Bruce "Ron Wilson About to be Fired" Garrioch

via J.P. @ Japers' Rink; Bruce Garrioch thinks Ron Wilson isn't long behind the bench in Toronto.

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So we are going to fire our coach after 3 games?

You can’t use last year as a marker as it was a year that we were obviously not going to compete… so… umm.. yeah.

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by JohnnyG on Oct 7, 2009 1:56 PM EDT reply actions

Chicago did with Savard last year.
Just saying

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions

difference is,

savard was a rotten coach that had a cup contender and couldn’t get any results. wilson is pretty much the exact opposite of savard.

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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 7, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Chicago was not a cup contender when the season started last year.

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Really? Most things I read them had them as a Top contender in the West, maybe not the overall pick to come out of the conference but at least be a top contender.

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by JohnnyG on Oct 7, 2009 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Not last year. 07-08 they missed the playoffs but were young, up and coming. The question marks were still there, I would have hardly called them a cup contender.

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions

I didn’t say cup contender, but they were expected to make some noise in the conference and make a dent into the playoffs.

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by JohnnyG on Oct 7, 2009 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions

I know you didn’t, sergei did tho

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Also

they had some guy named Joel Quenneville waiting in the wings

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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 7, 2009 7:49 PM EDT up reply actions

don’t put words in my mouth. okay, maybe that’s what i thought. i thought they were thinking cup run at the time and savard wasn’t getting any results. kind of semantics though as it’s a fine line and we’re essentially arguing the same point, no?

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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 8, 2009 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions

either way

Savard was still thrown under the bus in a way that Burke would never do.

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by Karina on Oct 7, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Garrioch really steps out on a limb with this beauty:

I just don’t get the feeling he is going to be behind the Toronto bench forever

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by mf37 on Oct 7, 2009 1:58 PM EDT reply actions

I disagree. We don’t know for sure that Ron Wilson won’t live forever, and we don’t know for sure that Ron Wilson then won’t continue coaching forever.

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by Chemmy on Oct 7, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Ron Wilson could be immortal, but what if he goes home for a snack or maybe a shower, he won’t be behind the Leaf bench then will he?

That Garrioch’s got it figured out.

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by mf37 on Oct 7, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions

I saw MLSE install a mini fridge behind the bench.

There’s probably a toilet back there. There’s a Ron Wilson lookalike for away games.

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by Chemmy on Oct 7, 2009 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions

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by PLAYOFFS!!!1 on Oct 7, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Garrioch, June 1, 2019:

“See? Told ya!”

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by 1967ers on Oct 7, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Malkin to the Kings!!!1 e5.

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by Sergei Puckizin on Oct 7, 2009 2:00 PM EDT reply actions

None of this would have ever happened if Wilson had just started Gerber in Ottawa like Garrioch wanted him too.

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by Down Goes Brown on Oct 7, 2009 2:06 PM EDT reply actions

wait, what?

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions

You need to read DGB’s posts on Garrioch. They are great.

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by RepressedOptimism on Oct 7, 2009 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I do read them. Must of forgot that one

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Garrioch had a tantrum when Wilson didn’t start Gerber for the game in Ottawa last year. Presumably he already had a great column written and had to scrap it.

And now he has the gonads to accuse Wilson of having a “meltdown”. Takes one to know one.

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by Down Goes Brown on Oct 7, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Ahhh yes forgot all about that

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Wait, what?

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 2:09 PM EDT reply actions

REPLY FAIL!

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by leafer1984 on Oct 7, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions

WTF Does This Even Mean?

l John Tavares plays his first game on Canadian soil at Scotiabank Place tomorrow. Wayne Gretky played his last game on Canadian soil. How is that for building up the rookie?

by Godd Till on Oct 7, 2009 2:33 PM EDT reply actions

It means

Garrioch is a moron.

But we knew that before he wrote that crap.

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by RepressedOptimism on Oct 7, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions

wow

I really can’t make any sense of that statement.

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by Karina on Oct 7, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions

I can’t really be bothered giving it much thought.

by JP Nikota on Oct 7, 2009 11:59 PM EDT up reply actions

i THINK I know what he means
“Tavares plays his first game in canada in the same building where gretzky played his last, wow, this must be pressure inducing for the youngin”

who did the pens get for Malkin BTW?

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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 7, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions

The Penguins traded regular Evgeni Malkin to themselves and then awarded him the Conn Smythe.

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by Chemmy on Oct 7, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes, lots of pressure… Tavares was what, 9 years old when Gretzky played his last game?

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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 7, 2009 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Frig

I’ve been pissy all day. There’s nothing worse than losing to the Sens

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by Curt S on Oct 7, 2009 3:51 PM EDT reply actions

Garrioch is a dumbass.

That is all.

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by stucky on Oct 7, 2009 4:38 PM EDT reply actions

jesus, this makes Cox and berger look like Bob MacKenzie and Darren Dregar

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by Matt_Roberts on Oct 7, 2009 4:56 PM EDT reply actions

In his defense,

he does work in Ottawa. Ron Wilson has had his job for slightly over a full season now. One would expect Garrioch to find that kind of patience for a coach exorbitant, given his frame of reference.

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by puckurgently on Oct 7, 2009 7:39 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs

heheh

rec’d.

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by Karina on Oct 7, 2009 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions