Randy Carlyle is a man on an island.
The man who hired him, Brian Burke, is long gone. The management team that opted to retain has been cut to the bone, with senior figures Dave Poulin and Claude Loiselle ousted. General manager Dave Nonis may be next; even if he isn’t he’s clearly seen his power and status within the organization reduced in favour of team president Brendan Shanahan.
Further, Nonis is at best an uncertain ally. Even before the front-office purge, the Leafs had decided to take a knife to the coaching staff. Scott Gordon and Greg Cronin, who had spent most of the last three years with Carlyle, were both dismissed. So too was Dave Farrish, who has been coaching at Carlyle’s side for nearly a decade and had been a teammate of his back in junior.
It doesn’t take much reading between the lines to know that Carlyle is coaching on borrowed time. The Canadian Press (via TSN) reported that he got a two-year extension on the same day as his assistants were cut, but that extension won’t mean anything if Carlyle can’t get results from the team early. If he g ...
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What Randy Carlyle Must Do to Keep His Job with Toronto Maple Leafs
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