Jeremy Roenick, on of the game’s all-time greats, gives high-praise to Mike Keenan.
“Mike Keenan was one of the craziest sons of bitches I’ve ever seen,” Roenick said to chuckles. “He scared me into adapting the way I play. I was at Kalamazoo and he grabbed me by the throat and said if I didn’t hit the next guy I saw, I wouldn’t play a game in the National Hockey League. I saw the look in his eyes, and I really believed him.”
His eyes starting to water, Roenick continued, “I really believe because of him. … He’s why I played the game the way I played it.”
Roenick was a goofy son-of-a-gun, himself, but the guy played extremely hard and will be missed in the NHL.
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“Everything isn’t traditional with Mike, as you see. He does things a little differently sometimes, which I think has been good for us. We usually know if things are good or bad. Mike loves winning. We all love winning. But he loves it as much as any coach I’ve ever played for.” -Jarome Iginla on Mike Keenan
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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.
-James Madison
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“I think there are two solutions in professional hockey,” Calgary head coach Mike Keenan said. “I don’t want to misconstrue this for any amateur coaches watching or listening, but there is either a real successful solution, that’s winning, or not.”
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The way head coach Mike Keenan sees it, a little rest will do them a world of good. After a quick two-game road trip which also includes Minnesota, the Flames have a season-long six-game homestand over two weeks.
“Your schedule can be and often is your best friend. Or not,” he said after Friday’s defeat.
Case in point, having to play so quickly after a tough road trip, mostly in terms of late-night arrivals. An extra day before facing Florida, in his mind, would have meant a world of difference.
“I think our guys were fairly focused, paying attention to it, but it’s the time of year a lot of families have family in town and there are preoccupations,” he said.
“We have a lot of players with a lot of young children, and those little people don’t care if their father plays hockey or not.
“They want to see their father, be with their father, and rightfully so. And the fathers want to see their children.
“It’s not a preoccupation, but it gets you out of your routine. I can’t disagree with little people.”
Amen.
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“He really enjoys winning. He really, really does. He has fun when we win. Not so much when we lose. That’s all part of it — you want to win for him because you know it’s going to be that much better to come to the rink, to do stuff, to be around. Because when we were winning . . . you can really feel how much he gets excited. He shows the emotion. Sometimes maybe coaches don’t show it . . . even when you win. They’re just the same. But, hey, he’s really excited. And so are we.” -Craig Conroy on Flames head coach, Mike Keenan
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“We are not babies who are sucking our thumbs. We have very principled reasons [for opposing this].” -Michelle Bachman, R-MN
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Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being “chooses” to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.
-Cardinal Egan of New York
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“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.” -G.K. Chesterton
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“The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.”
Pope John Paul II
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