François Allaire perhaps the best goaltending coach on the planet has worked with some great goalies among them Patrick Roy, Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Ilya Bryzgalov and Jonas Hiller. But his reputation has taken a hit since coming to Toronto and having to work with Vesa Toskala, Jonas Gustavsson, Joey McDonald, a past-his-prime Giguère, James Reimer, Ben Scrivens and Jussi Rynnas.
His solution was to quit. Something Elliotte Freidman had predicted would happen back in April. Once again Friedman's sources have been accurate. Allaire is not accepting all the blame for the deplorable shape of the Leafs' goaltending. On the contrary, he is blaming the other coaches on the team and suggests that the coaching staff is dysfunctional.
Now it shouldn't come as a surprise that there is discourse in the Maple Leafs dressing room. There has been plenty of that over the past 45 years. Is that the case here because he would have been working with Randy Carlyle this season who he worked with in Anaheim? Or this just sour grapes from someone trying to find a scapegoat? I have this sinking feeling that with or without a lockout the Brian Burke era will spiral wildly to an end this season. Perhaps this is the first guy to jump ship. At least he didn't blame his problems on the media.
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