Archive for the 'Coach' Category

Lightning Are Savvy

Our favorite circus in the NHL this season has to be the Tampa Bay Lightning.  We won’t go over all the reasons again, but we’re sure there will be plenty more as the weeks go on. Yesterday, Bolts management realized that after getting man-handled by the Sens in their opening two games, that they needed […]

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Ferguson Finds Job. There is a God.

Despite everyone saying it was going to happen, we here at PTH remained unconvinced that John Ferguson Junior, the former GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, would ever find a job again, at least not one that didn’t involve distributing shopping carts to new arrivals at the local Wal-Mart.  Then this:
On Saturday the Sharks added […]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Rumor of the Day

Since we’re talking KHL so much lately, why not a bit more?
Reports are indicating that another NHLer is Russia-bound this season, but not a player. Former Atlanta Thrashers head coach Bob Hartley is rumored to be headed to become coach of Avangard Omsk. If that team sounds familiar it’s because they were the same team […]

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Tortorella’s New Gig

OK maybe one of our favorite recently-fired NHL coaches didn’t get a new job behind a bench, but he did manage to get himself a new gig, and it ain’t that shabby. Long-time Lightning coach John Tortorella was well known for his Stanley Cup run, his temper and his hilarious inability to mince words. Reporters […]

Friday, September 5th, 2008

5 Coaches On The Brink

Insane, isn’t it? The season hasn’t even started – hell, training camp either – and here’s PTH already jumping the gun on which coaches may be thrown overboard if they don’t get their ship pointing in the right direction (i.e.: away from Port Suckage). In the last few years we saw the Leafs, Senators, Thrashers […]

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008