There is one un-sourced thing in your entire response that even comes close to addressing what I said. And you can google several quotes about him getting too soft in Calgary for your evidence, as well as the link I provided about players hoisting him in the air and the celebration in Russia.
Mike Keenan has coached in 11 seasons since his departure from the Rangers. He has 1 playoff series victory in that span. 7 times his teams have missed the playoffs. He was fired/resigned in 3 of those 7 years at some point.
Wait...you are telling me that I have un-sourced comments yet you provide un-sourced comments on your own telling me to do a Google search? OK ..well you do a google search on this "Mike Keenan jerk". There will be a million hits from message boards, newspapers, player interviews that will go in depth about what kind of coach and person he was.\
You can do a search on HFboards too. There are several posts blasting Keenan with tons of links within them. Vancouver and St Louis fans seem none too happy with Iron Mike. I can't imagine Panthers fans have any love for him either.
I think its a well established fact that Keenan is a jerk and has long been an ineffective coach at the NHL level.
I think you will be hard pressed to find anyone who would support bringing this guy along.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1145161&highlight=keenan
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1551365&highlight=keenan
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=432720&highlight=keenan
And remember...in 1987 was the coach for Team Canada who beat the Russians in that epic Canada Cup series.
Keenan put Doug Frikin Crossman on that team and left out Scott Stevens. Reason? Keenan was the coach of the Flyers and had no love for Stevens. He was also the coach of the Flyers and Crossman was on his team.
Crossman was simply not that good of a player but Keenan used his position to play mind games with Stevens. (LINKAGE):
Stevens certainly had the incentive to stick it to the Flyers, because it was Flyers coach Mike Keenan who made Stevens one of the two final cuts (Dave Poulin was the other) from Team Canada in last summer's Canada Cup series.
And it was Keenan who passed over Stevens when he selected the Wales Conference all-star team in February.
After he was cut from the Canada Cup team, Stevens steamed and remarked that the only chance he would ever have to play in international competition would be if he became a U.S. citizen.
Stevens has since changed his stance. He will, he said, remain a Canadian citizen. Although he refuses to understand how Keenan decided on Doug Crossman instead for Team Canada, he has accepted it.
And if he is gloating now, he's keeping it to himself.
"Let's just say that beating the Flyers had special meaning for me," Stevens said.
Murray is familiar with the anger Stevens felt after being cut from Team Canada.
"I've talked to Scott about it fairly often," Murray said. "He was so disappointed and frustrated by it that it affected his play in October.
"But we discussed why it happened, and he came to recognize that Crossman was chosen because his coach was making the decisions.
"After all, Scott wants some recognition, and he deserves it. This has been his best season in every way. Since about the 10th game of the season, he's been strong all the way through. He's getting more minutes than Rod Langway did when Langway won two Norris Trophies with us."
http://articles.philly.com/1988-04-20/sports/26253541_1_washington-coach-bryan-murray-dave-poulin-capital-centre
He is a petty man at best. Here is a tasty bit:
Grant Ledyard left the team to be with his wife, who was awaiting some distressing medical news (cancer). Keenan cleaned out Ledyard's stall and told the rest of the players that Ledyard had quit on them.
You want this guy as the coach???
Cassidy got lambasted and lost the locker room when he made a comment regarding Witt (who's wife was ill with something not as serious as Cancer)
You can't make this stuff up:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=de705615-ba83-4a99-b8ad-d71cdd7f560d&k=25155
Keenan has a history -- more history -- of feuding with his most influential players. In St. Louis, that was Brett Hull. Then came Linden. Then, last stop in Florida, Keenan berated Luongo on a team flight, waking several Panther players by loudly criticizing the goalie for refusing a long-term contract. Luongo, who last season confirmed the incident, characterized the confrontation as "just another nail in the coffin."
