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Assistant coach changes

Zee said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
CarltonTheBear said:
Toronto averaged 4:21 a game on the powerplay and the top unit played about 2:35 of that (59%).
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Meaning 41% of our time with an "advantage" was handed over to one of the most spectacularly ineffective units in the history of the world.
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Hiller was in charge of PP but was he also deciding ice time deployment on that PP or is that Babcock? Would seem to me a simple improvement is to have your first unit out there at least 1:30 of the 2 min PP
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Who cares as long as they get more ice time next season.
 
Ray Ferarro said the Leafs would score "one million goals" at the start of last season when the PP was going. Let's get back to that.
 
Fun thing I wouldn?t mind seeing for the PP next season:

Rielly
Marner-Nylander-Matthews
Tavares

With Marner setting up mostly behind the net (since his shot is the weakest). Play this unit for 1:30 and then Kadri + Kids gets the time killing minutes.
 
https://twitter.com/jtbourne/status/1131576692110188546

https://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/1131592063747842049
https://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/1131592227870973955
 
https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2019/05/23/dj-smith-hired-by-the-ottawa-senators-toronto-maple-leafs-add-paul-mcfarland-to-coaching-staff/

From the article above, a video on how McFarland had his powerplay group operating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-YeV9uClh8

Puck movement to open the Hoffman iso play
 
herman said:
https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2019/05/23/dj-smith-hired-by-the-ottawa-senators-toronto-maple-leafs-add-paul-mcfarland-to-coaching-staff/

From the article above, a video on how McFarland had his powerplay group operating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-YeV9uClh8

Puck movement to open the Hoffman iso play
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A truly groundbreaking approach:

McFarland and Boughner played their top unit of Aleksander Barkov, Keith Yandle, Mike Hoffman, Jonathan Huberdeau, and Evgenii Dadonov around 3:30 per game last season (i.e. a lot)
 
cabber24 said:
A truly groundbreaking approach:

McFarland and Boughner played their top unit of Aleksander Barkov, Keith Yandle, Mike Hoffman, Jonathan Huberdeau, and Evgenii Dadonov around 3:30 per game last season (i.e. a lot)
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They played that much because Florida had the 6th most amount of PP time last season (Leafs were 30th). Like I said in a previous post, Florida's top guys played about 66% of their powerplays. If you applied that percentage to the Leafs their top unit would have played a whopping 15-20 seconds or so more per game (spread over roughly 2-3 PPs per game). So the Florida guys played more but it wasn't by a significant margin.
 
https://theathletic.com/991877/2019/05/23/bourne-why-d-j-smiths-coaching-style-is-a-good-fit-for-the-senators/

With Smith though, that gregarious nature stops when the hockey gets serious. He very much would like his teams to play in his own playing image, which is hard, physical and mean. This is your periodic reminder that those things are still good in hockey and just because this is Smith?s preferred style, it won?t preclude him from advocating for other ways to play if the end result is successful.
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He's the one that wanted Polak back.
 
A rested Leafs 1U should be out there for a minimum of 70 seconds to start -- just to pick a number that is greater than 50% of the PP.  I think the number of goals scored will offset the number of shorties they give up from being out too long.

Also, Rielly can (to some extent) be our Hoffman.  I think he's got more to give in terms of one-timers.
 
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/31-thoughts-navigating-phil-kessel-trade-wont-easy-penguins/

12. DJ Smith first ended up on Ottawa?s radar in 2014-15 when one of their 2013 draftees, Tobias Lindberg, joined OHL Oshawa. They liked how Lindberg (later traded to Toronto in the Dion Phaneuf deal) developed under Smith. The Generals won the Memorial Cup with a group that was greater than the sum of its parts. In 2016, the Senators wanted to interview him for the previous opening, only to be denied by then-GM Lou Lamoriello. Smith was going to become the Islanders? coach last summer until Barry Trotz became available. With Pierre Groulx staying on as goalie coach, you can bet what you own that Ottawa will gauge Bob Boughner?s interest in joining the staff. Smith was Boughner?s assistant at OHL Windsor when the Spitfires won back-to-back Memorial Cups in 2009 and 2010. There will be competition, especially if San Jose decides it wants Boughner back, too.
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So close omg
 
Also from Friedman's 31 Thoughts: he mentions John Stevens (formerly with Philly/LA), Bob Boughner (SJ/FLA), and Jay McKee (OHL) as potential options to replace Smith as the PK/defence coach.

I've also seen Marc Crawford get mentioned as a potential replacement. He of course coached Matthews for a year in Switzerland, not that his primary responsibilities would overlap with Matthews' roles.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/mirtle/status/1131577763276697601

:o

That?s just an apparently.
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How would they think they were going to start with Smith when there was so much smoke that he was going to go elsewhere? Doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Bender said:
How would they think they were going to start with Smith when there was so much smoke that he was going to go elsewhere? Doesn't make much sense to me.
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Ottawa was really his only head coaching option, so if he didn't get that maybe he would have came back. With that said I still don't think it makes sense because why move on from Hiller and not Smith.
 
https://twitter.com/MapleLeafs/status/1145029268734468096

Coaching staff is complete. Hakstol's time as Philly's head coach isn't exactly super encouraging, although he was always handcuffed with Flyers goaltending. He has a very impressive resume as a head coach in the NCAA though so maybe he just jumped into that role too soon.
 
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