The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that Craig Berube has been hired as the hockey club’s head coach. Berube, 58, becomes the 32nd head coach in Maple Leafs history. He joins Toronto after six seasons as head coach of the St. Louis Blues, where he compiled a regular season record of 206-132-44 (.597) while leading the Blues to the franchise’s first Stanley Cup championship in 2019. Berube was named a finalist for the 2019 Jack Adams Award. Berube also served as head coach of the...
The first move in what's sure to be a busy offseason for the Maple Leafs
The NHL delivered a 12-year high for a first-round matchup on Saturday. The Boston Bruins’ 2-1 overtime win in Game 7 over the Toronto Maple Leafs averaged 3.24 million viewers on ABC. Per Sports Media Watch, that’s a 12-year high for a first-round matchup. Back in 2012, the Bruins’ 4-3 overtime loss to the Washington
“I’m excited to see where he goes creatively with that but right now it’s just, let’s finish strong; let’s do the best we can.”
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Craig Berube was hired as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday. The 58-year-old replaces Sheldon Keefe, who was fired on May 9. Berube had served as an analyst with Turner Sports since being fired by the St. Louis Blues on Dec. 12. "We're not waiting," Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving said May 10. "We're going to be thorough. This isn't something that's going to be hastily done, but we certainly know that there's some quality candidates out there. We want to get them as fast as...
If anything, Craig Berube ushers in a wave of much-needed hope to a Maple Leafs team whose disappointments are growing stale. He commands respect in any room he enters, and that includes the cushy Maple Leafs quarters run by young multimillionaires still hoping to get over the hump.
The actor is playing the writer in a dramatic reading of a one-act play that carries a special meaning for those involvedWhen Matthew Rhys first took his partner Keri Russell to west Wales, he insisted on visiting Laugharne to show her a writing shed used by Dylan Thomas. They also stopped at the poet’s favourite pub. She reminded him of these facts recently. “Oh my God,” he says. “I really am a cliche.”The actors, who starred in the TV drama The Americans, will perform together again on Tuesday...
Sheldon Keefe was fired as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday. No replacement was named. The Maple Leafs lost the Eastern Conference First Round in seven games to the Boston Bruins and have advanced beyond the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs once (2023) since 2004. They went 46-26-10 in the regular season to finish third in the Atlantic Division with 102 points. “Today’s decision was difficult," Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving said. "Sheldon is an excellent coach...
It took eight disappointing years, but the finally did it. After back-to-back 2-1 wins in Games 5 and 6, they achieved the platonic ideal of playoff hockey they’ve desperately longed for in the Auston Matthews-Mitch Marner era. They won The Right Way. The Leafs played two “perfect” games. They won a close, tight-checking, defensive, grind-it-out slog-fest — the type of victory many previous Stanley Cup champions had to pull out of their hat at least once or twice en route to glory. They doubled...
Gustav Forsling scored the tiebreaking goal on a rebound with 1:33 left, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 22 shots for the Florida Panthers to beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Friday night and win their second-round playoff series in six games. The Panthers advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, where they
The Stars and the Avalanche second-round series, very briefly, came to an