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Can Carlyle Turn Things Around?
Posted on 3 Mar 2012 by Ben Fisher.
Look, I'll be the first to question the true impact of a coach in any sport. Fact is, your team is only as good as the players on it and those players shouldn't require a good coach to play hard, nor do they need a bad coach to coast if they should be so inclined. But something had to be done – and fast – for the free-falling Leafs and their 1-9-1 mark over the past 11 games. Withou...
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Leafs’ Season Preview: The Coaching Staff
Posted on 15 Sep 2011 by Ben Fisher.
With training camp set to begin tomorrow to – finally – bring some positive news back to hockey’s forefront, it’s high time to get going on a four-part series of blogs previewing the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2011-12 season. Today, we kick off with a coaching preview, to be followed in the coming weeks with a look at the goaltending situation, blue line, top six and bottom six forwards. Th...
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Coaching Shuffle Brings New Faces
Posted on 20 Jun 2011 by Ben Fisher.
Cynics may suggest that the hiring of Scott Gordon and Greg Cronin – at the expense of Keith Acton and Tim Hunter – as assistants to head coach Ron Wilson may amount to change for change’s sake. And they may not be wrong. After all, it’s hard to get terribly excited about adding a guy with a 64-94-23 head coaching record at the NHL level (Gordon) and a guy who was suspended as head coac...
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Flyers edge Isles in SO 4-3
Posted on 29 Mar 2009 by Frank Mazzola.
Plucky Isles come up just short with aggressive effort Apparently, Sir Elton John had it right: Saturday night IS all right for fighting. Daniel Briere and Mike Richards scored in the shootout period to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a come-from-behind 4-3 win in a brawl-filled game against the New York Islanders Saturday at the Nassau Coliseum. The Flyers received two goals from Joffrey L...









