Remember when Mike Babcock was fired and the world decided he was a black-hat villain who was, therefore, always wrong? Nature abhors a vacuum, so the natural result was that Sheldon Keefe became the white-hat hero, here to save the day, and everything he did was right.
That was then, and this is the spring of our discontent. The vacancy now is for a villain, and Keefe is starting to look like the man whose hat is turning black.
My stated position is that coaches don’t affect things as much as fans want to believe. They don’t make players win, they aren’t at fault for losses, and they are neither geniuses nor people who just send the next line over the boards.