Not sure Gallant was ever going to do the expansion tango again. New York seemed a natural fit for him. You know ... the kind of franchise that will pay a lot, promise you whatever control you want to get you hired and then do absolutely whatever they want and leak bad things about you to the press if you aren't happy about it.
And the Rags even paid for a cab to pick him up at the airport...
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Or, as Keith Olberman put it, Gallant works for Goofus
Drove through Death Valley once in early July. Still smoking then. Each exhale with window down wiped out the AC.
That's a lot of money for a guy who's never actually won anything. Then again, it's New York, so what do you expect I guess.
He won the Memorial Cup in 2011 and the Western Conference in 2018. Other than that, a lot of meh.
Yeah. I'm not saying he's bad or anything, in fact I really like the way Gallant runs a team. But that kind of money is generally reserved for experienced guys with bigger rings than you get from winning the Mem Cup.
Those fit. Lindblom was always going to win the Masterton, like to the point that I'm not sure other teams really mounted much of a campaign for their guys. Rinne looks to be on his way out of Nashville and has done a lot of community work. That's the profile for the way the Clancy has been awarded in recent years.
