The Toronto Maple Leafs fired head coach Randy Carlyle on Tuesday, according to the team's official website, and already the focus is shifting to the question of who should take over the job in the long term. The Leafs haven't named a long-term replacement yet, though the expectation is that assistant coach Peter Horachek will handle the job in the interim, as he did last season for the Florida Panthers.
Who will eventually end up with the top job? That's anyone's guess, and it's a guessing game made more difficult by the fact that nobody knows what this summer's coaching market is going to look like. The Leafs have the money and the profile to compete for the best available candidate when the time comes, and there is no shortage of possibilities.
Read on for our ranking of some of the obvious names.
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Randy Carlyle Fired: Ranking Best Candidates for Toronto Maple Leafs’ Next Coach
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