The New York Rangers have announced the hirings of Bob Woods and John Stevens to serve as assistant coaches on the staff of their American Hockey League affiliate Hartford Wolf Pack.
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Again, kind of same idea here, having these former players, come back around and, and Mike, do you think that this is gonna be good for helping to build a Rangers culture that, certainly seems to be lacking and, and could use sort of that, that veteran presence there?
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I always thinks that, think it’s good to have players ex- you know, players with a lot of championship pedigree like Quick, who won two Stanley Cups, and he’s gonna be a h- I think he’s a, a, a no doubt Hall of Famer
The only concern I have about him, you know, I don’t think he’s gonna be the goaltending coach where he’s working with young goaltenders
But Jonathan Quick was an unorthodox goaltender
He wasn’t a cookie cutter type of guy
He was a f- sort of like in the Tim Thomas school, sort of flopping around sometimes
But he was great, and then like, like Dominik Hasek
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They, they were unorthodox, but they were fantastic
If he’s working with goaltenders in terms of the nuts and bolts, I’d be a little concerned, but I think that probably he’s there as somebody who’s just gonna oversee
And Brassard, everything I’ve heard about him is that he was one of these players that everybody said, “This guy is gonna be a coach,” or, “This guy is gonna be in management ’cause he’s so sharp.”
So these, these hirings by, Chris Drury make a lot of sense, which is a departure from the usual MO of Chris Drury
