Don Cherry has a podcast now. That he does with his grandson and son. I haven't listened, obviously, but apparently the first one was predictably bad.
Yeah, the Canucks have also had a rotten November, but they've at least got three wins and picked up a couple loser points. They beat Nashville last night. It's weird, the Preds are the one team that has soundly outplayed them based on underlying metrics, but the Canucks, who can't seem to beat anyone else, have won both games. They kept taking dumb penalties last night and couldn't kill any of them (Canucks had 5 PP goals). Washington tomorrow, early start, which should be a guaranteed loss.
I have noticed Nashville has a southern equivalent of Calgary's Tina. Every time I watch a Preds game, she is sitting there, behind the bench.
The Flames feel like they are in freefall mode. They've been shut out in three straight road losses. There are Gaudreau trade rumours. After they lost 5-0 in St. Louis last night, their team plane had to be grounded due to mechanical issues. Sounds like fun.
Btw, Friedman talked a lot about the Flames and had a lot of tidbits on them in his last podcast, RE what players they might trade, Bill Peters's job security, etc. It starts at around 8:15 below:
https://podcast.sportsnet.ca/31-thoughts/no...ockey-universe/
Says they want to make trades, but they're not at trading Gaudreau yet. And the organization isn't going to let the players run another coach out of town like they did with Gulutzan.
Same. I usually mute it and play music during intermissions. I won't lie though, I don't really mind Burke as a commentator.
I heard that too. The Coach's Corner segment was recorded about three hours before it ran. They could have re-shot it if Ron, or anyone else on the crew, had realized what he'd said would become a big issue.
Not to defend Don Cherry at all, but Ron did kind of weasel away. I think he knew what Cherry was saying, but he didn't have the energy or courage to challenge him on it. He claimed he was forced to choose his principles over friendship in apologizing and condemning Don, but it seems much more likely that he chose his job security over friendship.
It was surprising and not at the same time. After Lou Lamoriello and Mark Hunter were forced out/fired, you knew Babcock was next. I didn't think they'd fire him when they did though. Conventional wisdom was that he'd get one more kick at the playoffs. Even with the start as bad as they've had, I at least thought they'd give him until Marner came back, or at least until the road trip ended.
Leafs fans are pretty gleeful he's gone. It's funny how the media in Toronto never challenged Babcock at all or reported anything negative about him. As soon as he was fired, they're all relaying anecdotes about how prickly Babcock was and how no one in the organization could stand him.
Yep! I'm starting to think they won't repair the old treads, so it's just as well.
