However, failing to promote a creative, DARING offensive attack might be popular (and easy) among the coaching clique, but it draws everyone toward the average, and Babcock has been anything but average. Better to play for 2-1 wins – or even low-scoring losses, because as everyone knows, “defense wins games.” The belief is: If you hold the goals-against down, you have a better chance of success, and you as a coach will be renowned for your defensive systems.
Run-and-gun hockey might be fun for fans and players, but it’s way outside the norm because it appears that coaches are not in charge. But then the reality of five goals-against – and the current coaching “wisdom”– set in, and he finished, “But it’s dumb.” () Addressing the press after the high-scoring Toronto Maple Leafs win over the New York Rangers to open the season, Leafs head coach Mike Babcock wore a grin as wide as any kid would after scoring a bunch of goals.
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