And let's be clear - in defending Travis Green, Darren Dreger is carrying water for his former TSN buddy Dave Poulin. He does Poulin a solid by pushing back on the negative talk on Green, and in exchange Poulin feeds him some inside gossip occasionally from around the league. That's how these relationships work.
I can still remember Dreger assuring all of us that there was "strong interest" in Chris Neil as a UFA in late June of the year when Neiler had to retire. It was painfully obvious that Dreger was chumming the waters for Neiler's agent, trying to prompt some interest from around the league. In exchange, the agent feeds Dreger inside dirt once in a while.
I feel like Charlie Brown after trying to kick the football from Lucy for the umpteenth time. I believed in this new ownership and management group and really thought that they were going to deliver change. I actually got taken in a bit by the "Best in Class" talk. And now we get....Travis Green, the kind of coach you get when you are either on a budget, no one wants to come to your city, or both. It's just so disheartening...