Mike Babcock is just the highest profile in a long line of teams wanting former Red Wings bench bosses.
If there's one thing that the Mike Babcock hire to the Toronto Maple Leafs showed, it's this: NHL teams want Detroit Red Wings coaches. Babcock is just another in a line of people who have been behind the Detroit bench over the last decade that found themselves in NHL head coaching positions after their tenure in Detroit.
Todd McLellan was first brought to Detroit by Babcock when the latter first took the head coaching job for the Red Wings.