And in fairness to Babcock, the team does have two hugely glaring deficiencies.StCapps wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:34 pmI concur.Smitty-48 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:19 pmI think he will go, but not next year, unless the team spiraled down right out of the gate, but they're not likely to do that. If they do this again next year, another choke, then I could see him going.StCapps wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:16 pmHe played Matthew less than 20 minutes in game 7, despite the fact that he was the Leafs star choking the least throughout this series, he refuses to give his best players ice time, so he can play third and fourth liners that he likes more often, he needs to go.
It's Tannenbaum who has to fire him basically, and I think Babcock would argue that he never got the player upgrades he needed, and Tannenbaum would probably agree.
I don't agree, obviously it's the Mike Babcock Country Club, but the lack of a decisive trade or two to upgrade the lineup probably gives him an out.
They don't have a power forward and they don't have a power defenseman.
Matthews and Rielly are big, but they're soft.
You need at least one power forward and one power defenseman.
Too many Hobbits not enough Orcs.