8 Burst results for "Bob Hartley"
The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"bob hartley" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"There was no emergency backup in the building. So during that altercation, what was her left in the game, ray, 6 minutes or so? Yeah, it was a little straight down. It was the last time. And Atlanta was getting thumped. Like they were down 5 or 6 goals. And the goaltender that's in nets ends up fighting. And it was the second fight in the same stop. Second or third fight, whatever. So we tossed the goalie. Now Atlanta doesn't have a goaltender. So we work everything out. Let me go over to the badge, bob Hartley's coaching. And I'm explaining the bob. You know what bob, you got a couple of choices here. You can play 6 attackers. You can pick anyone in your lineup. They go put goalie equipment on and go get them dressed. Or if you have a third goaltender with you, I mean you're on the road, but you will let you get the goaltender dressed. So Mick comes in joins the conversation and bob's all mad, he's complaining about the fights. The thing about the whole game. We're the reason that he's lost. He's losing by 5 goals. And he goes, so you're telling me I can dress one of these guys and you're going to give me time to dress him. He's going to take 25 20 minutes, 25 minutes to dress this guy. Mick goes, yeah, we're going to do that. He goes, well, you know what I'm doing? I'm going to dress a goalie, and I'm going to just stand here. I'm going to go team yellow you and everything. And it goes. You do whatever you want, bob. We're going to be able to sit in the penalty box over there. Are we going to let the fans on TV and the fans aren't building laugh at you guys because you're down 5 goals. We skated away. Across the ice anyways, you thinks about it, and he goes, we're going to play with 6 attackers. I love that. The heat gets so high. You don't even think. So Hartley's yelling at you. And he's like, God, I'm taking a half an hour, and you're like, yeah, go ahead. And then he thinks about it for 30 seconds and goes, we just want to get the hell out of here. I think a couple of his players might have turned around after that and said, really, bob. You know, let's get this going and so we did. And do their credit or maybe Abbott's credit as well. I don't know that they got a goal score on 6 minutes. I think by that time, everybody was so tired from fighting. They had a lot of years. And I think everybody admitted to how to point by that point. That's a good point. One last one for me here. You watch the games today to officials, there's been such a turnover in the league as fellows like yourself have retired and moved on. Dreads mentioned earlier, 1500 games plus for you, which is just astounding. When you watch these guys now, do they seem as they come in and now they work some American League games, some NHL games till they become full-time guys. Does it seem harder and do these guys seem younger than when you started?
Stuff You Should Know
"bob hartley" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Right, we're going to finish up with what Ed calls odds and ends, which I think is perfect because some of these are significant moments. Some of these are just little other random bits. Tropes, what have you. One is a trope for sure, which is the couch in the center of the room. It's obviously done this way because it just makes a lot of sense. To have sort of the central action being framed around the central part of a living room, but it's funny, if you go back and look at all in the family, the Cosby show and at least married with children, those three sets are almost identical and that you have your entry door on the right, the couch in the middle, and a set of stairs behind you. And then, of course, shows like Friends and Seinfeld. And it's not like landmark to say, hey, listen, the action on the center of the room. But the couch in the center of the room definitely became a trope. Yeah, it allows actors to interact with the person on the couch without standing in between them and the camera to stand behind them, right? So it makes total sense in sitcom world, but it is bizarre if you step back and think about it. That actually ties in, chuck with another little tidbit about sitcoms called the fourth wall. And it's not just sitcoms, but any TV show, but it particularly applies to sitcoms because if you look at a sitcom set, there's usually three walls. There's the back wall and two sidewalls, but the front wall is imaginary, and it allows you the viewer to look in on the action, but the people in the action, the actual characters, don't recognize that you're looking back at them or they're not supposed to. But you can really toy with this whole thing because every once in a while a character can turn and address the viewer and that's called breaking the fourth wall. Yeah, which can be fun, it can be funny if Burt Reynolds does it and gives his little signature laugh in a movie. That's funny. It Ferris Bueller does it, it's funny. It can be a little weird and disconcerting. So breaking the fourth wall is something that whenever it's entertained by a director or production or writer or whatever, it's always very much like, let's put a lot of thought into this because it can really go bad. That's right, right, yeah. Yeah, you don't want to you don't want to do it wrong because I would guess you could think like a whole show doing it wrong. Yeah, it's not a Willy nilly thing. How about spin offs? I love spin offs. There have been a lot of very bad ones. But in some cases, spin offs have been at least as popular as the original show. You have great shows like mash, which had trapper John MD, which was pretty popular. And then the very not great after mash. Yeah, that was weird. Terrible title. And then that's pretty good too. Two is not bad. What about happy days though? Happy days had mork and Mindy, of course, very popular show. Joanie loves chachi. Not so great. Laverne and Shirley, that was from these two, right? Great, great show. And then there were two more, which I didn't even know about. One called blanks, these beauties were one called out of the blue. And the reason you don't know about them is because they were terrible shows, but also like they introduced more in season 5 and gave him a spin off. These guys were introduced. They would introduce the character out of the blue for the first time, and then the next night they would premiere their spin off show. And it just was a format they were trying into quite worked out. Yeah, it didn't work very well. The jeffersons I mentioned spun from all in the family, another really popular show was a different world that spun out for the Cosby show. Benson was a spinoff. From what? So, okay. And I love Benson as a kid. I love that show. Facts of life was a great spin off from different strokes, of course. Frasier, one of the all time great shows, spun off from one of the all time great shows. Yeah, from cheers. You remember Fraser was, I think he dated Diane for a little while, didn't he? He was introduced dating Diane, and then later dated Lilith, of course, one of the greatest characters, right? Yeah. And she actually made it over to the spin off too. Yeah, yeah, she appeared on Frasier for sure. So all in the family is apparently the all time spin off champ with 7 shows that it produced. Wow. The reason it was able to do this is because it was so popular, some of its spin offs had spin offs. I think rota was a spin off from all in the family, and it ended up spinning off Gloria, I think, or something like that. So all told all in the family generated 860 episodes of television. Wow. It's almost like the Tommy, what's his name verse? Tell me westfall universe. Yeah, it is very much like that. I was trying to explain that to Emily some people the other day and just totally botched it. I need to retake that one too. Just get me on the phone, put me on speakerphone. I should. And then recently, we don't get a lot of spin offs anymore, but we should definitely shout out grown ish, which is a newer spin off of black ish. Right. So it still happens. Another thing that happened that was kind of like a landmark bomb in the sitcom world and not bombing the bad way, but like meaning it was consequential. The Flintstones came out in 1960. And up to that point, no one had even conceived of an animated sitcom, but there's absolutely what it was. So much so essentially an animated ripoff of the honeymooners based in prehistoric times. Yeah. And animated sitcoms became a staple of TV, a prime time television with the jetsons. Of course, our beloved Simpsons and futurama, and now bob's burgers is one of the Family Guy of course, and then bob's burger is one of the longest running current sitcoms animated sitcoms. Yeah, there's also Rick and Morty, South Park. There's tons of animated sitcoms out and they can all thank the Flintstones for that. And to a lesser extent the jetsons. It's funny to think of South Park as a sitcom, but I guess it is. Totally. It's just so offbeat. It doesn't seem to have fit that mold, but it is absolutely. And then chuck, there's one other significant moment in TV. I want to definitely shout out. It was the last episode of new heart that aired in 1990. Did you see it? I did. I was a big fan of both the original Bob Newhart show in reruns and then loved loved the new heart show where he was the in the first one. He was a psychologist, married to Suzanne. And in the second new heart, he was a B and B operator in Vermont, right? Yeah, named dick loudon. And the second showed new heart was much more weird and wacky and just kind of went out there, whereas the Bob Newhart show from the 70s was a little more like down to earth and stayed. It had new hearts deadpan humor. We did in New York. And so in the last episode of newhart, the second show, it starts out the last couple of minutes start out in a darkened room, and all of a sudden bob wakes up or dick loud and wakes up, you think. And it turns out he wakes up his wife next to him and it's Suzanne plessy, his wife from the Bob Newhart show from the 70s, and it turns out that the entirety of new heart took place in a dream of bob Hartley's in the show the Bob Newhart show. It's one of the greatest series finales of all time of any show, not just sitcoms. Absolutely. For my money, maybe the only time it was all a dream thing worked to perfection because it's kind of become a trope, like a bad trope, where it just is sort of a lazy way to do something. Sure. The reset button. Yeah, but boy, they pulled their card at the right time. The original new heart show was so beloved, I think, and Suzanne Pleshette. So recognizable and beloved, it
Spittin' Chiclets
"bob hartley" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"The apps kind of help me out with hiring some English teacher, but back to Chris. He was an awesome guy. Performer. Definitely, it helps. So I was not the only rookie there. Chris was with me there. And he was a phenomenal player. When the games were on the line, he was just phenomenally produced and what a competitor, great guy, and obviously doing really fine job in rangers now. Yeah, he is. Sorry, just to go back to what you said so that the team hired you an English instructor. So is this kind of after practice a couple of days a week, you'd go over and just basically like talk with them or were you actually doing different grammar? Like, how did they go about teaching you that? And were you almost almost a little annoyed? Like I want to learn English, but I really don't want to do this after practice. Right, like you're absolutely gas after practice. It feels so hard to start after practice. And then you're going to talk to the English teacher for a couple of hours a day. But I knew it's better for me. It's not easy when you're in a locker room, guys, guys talking about whatever and you have no idea what they're talking about. Same thing with coach. So it was kind of a little bit difficult, but I think in a way, once you get through it, it makes you tougher. I don't think nothing ever surprising life anymore. And I think at the end, it served me well. But the first couple of two or three months were tough. Meanwhile, with some of the things I hear about bob Hartley, it's probably a good thing you didn't speak English. I think so. Bob, sometimes run the English French and when are you in French? And then it was kind of ugly. When I actually Alex sanguine it was my second year, Alex dengue came there too, and so when they started speaking French, he was usually not good. But bob was a tough coach, but a very successful coach. Anywhere he went. He won. So great to him. Impressive. I mean, it might be a rumor. Did it get to the point where even after you guys had won your cup that he got locked out of the locker room, or is that just an old wise? That never happened. Okay. It was just a rumor, but I got to give you one story. I think it was my first year. So we're running some drill, and I screwed up the drill a couple times, probably not knowing exactly what's going on there. And bob lost it on me. And he goes, hey, hey, go sit on the bench. So I'm sitting on a bench. Guys, the practice of practice is running. For like 15 minutes, I'm just watching the guys from the bench. They're just the drills aren't going on, and I'm just watching. So that's unbelievable. Bible stuff, like especially on Iraqis, but after the first year, then he was fine, and he was actually really good to me. Was that the first time that you'd ever experienced a coach that was maybe that intense and that hard towards the players or had you? In check, you had some tough coach about this, this was a different level. Definitely. And you're like, okay, you got to deal with it. But at the end, I think it does make you a little bit tougher and things don't surprise you anymore. Now, one quick one, we're about bob hardly here. Would he speak a little bit differently to forsberg and sack it more so than the other guys know? Because I can't imagine him raising his voice to sack it. Yeah, like maybe a little bit, but I think at the end of the day, then you know, he's a meaning well. But obviously, any coach, you're going to treat the top players a little bit differently, right? They have a little bit longer reach than others. That's just kind of think. And I always know differently, bob. Did you know just how good those guys were and so you started playing with them? Joe, Joe and Peter? Yeah, like heard of all them and then once you step, step on the edge for them. And especially like watching them daily during the practices. I think it helps all the players, not just me, you see how they deal with different situations on the ice on their pressure. What do they do? Obviously it's awfully difficult to duplicate it because there are superstars and very few people can do this when they did. But both really just hard workers and impressive players. It definitely helped me to spend on the same line with them at my first NHL game was with Joe sack again and key Jones. I showed you all these basket and wife. How the hell did jonesy get on sack a collage? He could talk his way into any situation, jonesy. That's probably not enough. I think that the most legendary, I guess there's a lot of peer force, but the thing that I think of is the year, I think it was all one O two. He missed the entire regular season. Didn't play one game and comes back and leads the playoffs and scoring. I know you've seen so many wild things that he accomplished, but that must have been like mind-blowing to see him come back first game of the playoffs after so long and just immediately light it up. Well, it's starting basically so 2001 we won the cup and the training camp in Sweden. And Peter is a big part of it, basically started up in the stock room. So we have a training camp in sago, it was basically the same team when we won the cup O one plus a few other extra guys. And Pete announces there that he's retiring. And we were like, what? What? No one saw it coming. So we're in Sweden right then. Actually, the cam training camp was cut short because of 9 11. So the twin towers went down and we left Europe earlier because of that. But had a priority in Sweden here press conference and I was retirement. Wow. What's going on here? So Pete missed the whole top night at cafe Oprah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we spent some time there. And so Peter announced his retirement, misses the whole season, then he comes back and he just lights out in playoffs. He averaged two points a game or something like that in playoffs, missing entire season. Who can do that? Unbelievable, impressive. So at the time, I mean, was that already the beginning of the foot injuries that really plagued the rest of his career, where he was almost. It was part of it. He was dealing with some pain and it was just too annoying for him. And he called it a quiz there. And we just won the cup, right? And we're just kind of ready to go for a run. And you're arguing the best player is gone. You're like, wow, that's a massive blow. Was Theo flurry you.
AP News Radio
Kadri extends point streak, Avs top Ducks 5-2 for 6th in row
"Colorado won its sixth consecutive game besting the ducks five to two during the streak the avalanche of scored thirty six goals all while missing superstar Nathan mackinnon captain Gabriel Landeskog coming out of our zone with speed and and and also we do that and play fast draw some penalties and apart please been a lot better last six seven games yes took the lead for good at two one in the second period on a redirect by Alex new hook the game took a bizarre twist when Colorado goalie Darcy Kemper twice had to exit because of a malfunction with the blade on one of his skates with the victory Jared Bednar past Bob Hartley is the winningest coach in avalanche franchise history Bruce Morton Denver
31 Thoughts: The Podcast
"bob hartley" Discussed on 31 Thoughts: The Podcast
"Duty doodoo coming down in three to end when you got it yourself this time. Okay welcome once again to thirty thousand podcast in. What has become an annual tradition here elliot. We're going to go through all the teams in the nhl in advance of the season. But i some thank yous at in season cup first of all actually before we do that thanks to caroline cameron and david amber for stopping by and doing our season cup podcast. The other did thank them again. We already thank them. I'm trying to be gracious here. Okay i know that's a foreign concept to elliott but being gracious is something people find commendable. So i'm being gracious to killing cameron and david amber for stopping by. I'm also being gracious and thankful for at in-season cup elliott. This is a grade four and five class that have actually taken this your premise of an in season stanley cup pool and are actually using it as a quasi math project and essentially and this is why. I'd like to thank the myself doing all of our tracking work for us. Yes like the way that they've laid it out to looks really good like discipline. Really significant and serious thought put into this and they've grabbed a lot of the animation. From nells brits who does the animation for burkey. So thank you all right. So the The school is gladys speers public school in oakville ontario. I've asked if we can post a photo of the class of course in this day and age you need permission teachers students and their parents and that's all being worked on but at some point we're going to do it now. Just wanted that jeff and say thank you very much now. First of all. I was blown away by the reaction to this. The amount of you who want to do a pool of your own. And i think it's great. The whole point of doing this is to have fun. And i hope everybody has fun. But you guys had really good questions and the obvious ones was what happens over. The all-star break the olympic break in the christmas break and the way it works is those days. Don't count like. I think there's a big difference between a game where there's nobody playing but it's in the flow of play and one of those specific breaks so you don't count the days during those breaks. That's the way we always did it in high school. I have a question. Yeah i thought of this on my way back from the rink this afternoon. I know this because it really annoy me. Okay yeah this is going to be good. Yeah okay what. If a team that has the cup Has an outbreak in their games are postponed. We'll cross that bridge common to it. I thought that that was my thought. Is you're anything else from the season company. What if it's like last year there's games going on while the plastic going on around is gonna explode. We'll cross that bridge when we come into it but basically the brakes. Don't count folks. I think that might be elliott. Friedman carney for if i'm in the lead the days count. No i wouldn't do that. I know i look dishonest. But i'm actually pretty honest. Okay so there we go. We have a lot to get to you by the way we're dividing this. Podcast up into too easily digestible podcasts. So we'll start with the first one. I was going to be eastern conference seconds. Going to be western conference. I know there's a couple of big new stories out there. The levy trade. We're going to get to that when we talk about vancouver the barkov signing get to that and we'll talk about florida's bene- jad when we get to the rangers. We will talk about that deal as well. Meantime start in the metro start with carolina The kotkin yemi situation entered derek. Step pound bear coal anderson ranta out hamilton out. Fogel your thoughts on the carolina hurricanes in the metropolitan i like carolina alight. I think they're a really good team. I'm not sure about the goaltending. That's the one thing. I look at their and i just wonder about. Is their goaltending. Going to be good enough. I think the rest of the team is really good. I think they're going to be an excellent regular season team. They made a call on the dell. Kovic and i think carolina's very much like that. I think it fits to their identity. We assign you a value and we don't go over that value but now they have a situation with a rhonda who they've liked for quite a long time and anderson. You know again. I just look at that and i say when this is all going to be over. Is that going to be the achilles heel. That gets them again. I liked their team though. I really do. Golfing has been the question. We've asked what the carolina hurricanes for a number of years i got. I don't think that's exclusive to these two just because they're the to quote unquote new guys. Columbus blue jackets inter vora check inter rally gustav. Nyquist returns a couple of rookies in colesville cylinder. Chenikov jake bean bookfest on the back end. What do you make of. Brad larson squad. Well i think they're going to be better than a lot of us are giving credit for. I think this is a team. That's going to be in a lot of games. I really liked the goalie. Combination of moore's leekens incorporate. Sahoh i think a lot of people are expecting that this will be corpus all those last season in columbus but i think those two guys are good goalies. Even though it's tortorella not there. You know brad larsen. He's not tortorella but he's got a similar attitude in the sense that he believes that hard work and your willingness to grind is critical to your team right. So i think that maybe they don't have the same head coach but they've got a guy who believes in a similar kind of identity and i and i think a lot of the players who've been there for a while or who've been in the system. I think we'll understand that you know. I just don't know if there is deep is other teams in on. Not crazy about them down the middle. I'm really curious about what they're gonna do with cylinder. Here's like is he going to be their number-one stander to start the season to me. One of the biggest things is lying. I mean we saw that beautiful goal. You undressed everybody's young studies side or the other night when they played detroit if line is back to being line a. That's a huge difference maker for this team. I think they've got holes. I don't think they're a playoff team. But i do think they're going to be a lot better than they're getting credit for it. I think they're gonna give teams fits. I'm with you down the middle on the one hand. It's wonderful that an eighteen year old just made the columbus blue jackets But what business do they have. Having an eighteen year old. I line center with the columbus blue jackets drafted twelfth overall. But he had a wonderful camp. He looked really good. Chenikov looked really good. Remember remember we talked to bob hartley boat and he was laughing at us and he was laughing at us and he gets the last laugh because janikowski just made the team one thing i do want to point out to how good for a check has been in the preseason specifically with patrick line and i was sort of equated to a even though the they're both wings and they play opposite sides of the ice. As you line up for the face off this kind of feels. They came to me that they are you know..
Spittin' Chiclets
"bob hartley" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"Called in white tough year to tell you often gordie dwyer what kind of shady shit was going on the quebec junior league when your plan there. That type of stuff was going on with terry squad yet. La belle was like i said they out all they were known. It was the house of pain before my time. You at the team with bob. Hartley was the coach. Always a tough tough team and it was a. They tried to intimidate us. So that was that was hall was like kind of the the rivalry so hall of always kinda too so it was fun. And that's how i met michelle -tarian then after that. We kind of hated each other playing against him but then i had him in the american league when he signed montreal and i had him in the nhl. Obviously when i played for montreal so is h other fredericton rhetoric tanya so you spent some time there as well. I was lucky like my years was when i was twenty years old. I actually spend maybe three months there only so that wasn't bad but then at twenty one they send me back for almost a full year but a twenty on. They spent half of the season. There you think that next year they looked at like. Let's just give them a full year in the minors and then like he'll be end up coming up now. They fucked me that year because that they call me up in november. When i was twenty years. I pro- pro- Year saw twenty. You're they called me up. Tiba was number one. You got hurt. I was with padua lonski. And i ended up playing pretty much all the games like i was there for three weeks. Played all the game. And i out some pretty good game so so i felt i. I'm like okay. i'm almost there good. They send me back down and then not gonna name names air but something happened between padua blond skin teammates so all that to say they traded job lonski and they brought me up in february to finish a season so then the playoffs starts replaying jersey. It's me and tibo now playing jersey and we're all in three so they put me in the net for my first playoff game down. Three three in montreal. I play i'm running. I'm walking to the ring because we're saying at deal. Tell their team mocking. Nobody knows me which. I was walking to sue but nobody want pretty much. Nobody and then we won that game in triple overtime. So then they put me the other game which we laws. But i'm like okay. I finish the last two gains. I think i i and whatever third star so i'm like okay now next year. It's going to be me and siebel. We're gonna fight june july first gun. I'm playing golf. I get a call from a reporter. Yeah montreal just sign andy. Mo- do a two year deal so occasionally sell. You're going to go in the minors lauren. Sam getting cut in fucking july. I said give me a chance. At least you know so camp. And then finally i. that's how i ended up passing the spending. Most of the twenty one had to play off. You played the year before a little bit when they signed mug did you ever meet with. Gm in kind of tell him what the fuck i x. When they said that right away. I was fuming. Because i really. I was ready to fight for the number one job with deebo now being cut just at least say well we. We brought inexperienced. We're going to see train. At least they say the right thing. So i'm getting cut so we had a meeting. He's like all just play well. We'll see so. I ended up. I think solid catholic. Like because i was so pumped up. Yeah how to camp. And then when they send me the last day of camp they send in the minor because they wanted to kind of keep me till the end but so then there was like the big thing he gonna going to report them like for. Sure i'm going to report. But that's when you see montreal i i'd like twenty games experience and i threw a freaking press conference to explain that in the minor. This that's montreal. Like and i didn't wanna do it. It's just a team said. Know media's asking you gotta go through a press conference so you could answer because i'm like whatever we were just talking to the rock and he said that there was a couple of teammates going on at one point and they had to in the media guy was walking over to open up the door to let all the media and he's like what are you doing with. There's a couple players going at right now. Says god forbid we hold the media the room. Shit storm yeah but you you gotta play with almost. It's a game within the game. You gotta deal with the media. That like i had a few guys i kept on my side. You know. feed them a little bit of story. Because it's so big the media you you have to so but Fredericton was greater. Played with terry ryan legend. And my mom. Oh my god. I saw you guys. I never told you like the best. We had for saint patrick's day i never tell let's hear he decides because i left terry. It's a fun story. He's not gonna mind. I was nervous what he was going to say because what i played with them i was only twenty years old so he could. He could have through my name on album all about anyway. We had a bad. He's like you know it. Saint paddy's i'm going to go into a bar. 'cause we all went out to drink little puppies like i want to be my own record. I'm gonna try to drink thirty six beers in one hour and we'll count it so we went there so we're all around it. He puts i think after like twenty five or something you gets up for piss. You just fall of strays. that's it. Our i was just one hour. Twenty five i think or whatever but he the previous day so all of that to say he was a great guy for the team on when you got sent down obviously at the press conference. Go down there with a pretty good attitude. Hey i'm gonna still work on my game where you have to. Because fuck your your. I was making forty thousand a year over there. Canadian dollars.
WTVN
"bob hartley" Discussed on WTVN
"Josh cease, and without further ado, let's bring him in the brand new head coach. Of the Columbus Blue Jackets and I speak of Brad Larson. Brad, Welcome for the first time to the mark Blazer show. Thank you for coming on today. We appreciate this so much. Well, you bet. Mark. Thanks for having me. So, um, Brad, the the first off take me through how you you had to have been overjoyed when you got the the news that you're going to be the head coach, And obviously, along with that comes a lot of responsibility. But at the same time you're already in an organization that is used to. I mean, the culture is good for the players and such right now, but Take me through what? It was like when you found out you're going to be the head coach. Well, obviously there's excitement. I mean, that's the first emotion that goes over here, but you know there's a kind of things that you're processing at the time and Said this before, when you hear yes, you know, I mean, it's an exciting moment and and you all know that this is this is a tough job to get. There's only 32 of them now with Seattle during the league in the entire world, so It truly is a privilege and an honor to be able to represent an organization and, uh, yeah, I mean, just the fact that could call my my mom. My dad. My wife, you know, telling my kids it's a special moment. There's no question. I mean, let's be honest. Uh, you know, one of the drawbacks I would think in this, you know, doing being in the National Hockey League in such means. You probably. You know, you could be moving around a lot, and now you get to stay here. And hopefully you really like the Columbus area, because obviously you're going to be here for a while. But, you know, I think when I saw this, Brad that you're going to be the head coach, I thought You know, huge advantage. You know the strength. You know the deficiencies. You know your lineup. You know, everybody very, very well. And you probably I think that's an advantage over somebody coming in from another team. Another market or so on and you get to you kind of have a head start. Not kind of you do have a head start here. Yeah. First of all, Columbus City is an incredible place. I don't think it gets nearly enough credit for Yourself. Passionate fan base is, you know we've seen it. You know, you watch the playoffs and you know we were fortunate. Make a good run there, and this year was not a great year. We know that players know that frustrating year but The more you're around the the fans and the people here. They're very passionate fans and the city itself. It's such an underrated place. My family. I love it here, Um But there is an advantage to knowing, you know, kind of the the INS and outs. And you know the one thing everybody always asks, you know? Is it a fresh voice? Well, it absolutely is. I mean, just because Have been an assistant coach. I understand that, But now you're you take on a different rules, the head coach, and there's certainly much different responsibilities and you're delivering the hard messages. But what I'm excited about is building a new staff. You lose Bradshaw, who is a tremendous coach, and he's already found a job right away. Just because we know how good he is so well, I wish him luck. But Now I get to hire two new guys, which brings two new fresh set of lenses to new, different energy sources. And and it's excitement. I think for You know, for our players, and for me, I think it's going to be an awesome transition, and we're looking forward to it. So I got a I I did get a question fed to me here that I want to to to ask you about. Brad Larson, head coach. The Columbus Blue Jackets joining us now. So you know the challenge of going from being an assistant coach still ahead, coach on the same team. You did it, obviously in Springfield. And a lot of times head coach is the bad guy. The assistant is the good guy. So now your demeanor your approach. Does that need to change now that you're the head coach? No longer the assistant. Well, then, the piece of advice I got when I first started back and add a coach was always be true to yourself, and I expect to do that. I don't think Think who I am. What I represent what I value that never changes. Um, there will be change. There's no question when you when you lead a team, and you're you're the voice. You're the one that's going to deliver the message. This is the one that Here in front of it all the time and someone has to lead it. So, um, but in saying that I value my assistant. I'm going to value my staff torch did the same thing with us and I expect to do the same thing with my group and everybody is going to have a voice and it's going to be a collaborative type environment. So There's change. There's no question in how you approach it. How you talk about it in the message is you got to deliver, but I think you've got to be true to who you are. I'm a passionate guy got tons of energy. I'm excited. I think you know, As you get to know me, you'll feel that you'll be around it and I think the players understand that. You know that. That's something I'm going to bring each and every day. Blue Jackets, head coach Brad Larson joining us So you're named assistant seven years ago in June of 14. And as you have been the assistant over this over these years, and you watch guys that you're working with. And you know different things that they do. Um, you probably are making notes, if at least mental if not actual notes along the way, like maybe I would do this differently to get this kind of a result or whatever. Are there other like one or two things that jump out at you? That right away? You're like, Okay, I get to finally test out my theories or what have you here? Well, I don't know if it's theories. I think you know, I've been doing this since I was 19 years old. As far as taking the notes. You know, I got to ask the question when you know you wanted to be a coach, and honestly, I think it was back when I was 19. So I had Hey, Tom McClelland, who has been a very established coach. I had it for three years in junior. I had Mike Babcock before at the world. Junior. She made me captain when we won gold medal. Um, had Ken Hitchcock helped kind of mentor me when I first started. Said Bob Hartley. I had three different times and he's one of Stanley Cup Swiss League cage. You name it. So I think I had had Mick Foley knows Dad for three years, and he made me captain in Hershey. So I think what you do is you try to absorb and take the best qualities that you believe are the best qualities and then Go back to the original statement to be true to yourself, so You kind of mold your shape you watch. And and then at the end of the day, you better be who you're going to be. Be true to yourself, Um, and then apply those things and implement them with your with your players, but with your staff's health. Brad Larson, Blue Jackets head coach. Joining us right now, you know, as I look, I'll be honest being in Columbus. I didn't. I've lived here my whole life Brad, and as far as a hockey fan, it was always a 30,000 ft view for me because I am a sports fan overall. And over the last, you know, several. I'll just be honest. The last several 5 10 years I started paying more attention to hockey and not being a huge fan, but finally starting to really, really get into it these last several years. And to see and it's It's just like it kind of. It's almost like a lot of other professional sports. It's this razor thin margin that separates winning and losing a game. And it's such a game that it's crazy to watch how close the jackets were to being, You know, really, really good at points during this past season, for instance, and moving forward, I mean, those are the things that you have to work out. What are some of those things that that put us on the winning side of that? That razor thin margin? Um you know, you hear about fundamentals and so on and so forth, but Those are the little things day in day out that that lead to winning, Don't they?.
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"If if Kevin Adams tomorrow was going to announce that Don Granato is the new head coach, this team Think there'd be a lot of people that are very pleased. And okay with that decision moving forward, Okay? Yeah. My question to you is What is the coach? If it's not Don Granado. What coaches? Are you okay with Is, um is, uh Quinn, one of those coaches He would not be my first choice. He wouldn't be on my top. We heard Rick talk it. Uh, you know, last week I interviewed with the Sabres. What is the coach? That if it's not Don Granato, what is the coach that you would be okay with? Well, I'll tell you this the number one guy on top of my list, and it was always the number One guy on top of my list was Gerard Gallant. And now is that because you won No when he got fired from the Florida Panthers, I said Air Vegas airs your coach. When he got fired from Vegas. I said Seattle layers your coach. He's Remember him when he was an assistant with Montreal had a long conversation with him here in Buffalo. I have loved him as a coach as a person. What type of coaches he Marty. He's a player's coach. You know what he does? I mean, So there's for example, Alex stuck. Alex stock was a rookie in Vegas. Alex Duck, love the Vegas style, Right? Like I'm gonna set up dinners. I got friends here, friends there. I'm going to show in the Lamborghini. Most coaches Said a kid. How about you, uh, your head in the game and let's play the game right now. George La George Island is like you do what you have to do to be at your best. You want to try the lamb? Both. You want to be Bill Jackson to Phil Jackson's same thing, but give me or everything you've got. That's how I'm going to be a player's coach to you. I'm going to give you a rope. You do what you want with that row, and when it's not working, we're going to do it My way exactly there. I agree. He's not a soft, puppy like dog like you guys do whatever you want. Walk all over me. No, I'm going to give it to you. Then give me something back. I love that from Joe Gallant. I love that. It was real offer that guy gone through a wall for that guy. So this is a guy that you would probably say Gerald Gallant would be a player's coach, but he is good for older guys that are established that he's good for middle aged guys. Okay. I think it's good for everybody. Um, And I think you saw it at the world championship now, and that's just the use A very recent example. They're down three. Oh, there's no panic. It's Let's let's get one game going, right. I I really believed that he communicates well, he'd be my number one guy if that's not Don Granado and be George gone, But who knows? He's gonna have his pick enough teams. Probably who knows? Maybe not, But or maybe he's asking for a lot of money. I have no idea what that's what coaching vacancies are open. The Rangers. Columbus, Columbus Rangers, Arizona, Arizona, Seattle Buffalo. Yeah. Where else? Mhm. Well, Ducharme is going to earn that job now. It's not that's gonna is going to stay there. Um You know, And there might be some like for drug gallant If there's not an ideal situation, five teams currently right now that maybe a minute, maybe Winnipeg who knows what they do with Paul Maurice? Yeah. Who knows? But go ahead. Read. Make your point. You're right. Go ahead. I was just gonna say there's five teams out there. Then there was maybe while or better. It's rumored that Ron Brenda more as his contract done up, but it's still not. Pen to paper. So who knows? I think Rod Brennan. More knows that he does not need to have his contract. Um, go out publicly until the season's done. Would you? Would you agree? I would agree. I would think it's a handshake and we gotta we gotta deal done. Yeah. But okay, so to go back to question, though, so I think Granado for me is the likely guy because I really like how the team looked and he had a team. That was way worse. Talent wise, then away. They started at the start of the season, but the systems were good. The commitment to a team game was good and all three zones. He got the best out of the young guys. I really like what he did. But if you want to go a different route, and for me, it's not And there's a lot of other coaches out there. There's the Bob Hartley the bro's brewed row. Uh, the guy Boucher. Um well, there's a Tortorella. There's a lot of them out there and they are NHL coaches. For a reason. It would be George Gallant. Number one. I think David Quinn would come in at third or fourth in that list for me because the Rangers were scoring and outscoring teams like crazy. Yes, they had a couple of games where you know Zibanejad went off, but I think he found an offense from a team that really Nope. In Erin's advantage at but he got it out of Philip. He'd only got it out of Butch Nevins. He got it out of a lot of guys. I like that. I got Adam Fox to be and you're very special player like I I like him. What about Bruce Boudreau? Because we were talking and listening. And, you know, I think Bruce Boudreau is, uh, is a coach that Is interested in Buffalo. He's.