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• Craig Conroy would no only like to see Mike Keenan return for the Calgary Flames, but be a little harder on the players. Other Craig Conroy likes: Paper cuts, fire ant bites and dropping car batteries on one’s toes. [Sun Media]
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Conroy: Bring Keenan back
Craig Conroy is the first of the players to speak out in more depth about his wishes for next year’s bench boss of the Calgary Flames:
“Mike’s got a good pulse for the team — when we need days off, when we need to do things and he’s approachable to talk to if there is a problem,” said the 37-year-old, who says that wasn’t necessarily the case when Keenan coached him in St. Louis in 1997, which is part of what makes the public backing of the once-feared coach all the more interesting.
Conroy has stated that Keenan probably wasn’t hard enough on his team when he should have been, last year, and that he hopes Keenan comes in with more of a hammer this season.
As the article points out, it’s not like many people are going to step out and say they hope that the coach is fired. At the same time, a player who feels that way isn’t obligated to say anything. Conroy clearly wants his familiar coach back with the team next year, with a few tweaks.
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Mellow Mike
The Globe and Mail has a fascinating article about Mike Keenan today. In it:
“He still loves to win, probably more than any coach that I’ve ever played for,” Conroy said. “Sometimes a coach will say after a game, ‘Yeah, you won, but you didn’t play all that well and didn’t deserve to.’ Mike is not like that. He is a bottom-line guy. If you won, you won. And if you lose, well, it’s not a lot of fun around here.”
No wonder I can identify with the man. We need more Mike Keenan’s in the world.
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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
