What is Craig Berube's fate with the Maple Leafs?

Craig Berube’s seat was already hot, but as we approach the last couple of weeks in the NHL season, it’s probably begun to feel absolutely scorching. The Toronto Maple Leafs head coach has led his team to a disappointing 77 points through 75 games, good for second-to-last place in the Atlantic Division and, almost certainly, the Leafs’ first season to fall short of the playoffs since 2016.

His team’s place in the standings would be reason enough for Berube to feel less than secure in his job, but after watching Brad Treliving, the general manager that brought him to Toronto, get ousted on Monday, he’s probably wondering how long until he’s next to be shown the door. Berube, who won the Stanley Cup with the St. Louis Blues in 2019, was hired to get the Leafs over the hump in the postseason. In his two seasons so far, he presided over Toronto’s Game 7 collapse against the Florida Panthers in last year’s second round of the playoffs, and this year’s unmitigated failure.

On Tuesday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton were joined by "The Sheet‘s" Jeff Marek to discuss Berube’s future with the Leafs.

Jeff Marek: I don’t know what the fate of Craig Berube is going to be here. I know it’s very much a question that’s out there. I think a lot of it will depend on what the vision for this team is going to be. Here’s the thing that I always like to remind people about, and that is just because one person has won a Stanley Cup, that doesn’t mean they can do it again as a head coach. As a matter of fact, you have history against you. You have Tommy Gorman, Dick Irvin and Scotty Bowman, those are the only three coaches to ever win Stanley Cups with two different teams. Scotty did it with three. This league has been in existence since 1917, so the idea that this coach has won a Stanley Cup before, he knows how to do it and he can do it here, you might be right eventually, but you have the entire weight of history saying that’s not true because there’s only been three.

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Tuesday’s episode here…