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Brian Kilrea Coaches His Last Regular Seaso Game
by Paul on 03/15/09 at 08:50 PM ET
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from Chris Yzerman of the Ottawa Citizen via the National Post,
Brian Kilrea hasn’t been wrong about too many things when it comes to preparing for a hockey game. Otherwise he wouldn’t have lasted 32 seasons as coach of the Ottawa 67’s.
He was mistaken about one thing Sunday, however, when he claimed it wouldn’t be too tough to step behind the bench for the final time in an Ontario Hockey League regular-season game when the 67’s met the Kingston Frontenacs at the Ottawa Civic Centre.
With an above-capacity crowd of 10,228 in attendance and surrounded by family, friends and former players - all there to pay tribute to the retiring coach - the familiar scowl that got Kilrea through many of his previous 2,155 outings cracked when he stepped behind the microphone during an almost 40-minute pre-game ceremony.
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