There are a handful of coaches across sports where I can seriously say, “Whatever they do, it will work.” In college football, it’s Nick Saban. In hockey, it’s Mike Babcock, who has run the machine that was the 2000’s Red Wings, Team Canada’s Death Star and most recently, he took over the floundering, yet still historical Toronto Maple Leafs. And when he was introduced as the new head man of the most famous team in hockey (for the most amount of money given to a coach) he said this:
There is pain coming.