TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs hired Craig Berube as their coach on Friday, bringing in someone with Stanley Cup-winning experience to try to help the storied franchise end the longest championship drought in the NHL. Toronto President Brendan Shanahan and general manager Brad Treliving moved quickly to hire Berube as the replacement for Sheldon Keefe, who was fired after …
Ahead of the most important game of Sheldon Keefe’s tenure as Maple Leafs head coach, assistant coach Paul MacLean gave Keefe some advice. “You don’t hire somebody like Greg Harden,” Keefe said. “If the person who he’s engaged with genuinely wants to be better, and have the organization be better, that’s the only reason I can see Greg coming out …
