Matt et Blake rencontrent l’ancien Canuck Keith Ballard pour une entrevue émouvante remplie d’introspection, d’honnêteté et du point de vue d’un ex-joueur qui vient d’avoir 40 ans. De ses débuts dans un pavillon de pêche près de la frontière entre le Minnesota et l’Ontario, à un rencontre avec les #99 et #4 en Arizona, à son séjour à Vancouver qui ne s’est pas déroulé comme prévu, Ballard nous donne une évaluation honnête de sa vie et de son passage au hockey. Ballard a lutté contre des commotions cérébrales, tant à Vancouver qu’à la retraite. Il nous emmène à travers ces luttes, qui suscitent encore de l’émotion. Il est maintenant entraîneur de hockey pour les jeunes, et tous ceux qui entraînent le sport voudront entendre ce qu’il dit des trois différents groupes d’âge qu’il enseigne et ce qu’il essaie de leur enseigner. Présenté par @CapItMedia (https://lnk.to/Cap-it) Écoutez et abonnez-vous au podcast : https://lnk.to/SP456 Envoyez-nous vos commentaires par SMS : 778-402-9680 https://twitter.com /sekeresandprice 🔗 : https://linktr.ee/SekeresAndPrice https://twitter.com/sekeresandprice https://www.sekeresandprice.com/ https://www.rinkwidevancouver.com/
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I'd take Ballard back over Hughes…… Superstar D-Man with zero goals halfway through the season?…. and leading the NHL in giveaways.
The refs fucked us and league wanted Boston to win. They gave us I believe 8pp in 7 games and changed the way game was called in finals. Luongo sucked in Boston although was stellar at home and Sedins let us down and didn't produce, probably because injuries but also because weren't given pp's like should've been. Robbed of a cup by the league.
Watching Gretzky coach the Coyotes exemplified to me why superstar players usually don't make the best coaches. It's usually the grinders or tough guys who had to scratch and claw their way into the league, sometimes undrafted, who make the best coaches. I'm not saying that no work goes into it when you're a superstar player, but especially if you played in the 70s, 80s and early 90s when defence at the very least was de-emphasized and you yourself never had to play a strong 2 way game, you're probably going to get lost in 2022 and you probably won't identify that well with the majority of your team, who actually have to play a structured style to win. When a superstar player like Elias Pettersson comes back and makes a great defensive play, people notice it because that doesn't happen every day even though it's basically required in today's game to win anything significant. Usually those guys from the 80s and 90s are unfamiliar with systems and how to play with structure, especially if it's their first rodeo. I'm not talking about the Canucks, who due to personnel choices, can't all be Bob Gainey or Rod Langway. They have to play run and gun because it's the only chance they have. I'm talking about a team like the Coyotes who weren't exactly flush with talent and should have had an experienced, defensive minded coach who could teach them to play with structure. Some teams just need a mentor because they have the players in place. Others need a system and a structure because they're not going to score 4 or 5 goals per game.