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Melrose Speaks Out On Firing
by Paul on 11/15/08 at 09:15 PM ET
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from CBC,
“When people are staying away from you, and you see people talking together that don’t usually talk [then you know],” Melrose told Hockey Night In Canada. “I’ve been around a long time and have been through this before so I wasn’t caught by surprise by this."…
Melrose believes some disgruntled players who were wary of his no-nonsense approach went to ownership and complained about his coaching style.
Melrose also criticized the club’s skaters for not supporting goaltender Olaf Kolzig offensively in his return to Washington, where he played for more than 15 years. The Lightning scored just twice in the Monday loss.
“I think the players didn’t want to play for me,” he said.” You don’t have to be Kreskin to figure that out. I demand players play hard and play with passion and courage.
more and you can watch the interview Ron MacLean did with Melrose earlier this evening.
added 9:25pm, The video can also be viewed below…
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I have to agree with Melrose. Tampa couldn’t score. They were a team that wasn’t supposed to be able to play defense. Their defense was actually good. 4-5-3 with this team is not bad. I see that as decent coaching. Maybe the players hated him but the fact is the million dollar stars like Lecavallier and St Louis should be scoring no matter what the coach says..Stamkos is all hype and not ready for the NHL. If he was Russian nobody would have said two words about him. Of course he probably would have 20 goals by now, too.....Also trading Boyle was total stupidity. If you have a legit #1 Dman like him you DON’T trade him! Plus signing all those 40 year old re-treads was asinine. Bad management.
Posted by kevin from boston on 11/17/08 at 10:39 AM ET