Patrick Roy is not a junior hockey victor with capturing a second Memorial Cup, and if I have been an NHL normal supervisor in search of a head coach, I’d make it my mission to interview Roy for the place.
I’d see him behind the bench of a successful crew working in an enormous market and Canada specifically.
That’s why the Toronto Maple Leafs come to thoughts first. Think about a Saturday evening sport between the Canadiens and the Leafs, proven coast-to-coast, with Roy on the Leafs’ bench. It might be magical.
Whether or not that may occur stays to be seen. Hockey President Brendan Shanahan has simply employed Brad Treliving to interchange Kyle Dubas as normal supervisor and the case of present coach Sheldon Keefe is pending.
What I do know, although, is that the Leafs haven’t discovered learn how to win but, and that’s Roy’s forte.
From goalie to supervisor, Roy has received all of it, together with the Jack Adams Trophy for Finest NHL Coach in Colorado in 2014.
The one trophy the well-known quantity 33 has but to win is the Stanley Cup as head coach and I’m certain that’s his purpose.
Roy has refined himself
Roy paid the value for leaving the Avalanche unconcernedly after his third season as a pilot in the summertime of 2016 and he put the spokes within the wheel himself, however issues have modified.
He fortunately restored his picture by returning behind the bench on the Quebec Remparts.
The ball was in his courtroom and now it belongs to the leaders in the complete NHL.
I take my hat off to him and he deserves one other probability.
It has been refined and is in tune with 2023.
And what potential coach has a resume as in depth as Roy?
Nevertheless, one actuality stays in ice hockey.
A candidate’s resume, irrespective of how prolonged, is one factor.
The person has to suit the group’s imaginative and prescient, and that’s the place Roy has to promote himself within the interview.
He can even should restrict himself to the function of head coach and I feel he’s prepared to simply accept that now. It’s his place. He’s like a fish in water behind a bench.
Rangers, my second selection
Within the case of the Leafs, Roy wants to indicate Shanahan and Treliving clearly how he’ll take their crew to the following stage; Ditto for Rangers GM Chris Drury, his former teammate who’s seeking to substitute Gerard Gallant.
For Roy, Rangers could be my second selection. New York is a unprecedented market and there’s a crew that’s able to win however goes a little bit bit in all instructions.
The subsequent selections will likely be decisive.
They’ve good veterans and good children like Alexis Lafrenière, a wonderful goalkeeper with Igor Shesterkin and an skilled goalkeeping coach, Benoît Allaire, François’ brother who suggested Roy for a very long time.
The senators, my third selection
There are mainly no open positions in Ottawa, however with the crew’s upcoming sale, you by no means know. The Senators are making progress however usually are not but on the stage of the Leafs or the Rangers.
Roy may do growth work there and over time there could be an actual rivalry between the Sens and the Canadians.
A Sens win over the Habs within the playoffs, with Roy on the bench, would set the temper, just like the Nordiques’ triumph in 1982.
Actually I’d a lot somewhat see Roy in an enormous hockey market than in a metropolis like Columbus or Anaheim.
– Interview by Gilles Moffet
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FOUR MEMORIAL CUPS
I’ve to congratulate not solely the Quebec Remparts on successful the Memorial Cup, however the complete league as this marks the fourth straight Memorial Cup to be received by a QMJHL- Workforce received was canines. To say that between 1972 and 1996 we went nearly 25 years with no win. It’s actually encouraging to see and we’re hoping so as to add a fifth subsequent yr.
CAUFIELD UNDER CONTRACT
Nobody was shocked to study that Cole Caufield had signed an eight-year contract with the Montreal Canadiens for a couple of dollars lower than Nick Suzuki. Caufield and his agent may have balked and lengthened the gravy, however that’s okay. Caufield is glad in Montreal and everyone seems to be glad. Followers will likely be handled to a spectacular Caufield-Suzuki duo for years to return. It’s just like the scenario children Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane had with the Chicago Blackhawks again then.
FUNNY END
I repeat it typically. Successful a streak in 4 video games is a poisoned present. It’s good to have days off, however 11 days is a very long time and it’s simpler to lose focus in Florida. That’s precisely what occurs with the Panthers within the sequence finale in opposition to the Golden Knights. It’s not over but. The 7-2 thaw might be a blessing. You couldn’t ask for a greater wake-up name, even when Paul Maurice’s aspect really feel the urgency of the scenario at 2-0 within the sequence. Within the earlier two Magic sequence, goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky struggles to get again on his ft, and the Knights don’t make life simple for him. On the different finish of the rink, Adin Hill continues his good work. Who knew Hill could be so near successful the Stanley Cup? Former Remparts Jonathan Marchessault on the wheel of the Conn-Smythe Trophy.