TORONTO — Sheldon Keefe thought he had a reasonably good understanding of his new world.
The proprietor/head coach of the Pembroke Lumber Kings — a junior-A hockey staff positioned about 150 kilometres northwest of Ottawa — was profitable title after title.
Keefe, a younger man attempting to push back the demons that got here to outline him as a young person earlier than a knee damage abruptly ended his on-ice aspirations as a professional, was the toast of the...