The black balling of NHL coach Ted Nolan is perhaps one of the great mysteries in all of pro sports. Seems to me this guy is among the best coaches in hockey. Everywhere he turns up he manages to take a struggling, mediocre team and fashion them into a competitive unit. Yet, no one hired him for all this time?
In 2011, he took over as coach of the Latvia hockey team leading them to an 8th place finish at 2014 Olympics including a nerve racking 2-1 loss to Canada in the quarter-finals.
In November of 2013 he was named interim coach (because he has earned enough respect to get a full-time fricken job) of the Buffalo Sabres (a team he coached from 1995-97) and guess what? All of a sudden, despite all the turmoil, he has them playing hard, competitive hockey.
Give Ted Nolan to the Montreal Canadiens and watch what he does with them.
Oh, right. He doesn't meet the criteria of speaking French.
Speaking of stupid thinking....
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"On December 16, 2005, Nolan was the victim of racial harassment during a Wildcats road game against the Chicoutimi Saguenéens. Fans in the stands shouted racial slurs at him and directed gestures such as the "tomahawk chop" and shooting a bow and arrow towards him as he stood behind the Moncton bench. Fans continued to taunt Nolan outside the arena after the game as he boarded the team bus with his players. The incident, he said later, left him shaking with anger and humiliation. The fans' behavior was condemned both by the QMJHL commissioner and Saguenéens management, the latter of which issued a formal apology to Nolan. As a result of the events that transpired in Chicoutimi, he referred to the Saguenay Region as being the "Alabama" of the QMJHL. After, he also had criticized the Gatineau Olympiques organisation for putting the 'Tomahawk Chop' song, which he said was racist. Because of the incident, the QMJHL launched a new anti-discrimination policy that covers everyone involved with the circuit, from team and league officials, to players and fans."
These are the folks the Parti Quebecois pander to.
Of course, he's absofuckinglutely right about the Alabama reference.
That's all these critters are. Stuck with a mentality that harkens back to the deep American south made popular in movies like To Kill A Mocking Bird.
But there's a disturbing difference. American southerners never claimed to be sophisticated, tolerant, or open-minded. The PQ claim to be an enlightened bunch. So delusional they are (and I repeat this) Lisee thinks he's Thomas Jefferson. More, as I've said, like George Wallace.
Fucking PQ.
In 2011, he took over as coach of the Latvia hockey team leading them to an 8th place finish at 2014 Olympics including a nerve racking 2-1 loss to Canada in the quarter-finals.
In November of 2013 he was named interim coach (because he has earned enough respect to get a full-time fricken job) of the Buffalo Sabres (a team he coached from 1995-97) and guess what? All of a sudden, despite all the turmoil, he has them playing hard, competitive hockey.
Give Ted Nolan to the Montreal Canadiens and watch what he does with them.
Oh, right. He doesn't meet the criteria of speaking French.
Speaking of stupid thinking....
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"On December 16, 2005, Nolan was the victim of racial harassment during a Wildcats road game against the Chicoutimi Saguenéens. Fans in the stands shouted racial slurs at him and directed gestures such as the "tomahawk chop" and shooting a bow and arrow towards him as he stood behind the Moncton bench. Fans continued to taunt Nolan outside the arena after the game as he boarded the team bus with his players. The incident, he said later, left him shaking with anger and humiliation. The fans' behavior was condemned both by the QMJHL commissioner and Saguenéens management, the latter of which issued a formal apology to Nolan. As a result of the events that transpired in Chicoutimi, he referred to the Saguenay Region as being the "Alabama" of the QMJHL. After, he also had criticized the Gatineau Olympiques organisation for putting the 'Tomahawk Chop' song, which he said was racist. Because of the incident, the QMJHL launched a new anti-discrimination policy that covers everyone involved with the circuit, from team and league officials, to players and fans."
These are the folks the Parti Quebecois pander to.
Of course, he's absofuckinglutely right about the Alabama reference.
That's all these critters are. Stuck with a mentality that harkens back to the deep American south made popular in movies like To Kill A Mocking Bird.
But there's a disturbing difference. American southerners never claimed to be sophisticated, tolerant, or open-minded. The PQ claim to be an enlightened bunch. So delusional they are (and I repeat this) Lisee thinks he's Thomas Jefferson. More, as I've said, like George Wallace.
Fucking PQ.
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