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Columnist Becomes A Coach
by Paul on 02/09/09 at 11:39 AM ET
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from Tom Sorensen of the Charlotte Observer,
Head coach Derek Wilkinson, Mann and I meet in the coaches’ office three hours before the game to talk strategy. Wilkinson offered me a one-game gig as an assistant. I get to see the game from his perspective, and the Checkers get publicity.
In the office is a desk, two laptops, a sofa and a cooler with one Coke and at least 15 cans of Bud Light.
At 2:30, we walk down the hall to the locker room to address the players. Mann stands in front of a dry-erase board and talks about inside hockey stuff such as PKs, the F3 pushing to the neutral zone, CFLs and PFKLs. As we leave, a player yells, “Maybe coach Tom would like to put something on the board.”
There’s a tradition. Somebody will write on the board the amount of money he or she will donate to the team’s fines/party fund if the team wins. I write $20, which makes me the team’s new most popular coach.
read on and thanks to a KK reader for the pointer…
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Somebody want to shine some light on “PFKL”? I work in hockey and I’ve got no idea.
...and I’m assuming CFL is a center ice faceoff loss, but I’m not sure why it’d be written on a dry erase board.
Posted by PRC. on 02/09/09 at 06:50 PM ET
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A very fortunate opportunity he was given. Always a good thing to see hockey thinking outside the box to give fans interesting and new perspectives and potential insights.
It’s well known that many fans wish they could be in the action themselves, and anything that can bring them a little closer to what otherwise remains a dream is a positive for both the media and the League undertaking the new opportunity.
Posted by SENShobo from Waterloo, ON on 02/09/09 at 01:08 PM ET