Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe says he hopes to have to make the difficult postseason decision between Freddy Andersen and Jack Campbell when the time comes, because it just shows how great their goaltending depth has improved.
Sheldon Keefe coached his 100th regular-season game behind the Maple Leafs bench on Thursday night. The team is 61-28-11 since Keefe replaced Mike Babcock on Nov. 20, 2019.
A handful of days ago the Toronto Maple Leafs lost a game to a Vancouver Canucks team in its first game back from what was essentially team-wide COVID, a story that’s been told numerous times.
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ head coach may have grown up in the Greater Toronto Area, but Sheldon Keefe was not a fan of the blue and white. “I kind of bounced around with my favourite players because I was a Mario Lemieux fan – I was a Penguins fan for a long period of time.
During a question-and-answer session with Aeroplan members on Sunday, Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe heaped praise on Hayley Wickenheiser, who serves as the team’s assistant director, player development.
Toronto Maple Leafs bench boss Sheldon Keefe’s ability to communicate has been his greatest strength as the team approaches the midway point of the season.
The coach, the captain, and the superstar all had something to say about hockey’s loss before they fielded questions about their own.
Ever since he was introduced as the next Maple Leafs head coach in November 2019, Sheldon Keefe has sought to improve his club’s defensive play in all three zones, while keeping pace with the organization’s goal to control the puck as much as possible.
There is very little of Pat Burns in Sheldon Keefe.
He doesn’t bark much, he doesn’t make the nightly news very often, he doesn’t have the kind of cop-like presence and arrogance that commands both fear and respect. He doesn’t have anything like that movie-character “Get-out-of-my-way” walk that Burns had.
New assistant coach Manny Malhotra is making an immediate impact on the team’s power play.
Last week we took a look at the 10 NHL captains with Ontario Hockey League origins. This week, we turn our attention behind the bench where eleven NHL coaches have OHL roots.
PEMBROKE, ONT. — Geoff Patterson has done just about everything for the Pembroke Lumber Kings at one point or another.
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