Sheldon Keefe | End of Season Media Availability | May 6, 2024

i know he hasn't been the best coach, but he's an amazing person and I'll miss him

He’s a good person. Best regular season record for a coach that’s been apart of 300+ games in NHL history. 8th worst record of NHL history for coaches that were apart of 35+ playoff games. This team needs a shakeup and he’s had 5 years to do more than one round win. See ya Sheldon, good luck in Pittsburgh with Dubas. (Total assumption lol)

You played Jarnkrok over Domi on PP1 in Game 1. You started Samsonov. You didn’t make the necessary adjustments to the Powerplay. What were you thinking.

I’m not a big fan of his, but man this guy is a human being and you can tell he really cared. He invested too much in Marner. Year after year, Marner was leaned upon and he failed year after year. This team desperately needs a new look, you can’t bring back Marner. Tavares just can’t play anymore, which is sad because he’s only 33. They need a new voice. They can’t run this back. You still have Matthews and Nylander, time is not their friend. If you 16 and 91 money, this team should figure out a way to contend. Keefe looks heartbroken and rightfully so. But he had his chance. You need to give this team a real chance to win we know 1000%, They can’t do it with 16 and 91.

Say what you want, but I'm going to miss this guy. The opening was heartbreaking.

We could see Craig Berube as the new Leafs head coach.

At least he’s being honest

You had YEARS Keefe....YEARS.

Any coach that can say " The PP looks fine. Just have to stay with it." With a 1 in 12 record shouldn't be an NHL coach. Hell, he better off as Atom coach. Not even at the level to coach Peewee with that kinda comment. Him and Shanahan (8 year plan is up) Must Go!!

I personally don't understand the commentary that Keefe isn't a good coach. As someone who has been a player, coach, general manager, scout and administrator at a very competitive level (not professionally) I can appreciate how good of a person and a coach he has been looking from the outside. Obviously I am not privy to the experience shared by management and the players on the inside but from my vantage point he has been an excellent coach. Its a results oriented bysuiness and he has been tremendously successful in the regular season but not so in the playoffs. That isn't necessarily his fault. He was given a flawed roster that is constructed in such a way that its impossible to have a complete roster with the depth and pieces necessary to be successful in the post season. He can thank his good friend Dubas for filling his pockets with those bricks as he tried to swim the English channel which is the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I would love to see what Keefe could do with a roster constructed with half the salary cap not being distributed to 4 players. What other team has been successful with this approach? As a 71 year old fan of this team my entire life it is frustrating to say the least. Now I learn this am they have received this good man from his duties. In my opinion there is another who should have been fired first. But as we all know the boss will never fire himself! Long live the Shambleplan

Whatever happens, I wish Keefer well. Heck of a coach.

Just outta curiosity, if you are a leafs fan, now that you guys are out, who are you supporting between Nucks and Oilers? Or none?

It's interesting to hear him talk about how they struggle to beat structure, especially in the playoffs. I find that they often look too slow out there, speed helps break down structure and they don't have it. Among the highest paid players, Marner and Tavares in particular like to play a slow, plodding game offensively. They end up getting stuck to the outside because they play too slow and become easy to track. It's difficult to break a teams structure down without a lot of speed or a lot of hard cycling. This team does neither. They also can't capitalize on odd-man rushes because of this issue, you don't see nearly as many 3 on 2's and 2 on 1's for the Leafs as you do for other teams. I think their priority offensively for the off-season needs to be to get faster up front to be able to play with more tempo. Some of that comes from getting better puck movers on the back end as well.

Unfortunately for him he didnt have this team with the Domis, Berts, Edmunson, McMann, Benoit a couple years ago.

SAMMY CANT CATCH A PAPER BAG TRADE HIM NOW , KEEFE YOUR FIRED !!!

Keefe does what he can with what he got the team definitely need better goal tending.

Keefe is an unbelievable coach & human being...he is the reason the leafs make the playoffs every year! Please keep him as head coach! 🙏

This guy didn't score 198 goals in Pee-wee and it shows

He says he didn’t do exit interviews with the players, I think he expects to be fired

leaf fans are going to buy tickets. there's no need for change. i will never see a game because it costs so much to attend. at least i'm not getting robbed right. If the fans would just show some backbone maybe we will get a team with one. think about it. Who do you think pays for the team?