Jeremy Laura: Interview with Griffins head coach Dan Watson - the difference

Good stuff. Nice, digestable 20 minute interview.

Good stuff. Nice, digestable 20 minute interview.
- Trevor_Neufeld_

Thank you for that. I can’t believe how generous the coach was with his time and didn’t shy away from anything.

Sorry am not and never was an AHL Person. I’ve watched the NHL wannabees who can’t make the cut, and was never entertained. Glad you enjoyed your interview with Coach Watson. Unless he’s got Bowman DNA traits, I hope he never comes to Detroit. I’ve still got a terrible taste of AHL’s Blashill in my mouth that has developed into an equally bad aftertaste of Lalonde.

Please allow me an analogy to hyperbolize The Circus known as The Detroit Red Wings.
In 64 AD Roman Emperor Nero played the Lyre ( a mini Harp), the fiddle was not invented till a thousand years later. But Nero did fiddle with the Lyre as Rome burned.

If you say that someone is fiddling while Rome burns, you mean that they are not dealing with a difficult situation but instead are doing useless things or pretending that nothing is wrong.
Yzerman isn’t playing the Lyre, but he has certainly done useless things and without question is passively fiddling away while Motor City smoulders to an unrecognizable destruction.

Coach Jim Montgomery has been fired in Boston, he is only the first as the Coaching Carousel of Hot Seats begin to simmer and Yzerman continues to uselessly fiddle….
Doing absolutely nothing as the Thanksgiving benchmark for playoffs is all but upon us. Looks like It’s TANK TIME again.

it was cool to see you in the video, Jeremy. I’ve never seen you before. Now I have a face and a voice to the comments! Keep up the great work.

Sorry am not and never was an AHL Person. I’ve watched the NHL wannabees who can’t make the cut, and was never entertained. Glad you enjoyed your interview with Coach Watson. Unless he’s got Bowman DNA traits, I hope he never comes to Detroit. I’ve still got a terrible taste of AHL’s Blashill in my mouth that has developed into an equally bad aftertaste of Lalonde.

Please allow me an analogy to hyperbolize The Circus known as The Detroit Red Wings.
In 64 AD Roman Emperor Nero played the Lyre ( a mini Harp), the fiddle was not invented till a thousand years later. But Nero did fiddle with the Lyre as Rome burned.

If you say that someone is fiddling while Rome burns, you mean that they are not dealing with a difficult situation but instead are doing useless things or pretending that nothing is wrong.
Yzerman isn’t playing the Lyre, but he has certainly done useless things and without question is passively fiddling away while Motor City smoulders to an unrecognizable destruction.

Coach Jim Montgomery has been fired in Boston, he is only the first as the Coaching Carousel of Hot Seats begin to simmer and Yzerman continues to uselessly fiddle….
Doing absolutely nothing as the Thanksgiving benchmark for playoffs is all but upon us. Looks like It’s TANK TIME again.
- GeoffY

Agree on the need for leadership, but I think good coaches can and do come up through the AHL. I think what Montgomery is doing would change the culture, but it’s absolutely fine to disagree. His change in philosophy was a nice eye opener for me personally. Spitting chiclets threw out a hypothetical of Fedorov coming to Detroit, I like coach Q, something needs to change

it was cool to see you in the video, Jeremy. I’ve never seen you before. Now I have a face and a voice to the comments! Keep up the great work.
- NC_Scott

Thanks for that! I got the chance to talk to a podcaster/youtuber and what I learn in a conversation is so much different than a write up. I’ve reached out to a variety of hockey personalities and really want to hear the people involved talk about what they do day to day. Massive grind of people who never stop working!

Nice to hear of a successful team that will supply future successful Red Wings! Watson is in a good place right now, training youngsters to be a team and win together.

Sorry am not and never was an AHL Person. I’ve watched the NHL wannabees who can’t make the cut, and was never entertained. Glad you enjoyed your interview with Coach Watson. Unless he’s got Bowman DNA traits, I hope he never comes to Detroit. I’ve still got a terrible taste of AHL’s Blashill in my mouth that has developed into an equally bad aftertaste of Lalonde.

Please allow me an analogy to hyperbolize The Circus known as The Detroit Red Wings.
In 64 AD Roman Emperor Nero played the Lyre ( a mini Harp), the fiddle was not invented till a thousand years later. But Nero did fiddle with the Lyre as Rome burned.

If you say that someone is fiddling while Rome burns, you mean that they are not dealing with a difficult situation but instead are doing useless things or pretending that nothing is wrong.
Yzerman isn’t playing the Lyre, but he has certainly done useless things and without question is passively fiddling away while Motor City smoulders to an unrecognizable destruction.

Coach Jim Montgomery has been fired in Boston, he is only the first as the Coaching Carousel of Hot Seats begin to simmer and Yzerman continues to uselessly fiddle….
Doing absolutely nothing as the Thanksgiving benchmark for playoffs is all but upon us. Looks like It’s TANK TIME again.
- GeoffY

Completely writing off the entire AHL as a pipeline for NHL coaches because two guys didn't work out to your satisfaction, despite the fact that one of those two guys was an NHL assistant for four years before Detroit hired him, and despite the fact that a significant number of very good current NHL coaches were good AHL coaches beforehand (Cooper, Bednar, Cassidy, DeBoer, Laviolette ...) is not a very well-considered take.