SEDALIA — Patrick Roy was a players’ coach, a man virtually everyone would run through a wall for. Roy may not be on the Christmas-card list of former Avalanche forwards P.A. Parenteau and Daniel Briere, among others, but it appears that Colorado’s returning cast will miss the Hockey Hall of Fame goalie who abruptly ended his three-year stint behind the Avs’ bench Aug. 11.
“I enjoyed playing for Patty,” Avs forward Blake Comeau said Wednesday before teeing off at the 19th Joe Sakic Celebrity Classic at Sanctuary Golf Course. “I thought he was fair, held everybody accountable and to a high standard.