{"id":28244,"date":"2015-01-09T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/leafs-to-stick-with-horachek-for-remainder-of-season\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T13:25:00","slug":"leafs-to-stick-with-horachek-for-remainder-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/leafs-to-stick-with-horachek-for-remainder-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafs to stick with Horachek for remainder of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Maple Leafs will be sticking with interim head coach Peter Horachek through the end of the current season before naming a new bench boss.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the word from Leafs team president Brendan Shanahan at a Friday press conference, which addressed several issues at the midway point of the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any time there is a coaching change there is an opportunity for players to look at themselves as well,&#8221; said Shanahan. &#8220;Every team has to deal with their own bits of adversity &#8230; We&#8217;re not the only team trying to find consistency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Horachek, who worked the final 66 games for the fired Kevin Dineen in Florida last year, began his Toronto tenure with a 6-2 home loss to the Washington Capitals on Wednesday. The Leafs fired Randy Carlyle on Tuesday despite a 21-16-3 record.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan said Horachek will be one of the candidates considered for the full- time position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Maple Leafs will be sticking with interim head coach Peter Horachek through the end of the current season before naming a new bench boss. That&#8217;s the word from Leafs team president Brendan Shanahan at a Friday press conference, which addressed several issues at the midway point of the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}