Unless you’re holed up in a bunker, the Toronto Maple Leafs are inescapable in Toronto. Players, coaches and management can ignore the clips, stay off the Internet, turn off talk radio and you’re still going to get the pulse of the hockey fans in Toronto.

“It’s everywhere,” said one source who worked in Toronto. “You go to coffee shops, you hear it. It’s around you all the time.”

Right now, the demand from fans is clear: Randy Carlyle has to go. Not only are they clear, it’s a stance that is quite easy to defend. Aside from their place in the standings, late-season collapses under Carlyle and inability to carve an identity, players have performed better once leaving Toronto. It also doesn’t look particularly good that the Anaheim Ducks rocketed to the top of the division when Bruce Boudreau took over for Carlyle in Anaheim.

This is the time of year when the default solution is changing the coach. Too often, it’s the easy way out. So, on Wednesday, I made some calls to get the opinion of a few people around the league and some who have spent time closely with the team in Toronto to see how much blame falls on Carlyle’s shoulders.

Unsurprisingly, there’s blame to go around that extends beyond Carlyle.