Sous Bérubé, Toronto est tombé au 25e rang pour la part de tentatives de tir, et au 23e pour le xG%, mais nous sommes portés par des gardiens d’élite. Cela rappelait beaucoup la saison Carlyle 12-13.
Les deux entraîneurs avaient un système construit autour de l’effondrement dans l’emplacement dans la zone D, permettant un temps de possession important dans l’espoir de protéger l’emplacement bas et de limiter les opportunités de danger élevé, s’appuyant fortement sur les buteurs hors de la course et sur les gardiens de but d’élite.
Tout comme cette année-là, l’année suivante fut un effondrement monumental. Toronto est maintenant tombé à la dernière place (32e) pour la part de tentatives de tir, 29e, en xG%, a en fait augmenté en sh% et a chuté dans ce qui était la seule chose qui portait une équipe horrible, les gardiens de but, du 2e de la ligue à légèrement en dessous de la moyenne au 22e.
Carlyle, l’année où il a été licencié, avait en fait un meilleur xG% et une meilleure part de tentatives de tir (CF%, FF%) que Bérubé cette année. L’année dernière, lorsque Toronto a amené la Floride au G7, nous avions encore un nombre de tentatives de tir pire que l’année où Carlyle a commencé et où Wilson a été congédié. Aucune année sous Babcock ou Keefe n’a été comparable à celle sous Carlyle ou Berube.
Cette équipe que Carlyle entraînait l’année où il a été congédié (14-15) a ouvert la saison avec Clarkson-Komarov-Santorelli comme 2e trio et Percy-Polak comme 2e duo. Bérubé fait pire pour Toronto avec une liste nettement meilleure, et s’il n’est pas renvoyé très bientôt, je m’attends à une saison prochaine horrible et à de grosses demandes d’échanges à venir pour la prochaine décennie sombre. Nous avons besoin d’un nouvel entraîneur et c’est sans doute plus important que l’embauche d’un nouveau directeur général, car si nous perdons nos meilleurs joueurs, cela n’a pas d’importance, et Bérubé le fera.
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Fitz_31
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nah I am good…please leave.
I mean if you haven’t been fired, it’s normal to assume you’re returning. He isn’t gonna fire himself lol
Pdo merchant
There is a lot of “speculation” from insiders he’ll be back next year. I think this is a where there’s smoke, there’s fire, fans need to be ready for him to at least be starting next season
He’s a bad coach , but you also gotta be dumb to expect him to say anything else lol.
What do you want him to say? “Pretty sure I’ll be fired next week”? He’s under contract.
Hey let’s forfeit the first 20 games of the season. Fire Berube before American thanksgiving, scramble to find another coach with limited options mid season. Then we can wonder what went wrong a year from now.
Pelley will insist that Bérubé remain Head Coach as a cost saving measure for MLSE’s 2026/2027 spending budget. The board and shareholders will love that.
He’s the worst coach they’ve had in modern history.
We’re the Toronto Maple Sens now. The bean counters have taken control so I fully expect Berube to return. They aren’t firing a guy with 2 years remaining.
I wish I was joking but I’d bet at least $500 on him returning at least to start the year.
His system sucks. It’s not modern hockey – he needs to go.
Berube a bad coach for this group but Leafs defensive metrics started to go down when Trevelling came in and signed the players he did.
Can you blame him? Our shooting percentage skyrocketed from 10th to 8th
if he is back next year I wont be.
Fire Berube
NO. PLEASE.
What else could he have said?
Well is he supposed to say « Yup, I’m getting axed, and I deserve it? » It would be FUNNY, yes, but of course he’s not gonna say that.
Ultimately it’s up to whoever the new GM is, assuming Pelley doesn’t throw in a « by the way, no touching Berube » stipulation.
Dont expect him to say anything different but if he starts the year with the leafs it’ll be thw first time in over 10 years that I wont be going to any games.
Shame since thats what I usually buy my dad for Christmas but maybe with the islanders farm team coming to hamilton ill just go to multiple of those games
This is a good way to get me to skip the 2026-2027 nhl season lol
No one around to fire him currently…
Imagine how much more dog shit this team would have been if they weren’t 8th in shooting percentage.
Please NO thank you
It’s pretty common knowledge a new GM typically brings his own guy in
Anyone saying expect this guy back next year knows as much as any insider I.e. nothing. We can speculate once we have a new GM
Pelley was asking his opinion on whether we need to retool.
It’s very possible this organization is too cheap and too stupid to fire a guy who is almost unquestionably the worst coach in the NHL currently.
I expect to win the lottery every time I buy a ticket. At least there’s one person more delusional than myself.
I give Berube a 10% chance of returning unless the new GM is planning a slow retool (over 2–3 seasons). If the goal is to have results next year Berube is gone.
This team was so bad this year, its actually crazy to think theres 4 other teams that were worse
Fire his ass tomorrow. Period. If Treliving failed at building the roster, Berube failed just as much in the coaching of what was on the roster. His systems cratered this team and if not for elite goaltending last year, there would have been no playoffs then either.
It’s still odd that they fired the GM above him, and the PP coach under him, but not him.
And with the new hires coming in, and him still in a job, there’s absolutely a scenario where he’s back next year.
Pelley told us a decision on the coach is in ownership’s hand.
The new GM isn’t going to use a bullet right away.
Smart money would suggest he’s back next year.
If he’s not fired I’m tapping out for next season or 2
Philadelphia approves. Even though that pick is bottom 10 protected.
I think he will be back. MLSE will not want to eat that salary.
If they’re so worried about paying out coaches contracts they need to do shorter contracts
this chart shows how bad the change from Dubas to Treviling was. We got worse in every metric.
Wild how all the numbers tanked the second he took over. Of course the players and management take some blame but those numbers don’t lie…
Fuck it. I live out west now. I’m out go Oilers
I’d say that it only makes sense that the next GM hires his/her own coach. I also think that the execs figure that « well, we’re still paying Berube no matter what. Might as well keep him on, long enough to handle the post season stuff. I’m certain there are lots of end of season logistics that need to be taken care of. Why fire him now? Let him close out the season, hire the GM, let Berube go and use the summer to find his replacement.
Damn should’ve just fired Shanahan and kept that Keefe Dubas pairing
Hey chatgpt is this good
Generally you don’t expect one to say « oh I’m so getting fired »
We outhit the other teams in every game though this year. You mean thats not good enough anymore in 2026?