McLellan on captaincy, style of play, and more

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McLellan 1, Sliced Bread 0
Published 6/13/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... you want people that want to coach this organization and will accept the expectations of winning. Sometimes, people shy away from that. Some people like the comfort of 'Let's go develop something, let's take some time.' But this is a guy that likes winning. He understands the expectations. He welcomes the expectations. He is a winner." Not everything's certain--as the Mercury News's David Pollak points out, McLellan didn't discuss the status of the incumbent assistant coaches (not at first , anyway), and he's got a rough go in terms of determining whether the ...

Should Nabokov have won Vezina?
Published 6/13/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Richard Pollock) at IllegalCurve.com
From David Pollak's entry in Working the Corners: Finally, I’m just catching up to the fact that Martin Brodeur, not Evgeni Nabokov won the Vezina Trophy tonight. The GMs, not the media, vote on this one so it’s harder to explain the usual East Coast bias. I think maybe you just chalk it up to bad judgment. Read the full entry here. I completely disagree with Pollak here. Nabokov played on a far superior team than Brodeur did. If you look closely at the ...

In Hartsburg, Senators seek inspiration from uninspired choice
Published 6/13/2008 at Puck Daddy
... -- two postseason bridesmaids, selecting new leaders. The Sharks went for a winner without NHL head coaching experience in Todd McLellan, who is saying all the right things while exponentially increasing the optimism around the franchise. The Senators went with Hartsburg, a veteran coach ...