Hockeyhead

Let’s be straight about this, I loved Craig MacTavish.  Serious hard man-crush going on there.

MacTavish never stopped demanding the most out of his players, he just lost the touch for actually getting it out of them.

Oilers’ fans felt a collective pecker-flutter today when it was announced that Pat Quinn and Tom Renney were named head coach and associate head coach.  The first thing I thought was how cool it would be for them to wear masks and create confusion throughout the game, so that they could fool their opponents and the referees in order to win.  Just like the Killer Bees.

From TSN today:

Sources tell TSN, both Quinn and Renney agreed to 3-year contracts with an unwritten understanding, assuming all parties remain employed at the end of their contracts, Renney will have an opportunity to take over as head coach if Quinn retires.  Kelly Buchberger, who was an assistant coach with the Oilers last season is remaining on the bench.”

Having Buchberger back is a good move, he’s a fucking lunatic.  No one on that team would get too far out of line with a guy crazy enough to wear an ugly bucket like that for his whole career.

Pat Quinn has had nothing but success since he dropped off the NHL head coaching map.  I don’t really give a shit about him though, he’s more there to ‘conduct’ and for the name value.  Renney is the money-shot in this group of dicks.  Coaching in New York, pfft, that’s just a test of mental stability. Renney was built for winning, nothing could have helped that expensive mess in New York.  Not even Sean Avery.

As for MacTavish, I know he’ll land on his feet somewhere.  It won’t be the same though.