Melrose Hopes Tampa Doesn’t Win Another Game This Year

[Duck Guy 86]

well at least they have their savior Stamkos who will shoot them into the playoffs..... wait a minute here...

[Never_Retire_Steve 35]

Barry Melrose is an idiot but what did those two clowns expect by bringing in a guy who hasn't coached in over ten years.

[evilmrt 636]

The Tampa Bay organization is a bigger group of ****** bags than Melrose alone by far.

yeah, but still....

oh, someone else can drop an F-bomb on Melrose. Sorry folks.

Edited December 10, 2008 by evilmrt

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

Melrose's hating of Detroit goes way back. He served three seasons with the A-Wings, until 1991-92. During his last season in Adirondack, a balloon was floated that he was being groomed to be the next Head Coach of the Red Wings. Enter Bruce MacNall in Los Angeles. Whether it was LA wanting to stick it to Detroit or Melrose thinking he was going to get a more "glamorous" posting, he went to the left coast in 1992-93. Brian Murray lasted as both General Manager and Head Coach one more season. Murray's last season as just General Manager was 1993-94, when Detroit hired William Scott Bowman as their new Head Coach. And that worked out just fine.