Could be a 7-game dog-eat-dog series. Though I live 240 miles from the Chinese Communist Party Center, in their territory, I’m hoping Colorado can do something about Vegas. Their coach lives 85 miles south and has so many friends in the area where Rob “Coo Coo” Concannon turned Jared Bednar from career player in the ECHL at Charleston where he became a coach and ran the ladder winning titles in the ECHL to the AHL (Cleveland) and NHL (Colorado) — all without playing in the NHL.
There are now four NHL coaches who came up Concannon’s Ladder — Spencer Carbery (Washington), Ryan Warsofsky (San José), and Cail MacLean (Calgary) all have run through Concannon’s coaching system. Jared Nightingale, the Blackhawks system (Rockford) head coach, was a career assistant (two years at Rockford in fact) before Concannon gave him a chance to move down and be the head coach in Charleston. After a regular-season title, Rockford asked him to be part of the Blackhawks entire rebuild.
Ça sent la coupe.
I wish.
We shall see. I followed the Habs all season. Knew they’re a good team. Didn’t think they’d make it this far in the playoffs because they’re so young. Now that they’ve gone this far I’d really like to see them go all the way or at least in to the finals.