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Started by TheNorm, May 20, 2015, 07:07:31 PM

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...as Toronto decides to throw $50million over 8 years (much of it front loaded) at former Red Wings coach Mike Babcock.

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/12920242/toronto-maple-leafs-hire-mike-babcock-head-coach

It's been a great ten seasons for him as coach of the Winged Wheel, with one Stanley Cup and the continuation of Detroit's 24 season streak of making the postseason. Best of luck to him, because he'll need it for that gong show of a team. I seriously don't blame him for leaving-he's the best coach in the NHL but let's face it: Detroit was in the business of winning before he got here, and the organization is still in good hands with Jeff Blashill (coach of the AHL's Grand Rapids Griffins, the Wings minor league farm club) who is in all likelihood the guy who will land the job as Wings coach. A new voice might be needed in the locker room too. Babcock's setting his family up for life, and there's probably no greater test than trying to rescue a storied team that is pretty much a joke now. Some call it ego, but I don't know many people that are good at what they do and would turn down 3x what your current employer is paying to go there and try to make it good there too.
"But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity." - Martin Luther King, Jr

Crewe

I think it was a good move, for him and Toronto. He wanted a challenge, now he has one.
On a side note, i wish i knew what it was like to be set for life.
I cannot fathom that kind of money