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Melrose Mullet Migration?
Published 5/30/2008 by OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki) at On Frozen Blog
... have been lured from the broadcast booth to behind the bench, replacing current Lightning Head Coach and fellow hair-product aficionado John Tortorella. While no official announcement has yet been made, Cox deems Melrose-to-Tampa a done deal. Read more about it here. ...

Worst Kept Secret in Hockey
Published 5/30/2008 by Alanah at KK Hockey
From Damien Cox at the Toronto Star, One of the worst kept secrets in hockey is expected to become public in the next few days as Barry Melrose returns from TV exile to take over the coaching reins of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Melrose, who last coached in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings 13 years ago, is expected to get the Tampa job, replacing John Tortorella, who has yet to be replaced or reassigned. continued... More at TSN.

Barry Melrose to Coach Tampa Bay
Published 5/30/2008 by Eric McErlain at FanHouse
... Thirteen years after he was dismissed as head coach of the Los Angeles Kings, Barry Melrose is going to get another kick at the can as head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Damien Cox of the Toronto Star has the skinny: ...

Return of the mullet?
Published 5/30/2008 by Rich Hammond at Inside the Kings
Barry Melrose will be the new coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, according to Damien Cox of the Toronto Star. Everything Old, New Again

Is Barry Melrose to Tampa Bay hockey's worst-kept secret?
Published 5/30/2008 at Puck Daddy
... to replace current head coach John Tortorella "one of the worst kept secrets in hockey." It's a secret he expects to be revealed in the next few days: ...

Melrose Place
Published 5/31/2008 by James Mirtle (noreply@blogger.com) at james mirtle
[image] I don't say things like this very often, but... The fact that the incoming Tampa Bay ownership — an underfunded group that is relying on cobbled together funds and financing from the ones getting out of Dodge — is going to fire the coach that led the team to the Stanley Cup and put in a media personality who hasn't coached in 13 years is, quite possibly, the most asinine thing I've ever heard. The Lightning ...

To Tampa or Not to Tampa -- That is the Mulleted Question
Published 5/31/2008 by Kevin (noreply@blogger.com) at Barry Melrose Rocks
... Rumors are flying wild about a potential move for the Mullet to ESPN. The key word there is 'potential'. That's because the folks in Tampa who want to hire Melrose, well, they don't even work for the team yet. So right now, even though ...