For the first time in a long time, Don Maloney was able to slack off all summer.
He wasn’t interested in extending his vacation into the winter months.
“I’ve been sitting on my butt for four months,” said Maloney, who was axed in April as GM of the Arizona Coyotes and signed on Wednesday as a pro scout with the Calgary Flames. “I hadn’t missed the draft since I stopped playing, which I think was 1991. And then the free-agency period
“I talked to a lot of people who have been let go over the past two or three years — George McPhee, Dave Nonis, Ray Shero, it happens to everyone — and to a man, they were saying, ‘Take your time.