Patrick Roy made the news during his first-ever NHL game coaching. He did it with his fire while sticking up for his players, but where has that fire been this year?
So as a coach, I got kicked out of the first hockey game of my life over the weekend (I promise it ties in).
One of my players was hit with a terrible, intentional knee that it turns out tore his ACL, MCL and some of the tendons to his knee cap. I had an honestly polite conversation with the referee who was looking right at it, and he clearly did not understand that the onus of a check is always on the checker to make a clean hit (think of Tyson Barrie trying to jump out of the way of Matt Cooke).