The Incompetent Keenan
23 April 2008 by Gil
Let’s review the wisdom of Keenan after the demise of the Flames last night.
Apparently it involves not only dressing Anders Eriksson, but using him in key situations, on both the power play and the penalty kill. How is someone bad enough to be a healthy scratch one game and good enough to throw out against Thornton and Co. on a power play the next? Only Keenan knows.
It also involves pulling Miikka Kiprusoff in a 4-2 game with well over a period to go (Curtis Joseph promptly let in a soft wrist shot that finished the Flames off). None of the four goals to that point were Kipper’s fault. Listening to the post-game interviews you could tell there were a lot of players who didn’t think much of Keenan’s decision.
The final straw for me was a third period power-play when the Flames were down 5-3. Who would you expect to see on the ice? Well obviously Jim Vandermeer (at FORWARD!!), David Moss and Anders Eriksson. You know, the snipers.
Well done Keenan. With coaching like you’ve given us it’s a miracle we even made the playoffs. Here’s hoping your ‘existence’ is somewhere far away from Calgary next year.
At least Tanguay’s Gretzky like skill was still available to Flames in this Keenan era…you got to look at the positives.
no keenan, no playoffs. he is the only reason this beer league team made the playoffs anyways.
Brendan, what soccer team do you cheer for? Do the names Souness and Allardyce mean anything to you? Enough said. The Flames need a Keegan revolution.