User Note: This page is updated as of Tuesday, June 25, 2024. After Wes Unseld Jr. was dismissed from his coaching duties midway through the season, the Washington Wizards asked (one of Unseld’s assistants) Brian Keefe to fill in as the interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Apparently, they were so happy…
It’s challenging to fully assess what kind of coach Sheldon Keefe could have been had he not followed Mike Babcock. When Keefe took over, his primary goal was to be the antithesis of Babcock, the taskmaster whose forceful will had alienated the team. The players had stopped responding to Babcock, so Keefe had to be…
After Saturday’s 4-0 Toronto Maple Leafs win over the Nashville Predators, Head Coach Sheldon Keefe was asked about the team and how they played in front of Ilya Samsonov. Quoting verbatim, Keefe said: “Ilya Samsonov’s 18-save shutout: If you could draw it up as a perfect game for him, that would probably be it. He…
