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It’s All About Putting Fans In The Seats In Colorado
by Paul on 05/16/09 at 10:42 AM ET
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from Red Fisher of the Montreal Gazette,
Pierre Lacroix isn’t talking and neither is Patrick Roy, but does anybody really think the latter flew to Denver for something other than to discuss the head coaching job with the Avalanche?
So Tony Granato, whose team finished last in the Western Conference, has two years left on his contract. So what? So did a guy named Guy Carbonneau when he was booted out.
If Roy wants the job, he’s got it. And there’s no reason not to want it now that his sons no longer are with the Remparts and Roy has nothing else to prove at the junior coaching level.
It’s all about filling the seats in Denver.
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Fans of the other 29 NHL teams should be very excited about this news.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 05/16/09 at 10:53 AM ET
Wonder if he’ll get Gretzky pay ($8 million/year) just to put fans in the seats in The Ass Can.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 05/16/09 at 02:03 PM ET
It seems to me that most coaches who have nothing else to prove at the junior coaching level, would still have to prove something somewhere before being invited to make the step to the NHL level.
It might be because most of those junior coaches didn’t net 551 wins in the NHL, win 151 playoff games and bring two Stanley Cups to Colorado. Roy’s Hockey Hall of Fame career, four Stanley Cups and three Conn Smythe trophies puts him exactly one Conn Smythe ahead of Gretzky, who happens to have even less junior coaching experience than Roy. I’m not saying a great playing career qualifies one as a better coach, it just happens to help when it comes to getting an NHL job. C’est la vie.
Posted by mobilus on 05/16/09 at 02:25 PM ET
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It seems to me that most coaches who have nothing else to prove at the junior coaching level, would still have to prove something somewhere before being invited to make the step to the NHL level.
Posted by BobTheZee on 05/16/09 at 10:41 AM ET