Report: Patrick Roy offered Avs' Head Coaching Position

[Electrophile 3,554]

So does this mean we all can start hating the Avs again?

What do you mean "again"?

[Electrophile 3,554]

If Im Granato I maybe go into the offices and demand to know why they are doing such a thing. I mean the guy has been head coach, demoted to assistant, back to head coach and now they want to hire a new guy while he still has 2 yrs left on his contact. I'd be pissed if they were jacking me around like that.

All the more reason we should be happy this is a class organization.

[titanium2 867]

Hmm... Well, Roy does have an infectious winning attitude/arrogance. In fact, it's so infectious that he has quite an interesting background check.

[RockyMountainWingGal 108]

That's a pretty s***ty thing to do to Granato. Dunno what the f*** Pierre Lacroix is thinking.

I never liked Granato - but i felt bad for him here in Denver this year and he's grown on me a bit. Their crappy ex GM Giguere gives him crap on ice to work with, what do you expect? Plus this is the SECOND time they've offered him a contract, then bumped him the second year of it (if indeed Roy accepts).

What if Roy doesn't accept? I just don't see how Tony could stay as coach, or have players listen to him. This organization is turning into the Lightning - rather amusing.

Look for the Avs to overtake the Ducks as the goons of the league if coach Roy shows up.

[drfnr14 0]

hahahaha to good to be true!!!

[Electrophile 3,554]

Look for the Avs to overtake the Ducks as the goons of the league if coach Roy shows up.

Lucky for us. Maybe they'll give Claude Lemieux, Mike Ricci and Adam Foote jobs too.

[betterREDthandead 58]

So does this mean we all can start hating the Avs again?

You stopped?

[Vladifan 680]

Oh good....now he can teach goaltenders at the highest level to assault non-willing participants.

Probably gonna bring his son in as goalie coach. Makes sense to me.

[Guest Shoreline]

You stopped?

Really died down after 2002, and especially after that 2008 annihilation.

[Bliz 0]

The Avs: No goaltending, no defense, one scoring line. How is a rookie coach what that team needs?

[BeeRYCE 2]

haha, he'll probably ask the GM to give his son a contract. I'm predicting the Avs will have the #1 draft pick next season.

That means... Taylor Hall on the Avs... I damn sure hope not!

[Vincanni 1]

I'd like to see this if not for anything else to make the Avs relevant again and/or interesting. It'd be nice to once again have a reason to root against them.

[Chris L 0]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2009...oy-reports.html

Roy denies he was offered Avalanche head coach position

Patrick Roy is denying reports he has been offered the head coaching job with the Colorado Avalanche.

The former Avalanche and Hall of Fame goaltender says reports from the Denver Post and ESPN.com that he has been offered Tony Granato's job as head coach are inaccurate.

"I never received an offer … but anyway, I'm not commenting," Roy told CBC's Radio Canada on Monday.

Roy, who is co-owner, GM and coach of the QMJHL's Quebec Remparts, told ESPN.com earlier this month that he met with Avalanche president Pierre Lacroix.

The Avalanche also confirmed on May 9 that Roy had met with Lacroix, but no other details were available.

"I went out there to visit him…. I also had friends in town that I wanted to go and see," Roy said.

"But we did talk a bit about my future. He wanted to know what was my future, but that's about it for now."

Several NHL sources told the Denver Post that Roy was thinking over the offer to coach the Avalanche.

Roy, 43, spent nearly eight seasons with the Avalanche and helped them to a pair of Stanley Cup wins in 1996 and 2001. He was traded from the Montreal Canadiens in 1995.

The Avalanche finished last in the Western Conference this season.

Granato coached the club last season, the first season of a second stint behind the bench for the club. He has two years left on his current contract.

[Drake_Marcus 890]

per espn.com and the denver post. The crazy thing is, Tony Granato is still under contract.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4174063

A few notes:

--> All this talk is incredibly disrespectful to Granato. Dismiss him and hire a new coach or back him up and say the rumours aren't true. It's really classless of the Avs to let this speculation continue when they're already paying a guy to be their coach. I feel bad for Tony in all of this.

--> It's pretty entertaining that this speculation continues even though we're only one year removed from the Roy-Rampart goalie fight debacle. Anyone else would have a tough time getting that incident off their record.

--> Haven't there been a few incidents involving Roy's rage while coaching? I'd be surprised if his behaviour behind the bench is tolerated at the NHL level.

[RockyMountainWingGal 108]

Really died down after 2002, and especially after that 2008 annihilation.

I was at that Game 4 watching that debacle and yes, I actually did start to feel sorry for them. Imagine the Wings going 0-8 vs. an arch-rival in a season (Ducks?), culminating with getting smoked 8-2 in our barn in the final game, and having MORE of the opposing team's fans in the house yucking it up - ouch!

[Guest Shoreline]

I was at that Game 4 watching that debacle and yes, I actually did start to feel sorry for them. Imagine the Wings going 0-8 vs. an arch-rival in a season (Ducks?), culminating with getting smoked 8-2 in our barn in the final game, and having MORE of the opposing team's fans in the house yucking it up - ouch!

That would harbor quite a bit of resentment from me if I were in those shoes. Maybe sort of a one-sided rivalry.

[Konnan511 1,736]

Well, seems he wasn't offered the job:

Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy denied being offered the Colorado Avalanche's coaching job, a position currently held by Tony Granato.

The Denver Post reported Monday that Roy had received an offer and was mulling it over. The Avalanche declined comment on the report, which cited anonymous league sources.

Patrick Roy

Roy

Later Monday, a spokeswoman for the junior league club Roy co-owns and coaches told The Associated Press that Roy had not received an offer from his old NHL team.

"I talked to him this morning and he said all those reports are speculation, he never received a formal offer," said Nicole Bouchard, director of media relations for the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

[VM1138 1,921]

Patrick Roy. ****** extraordinaire.

[Nightfall 871]

Apparently, he wasn't offered the job. Gotta love the media who reported this as truth.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4174063

[SweWings 45]

Yeah I bet the Avs will get a warm welcome at the Joe now...

[Rocket Queen 30 1]

If anyone hasn't heard this... and even if you have.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=AlA5...p&type=lgns

oops.. i didn't see someone had already posted it...

Edited May 19, 2009 by Rocket Queen 30

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

If I were Tony Granato, I'd (1) be very upset obviously about these false reports from wherever they came from and (2) be very upset at Avalanche mgmt. for possibly going behind his back while he's under contract, without giving him any hints or notions supposedly that he's been fired/going to be fired.