Randy Carlyle is refreshed and ready for his next NHL opportunity behind the bench.
The veteran head coach was fired last January by the Toronto Maple Leafs and still awaits his next gig. Ron Wilson, his Leafs predecessor, hasn't gotten an NHL sniff since being fired by Toronto in March 2012. The Leafs job has a way of beating down some guys.
So does Carlyle worry the Toronto experience hurt his chances of getting another NHL job?
"But, who does the beating?," Carlyle said over the phone with a half-chuckle. "It’s all-in when you’re in Toronto, it can be a deathbed for some people but I don’t look at it like that at all.