Report: Maple Leafs’ Peter Horachek won’t be back as coach, other major changes coming
9 years ago
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Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Peter Horachek didn’t win many games as the club’s interim bench boss, but he did accomplish something long believed to be impossible: he made Leafs fans miss Randy Carlyle.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody Horachek will reportedly not be brought back as the Maple Leafs’ coach, according to Sportsnet’s Damien Cox. The changes may not stop there though, as the future of Maple Leafs general manager Dave Nonis remains in significant doubt.
During a ‘Headlines’ segment during Hockey Night in Canada’s broadcast of the Maple Leafs’ 82nd game on Saturday night, Cox elaborated on what comes next for the Maple Leafs:
This long Maple Leafs season is (over) and all signs point to Monday being the day when a lot of major announcements are made involving the Leafs.We know and everybody knows I think, including Peter Horachek, that he will not return as the Maple Leafs coach, but I think the changes are going to include a lot of other areas. It’s not clear whether Dave Nonis is back, he’s still meeting with Brendan Shanahan in fact the management team is hunkering down this weekend to make their final decisions.
So the final decision on Nonis’ future with the club has yet to be made in Cox’s formulation, though signs are increasingly pointing to the likelihood that Nonis has watched his last game from the general manager’s suite. One of those signs? A list of potential managerial targets who on the Maple Leafs radar:
Or how about the report that the question of Mark Hunter or Kyle Dubas taking over for Nonis has been both discussed and discarded?
If you’re looking for smoke signals that hint at the direction the Maple Leafs front office will chart going forward, those are significant ones.
Like winter comes to Westeros, change is coming to Toronto.
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