so that he could do what he did behind the net. It was also a good shutdown line, again having to do with the size of the players.
I also think that you can never say that someone didn't do their job to the best of thier ability. Maurice did his best everyday he was the Leafs coach. Unfortunatly his best didn't garner great results and he was canned because of it. |
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Posted - 05/08/2008 : 08:32:38
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Easy to fire a coach, when you have so many bloated contracts, overpaid underachievers, and AHL prospects on the team!
Maurice wasn't my favourite coach, but I don't think he did poorly for the Leafs. He seemed very well prepared, certainly had the room, the players respected him, and I thought he made do quite well considering what he had to work with.
The move struck me as strange, in terms of timing. Why fire the coach before the new general manager is brought in? Why not let your new top guy make those decisions - after all, he may actually keep him on! I heard afterward from Cliff Fletcher that the reasoning was he wanted to fire Maurice early, for HIS sake, because he wanted to know early . . . but the decision to fire before a general manager is brought in still seems quite odd to me.
The whole rates a "meh". 
"Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug |
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Beans15
Moderator
Canada
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Posted - 05/08/2008 : 10:20:36
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I agree that he didn't have much to work with, but there were many time through this last season that he appeared to have given up. If the coach had given up, most of the players will follow suit.
That team is destined for a decade long run of futility. Just like in the 80's. |
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Maurice Gets Fired 
