JackSlater
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- Apr 27, 2010
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I always enjoy the story of Pierre when he was an assistant with Pittsburgh and ripping into the team. Lemieux comes in from an intermission smoke and tells Pierre to f*** off and kicks him out of the dressing room. Don't care if the story is true or not, it's true to me.can't believe i forgot about the whalers naming pierre mcgquire HC prior to the 93-94 season. zero HC experience at any level and he was completely out of his depth
his own players had zero respect for him and it showed in the standings
Dallas Eakins getting hired was a strange/funny one to me. My understanding is that he was just filling out the ranks and Edmonton was rightly after an experienced coach. Eakins goes in, spouts some new age coaching bullshit, and his career as a terrible NHL head coach is born. Montreal hiring Geoffrion heading into the 1980 season was weird too. Nothing about Geoffrion indicated that he was a good coach or even particularly cut out to be a coach in terms of demeanour. Yet he was hired. Montreal had two Stanley Cup winning coaches in the organization just months prior and had multiple players on the team who would go on to coach Stanley Cup winners.
I was not surprised when he was hired to the NHL based on the groundwork being laid before, but I was very shocked when I first heard that Sheldon Keefe of all people was paid to coach a professional hockey team in the AHL.