Despite a number of calls for his head, Randy Carlyle has his intact and will be the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2014-15.
Love it or hate it, Leafs fans, Carlyle's your man behind the bench. With the wagon hitched firmly to the Sudbury, Ontario, native, it has quickly become a matter of horses.
Randy Carlyle's preferred style of play has never been a wide-open, run-and-gun transition game where teams trade chances at both ends. While that hasn't been his style, that's what his players have delivered over the past two years in Toronto.
With his recent two-year extension, there is a clear message that this is Carlyle's team. The Maple Leafs also added they would be hiring new assistant coaches with the announcement by TSN that Carlyle would be retained, but not the rest of the coaching staff.
There is no question that Carlyle can be successful at the NHL level. He won a Stanley Cup with the Anaheim Ducks and led a flawed Toronto club to the playoffs in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season.
His goaltending, at least in terms of a starter, is set. Jonatha ...
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