Ei ole mitään kuulunut, eikä siellä ole enää muita paikkojakaan jäljellä kuin Sharks. Itsekin olen miettinyt, kelpaisiko Woodcroftille apuvalmentajan paikka Devilsistä, Brunetten ja Greenin tyyliin. Vai haluaako Woodcroft jäädä odottelemaan kauden alkuun, että kuka sieltä ekana potkii valmentajaa pihalle.Onko Woodcroftin sijoituspaikan osalta mitään huhuja?
San Josella on saksalainen pääomistaja Hasso Plattner. Seurassa on muutenkin ollut normaalia enemmän saksalaisia pelaajia vuosien saatossa. Olisiko sieltä tullut mahtikäsky Grierelle, että saksalainen valmentaja olisi kiva yllätys.Toivottavasti valinta kohdistuu Sturmiin ja hänestä tulee 4. eurooppalainen päävalmentaja NHL:ssä. Ihan oikeita näyttöjäkin ehtinyt antamaan. Ja toki tässä hiljalleen toivoisi muutosta koko valmentarekrytointiin; eurooppalainen valmennusosaaminen toisi lisää väriä ja mielenkiintoa koko liigaan.
In his first NHL training camp, Babcock sidelined three well-liked veterans: Jason York, Denny Lambert and German Titov. Lambert and York said they arrived at the Ducks training camp to find their names had been removed from their stalls and gear cleared out. Babcock told them they could not be around the team at all, they said. The players practiced alone on empty ice in the afternoon.
At the time, Lambert’s 2-year-old son was in the hospital with a broken femur; he said he wouldn’t have left his family in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, if the Ducks had told him he was unwanted. Lambert said he asked Babcock why he’d been removed. Was it his performance on the ice? An issue in the locker room? Babcock told Lambert there was nothing he could do to change his mind.
Franzen said that starting in 2011, he became terrified of being at the rink as “verbal attacks” on him and others continued. Chris Chelios, a Hall of Fame defenseman who played for Babcock in Detroit, was appalled by how Babcock treated Franzen.
“Literally, he was calling him into his office once a week to call him a fat pig and say that your teammates hate you and why don’t you just quit,” Chelios told the “Spittin’ Chiclets” podcast, which also first revealed the photo-sharing allegations in Columbus.
After the first period of Marner’s first preseason game, Babcock approached him in the tunnel and abruptly told him he was being sent back to junior — rather than sharing the news in a private meeting. Babcock’s approach, relaying the disappointing news after a single period, was viewed by some in the organization as unprofessional and callous.
Ei tuossa ihan kaikkea ole, mutta ei kyllä luo kuvaa Mike Babcockista millään tavalla hyvänä ihmisenä.“I have no idea who you are,” Corrado remembers Babcock telling him when they first met. He told Corrado to meet him at his office at the Leafs training facility the next day at 8 a.m. Corrado arrived early and knocked on Babcock’s door, but the coach told him he didn’t have time to see him. Corrado waited for an hour and a half, but Babcock never made time for him.
Bingo!Kun vanhoista ja tutuista valkkunimistä on ollu puhe niin voisko Krakenin seuraava valkku voi olla niiden farmiseuran valmentaja Dan Bylsma.
Keklun muuten ryhdikkääseen uraan saatiin kyllä aikamoinen lovi tuon Babcock-sekoilun myötä.