Firing Craig Berube was easy. Now the Maple Leafs need bigger swings to fix the mess

It was 12 years ago, almost to the day, that then-Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan renewed his embattled head coach’s contract after a disastrous season.Randy Carlyle was gifted a two-year extension to his deal following an ugly 84-point campaign, as the Leafs new-look front office wanted time to evaluate what they had. Less than eight months later, they knew: Carlyle was fired, and Toronto (again) cratered into the league’s basement, as the rebuild that became this franchise’s Core Four era truly began.Advertisement