Strickland Article

[Herr Hockey 0]

This article is loaded. Bowman to the Blackhawks!??! Says Quenville was offered the assistant coach job and declined.

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=15862

[zata40 3]

???? WHAT ????

If this is true, i'd go bonkers.

[Opie 308]

This guy seems to just reiterate other people's rumors, like who is living with whom on the blues.

When you have to include where the 4th overall pick is going to live, you need to do more research and find more relevant info.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was right on the Bowman front only because his son is there, it appears to be a little more valid than Bowman to Toronto, but I will believe Bowman is leaving when I hear the announcement from him or the Wings.

[Rice 42]

This is the same guy who said the Wings were ready to implode by December in '06 and that Lidstrom was leading a revolt against Babcock.

This is also the same guy who said Lidstrom would be out for not three weeks, but three months when he got hurt this year. The Wings were just trying to hide it.

Don't believe anything you read on that website.

[puckbags 863]

Eklunds site is 96% bulls*** and thats an (e5). I go there perioically just to see what kinda crap he is trying to stir up. Anyone can start a crazy rumor and look like a genius if it comes true. The problem with Eklund is when he's wrong about one of his (e5's) or (e4's) or his B9 or his I63's he never seems to man up and admit it.

[Cicada 4]

utter bulls***..

stothers failed as a AHL coach so he's going to coach the kings? BULLs***

Q was offererd the assistants job. BULLs*** - it's Babcocks choice and he's said he hasn't interviewed anyone yet?

strickland = epic fail

[NeverForgetMac25 483]

You know whats worse than eklund?

.......and eklund wanna-be!

e5

Edit: (Tori) Spelling

Edited June 24, 2008 by Never Forget Mac #25

[zata40 3]

You know whats worse than ecklund?

.......and ecklund wanna-be!

e5

maybe they were separated at birth

[NeverForgetMac25 483]

Joel Quenneville was offered the assistant job in Detroit, but turned down the offer.

Yeah, because he's had such success over the years figuring out how to beat Detroit, I'm sure the Kenny & Co. were ready and waiting when Quenneville was let go.

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[Shaman 713]

Well, its too bad that Bowman said he was too old to coach and is happy with his job with the wings.....

[grsbmd 0]

I'm glad Quenville declined (if he even did). Who knows might have happened if the coach who could never beat Detroit suddenly became a coach in Detroit?

The reaction might have gone supercritical . . . we might have divided by zero . . . we might have created an artificial singularity . . .

Only Eklund would know for sure what might have happened

[Guest Crymson]

The aforementioned Strickland article about the Wings is below. Not only is the guy a moron, but he also apparently can't write to save his life either; it's all chock-full of terrible grammar and outright wrong use of words. That's telling in a writer who attempts to make himself out as legitimate.

Dysfunction in Detroit?

Someone who is close to the Red Wings organization recently told me that Detroit will self implode by Christmas.

Naturally I asked why?

The individual told me the players don’t respect Mike Babcock, and his act has already worn thin with management as well. To the point where General Manger Ken Holland is so involved that he and Babcock have one on one meetings sometimes more than once per week to make sure things are moving in the proper direction.

One would think they are when you consider how well Detroit is playing but when your star players are complaining to management the boat can begin to rock pretty quickly.

Babcock is known to like to keep his teams off balanced. He will often call in his power play unit for a meeting and ask them what they feel they need to do. After his players give their opinions he will often say something to the effect of, sorry were not doing it that way and will create something entirely different.

The players are not happy with his overall demeanor and philosophy.

I’ve been told that all world defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom began to instruct his teammates not to say a word when they go into the special teams meetings. People who have covered the NHL and the Red Wings will tell you that Lidstrom is probably the nicest player in the NHL not to mention one of the best defenseman ever. One would have to try pretty hard to get Lidstrom not to like you.

It seems pretty hard to make Babcock happy. He once told some people that if Anaheim had gotten some goaltending in game seven of the 2003 Stanley Cup finals that the Ducks would have one the Cup. Babcock was coaching Anaheim at the time, if you remember Jean-Sebastian Giguere, was in net for game seven, and won the Conn Smythe trophy as the NHL playoff MVP that year.

There apparently was more than just age as to why Yzerman decided to hang up the skates. The truth is Babcock better win in the playoffs or he won’t be in Detroit much longer.