Damien Cox: It’s time for the Maple Leafs to fire coach Sheldon Keefe and bring in Bruce Boudreau
to make a coaching move then, and Keefe did right the ship, moving the Leafs into the top five of the NHL for most of the season.
But now there are 28 games left, the mood towards this team is shifting and Boudreau is available. So a few things have changed since October. For a team that seems so stoic in the face of victory or defeat, a team that sometimes seems more driven by the nightly mood of its best players more than team excellence, bringing in the affable, quotable and often potty-mouthed Boudreau might inject some much needed passion into a season that has so much of the time felt like an 82-game trudge to an inevitable first round meeting with the Tampa Bay Lightning., the worst team in the league, sounded a little like a coach feeling defeated.
“I can’t do the work for them,” he said after the 4-3 defeat to a team the Leafs had handled with relative ease the night before in Ohio. The Leafs have now won only five of 13 games this season against the four worst teams in the league. Keefe said he told his players after a second period in which the Blue Jackets scored three times that it was up to them to understand the value of the two points.They decided it wasn’t that important. But it wasn’t just this game. The Leafs
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