Hiring Mike Babcock was pretty huge for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Long gone are the days of Randy Carlyle, replaced with a new coach for this edition of the rebuild: one that's won a couple of Olympic Golds with Canada, and helped lead the Detroit Red Wings to the playoffs over and over and over again.
Of course, there are other factors to what makes a successful team than just the coach. For example: we can probably agree that Mike Babcock is rather good, but that hasn't stopped the Maple Leafs from being right at the bottom of the standings.