After an absolutely demoralizing beatdown at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins Saturday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs clearly needed to make a change.
Anyone whose watched the team this year for any amount of time can tell you that the team doesn’t play a style of game that is compatible with the roster.
They could also name you five or ten Babcockisms they feel are contributing to the team’s misfortune (sticking with things that clearly don’t work, playing the wrong players in the wrong roles, having defensive players on the ice late in games when down by a goal, etc.