A News Pundit Chases Leafs Coach For Redecorating

((HT: The Score via Sun News Network))

JT Bourne went after a news pundit who really had no business talking about the topic he talked about the other day...

And it's another reason as to why news needs to be news and sports stays with sports...unless you want to open yourself up to pot shots...

The HQ doesn't talk politics, for the most part, and we certainly don't talk about food (or something like that)...

David Menzies, the HQ will admit, has just as much a right to opine on what he wants to, even it's a poorly-found opinion- much like JT found when Menzies said in the Huffington Post that Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke needed to stop hiding behind the gay flag when it comes to bullying and have it only apply there and nowhere else...

No lie... he actually said that...

But in a hockey-crazed town like Toronto where the Leafs are life and life is the Leafs, everyone has their chance to call their shot...

And Menzies tried...

Boy, did he try... from left field... talking about how Carlyle's desire to change things up made him a bad coach...
Maybe if Ty Pennington or Paige Davis had made the accusation, it would have made more sense...

There... the Leafs problems have been solved...

Ron Wilson Fired As Maple Leafs Coach

And Randy Carlyle is, now, the new man in charge...

The Leafs were in a tailspin-and-a-half... only having one win in their last 11 games and currently sit in 12th place in the Eastern Conference.

"This was not an easy decision for me to make," general manager Brian Burke said in a statement. "I want to thank Ron for all of his hard work and dedication to our organization over the past four seasons."

Here's coverage from our friends at Sportsnet Ontario with FOSG Jeff Marek and Gord Stellick in HockeyCentral...


Now, the Leafs can take this in one of two directions: follow Carlyle the same way the St. Louis Blues followed Ken Hitchcock or, tank again...

The HQ is thinking Choice B)