Thursday, June 14, 2007
Calgary Flames to Hire Hot-Headed Keenan?
by Jes
While I figured Jim Playfair was on the outs as the Calgary Flames head coach (a job at which he sucked with great proficiency), I never thought his replacement would be ... MIKE KEENAN (!WTF?!)
Well, Sutter is a bad-ass, whip-cracker type, so who better than Adolf Hitler look-a-like Mike Keenan to fill the coaching role?
Greg over at The NHL Fanhouse notes a couple of interesting facts ...
Keenan has long worn out his welcome in the NHL, yet teams continue giving him chances. The ultra-disciplinary asshole types just don't connect with today's spoiled superstars, so I can't see how Calgary is going to benefit greatly from this.
In the short term? Yeah, things might be peachey. Once any trouble starts? Keenan shows his true colours, startings treating his players like dogs, and things will go downhill for the Flamers.
As a Canucks fan, this pleases me greatly.
While I figured Jim Playfair was on the outs as the Calgary Flames head coach (a job at which he sucked with great proficiency), I never thought his replacement would be ... MIKE KEENAN (!WTF?!)
It looks like "Iron Mike" could be back in business behind the bench of an NHL team.
Sources tell TSN that Mike Keenan is on the verge of becoming the new head coach of the Calgary Flames.
While the Flames declined to comment when contacted by TSN today, sources confirm Keenan is currently in Calgary and if all goes as expected, the well-travelled NHL executive and coach could be announced as the head coach of the Flames as early as Thursday.
Well, Sutter is a bad-ass, whip-cracker type, so who better than Adolf Hitler look-a-like Mike Keenan to fill the coaching role?
Greg over at The NHL Fanhouse notes a couple of interesting facts ...
Although he's fifth on the all-time coaches' victories list, Keenan last took a team to the postseason in 1995-96 -- the same postseason in which Calgary's leading scorer last season, Jarome Iginla, made his NHL debut.
Speaking of Iginla, check out this 2000 article from Larry Wigge in The Sporting News in which Iggy claims that in order for him to be an elite star, he doesn't need a coach that bullies his players. Guess that theory might be put to the test pretty soon...
Keenan has long worn out his welcome in the NHL, yet teams continue giving him chances. The ultra-disciplinary asshole types just don't connect with today's spoiled superstars, so I can't see how Calgary is going to benefit greatly from this.
In the short term? Yeah, things might be peachey. Once any trouble starts? Keenan shows his true colours, startings treating his players like dogs, and things will go downhill for the Flamers.
As a Canucks fan, this pleases me greatly.
Labels: Coach firing, coach hiring, Flames, rumours
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1) Keenan is only the coach, right? So trades are still the perview of only Sutter.
2) So what are the over/under of:
a) How long until Keenan has a public argument with a star player
b) Tries to get into Kipper's head with a benching/pulling him after a bad goal
c) Is fired
2) So what are the over/under of:
a) How long until Keenan has a public argument with a star player
b) Tries to get into Kipper's head with a benching/pulling him after a bad goal
c) Is fired
True story: Keenan tried to talk himself into an interview with the expansion Atlanta Thrashers in 1999, but was shot down immediately as soon as it hit the media...
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: 10:15 am
: 10:15 am
2) So what are the over/under of:
a) How long until Keenan has a public argument with a star player
b) Tries to get into Kipper's head with a benching/pulling him after a bad goal
c) Is fired
a) 20 games. He'll chastize Huselius, but Huselius is too classy to fight back.
b) 3 games
c) 60 games
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a) How long until Keenan has a public argument with a star player
b) Tries to get into Kipper's head with a benching/pulling him after a bad goal
c) Is fired
a) 20 games. He'll chastize Huselius, but Huselius is too classy to fight back.
b) 3 games
c) 60 games
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