Toronto Maple Leafs hire one of the dirtiest players of the modern era to coach their affiliate

Yesterday the Leafs announced they'd hired former NHL pest, Matt Cooke. Cooke played more than 1000 NHL games from 1998 to 2015. Always known as a pest, Cooke walked the line pretty well his first nine seasons in the league, only being suspended once. Howeer, between January of 2009 and March of 2011, he received four suspensions. Many claim that Cooke is the person that ended the career of Boston's Marc Savard. Now, Cooke has been named head coach of the ECHL's Newfoundland Growlers, an affiliate of the Toronto Marlies and Maple Leafs.

There seem to be very few positive reactions to the Growlers' announcement. Here's a sampling.

Cooke takes over an ECHL team that has had a lot of success over the last two seasons, which led to the vacant coaching positions. The previous head coach, Eric Wellwood, was promoted to assistant coach with the Marlies in the AHL this summer.