Sportsnet 590 THE FAN: Elliotte Friedman on the Jeff Marek Show on the Carolina Hurricanes and Rod Brind'Amour situation.
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Marek: “Now we wonder what's next for the Carolina Hurricanes. And I'm going to throw a few, a few, a few positions, titles and situations at you and tell me which one you think is the most stressful.”
Friedman: “K.”
Marek: “Coach…”
Friedman: “Yes.”
Marek: “The boss…”
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Friedman: “Wait there.
Marek: “Yes.”
Friedman: “It's a coach. It's a coach. Like everything else, I, and this is probably the only situation I can say. Look, you're not a good coach without good players.
And you know, I remember talking to Peter DeBoer about that. Peter DeBoer, as you know, was a very successful Junior coach and his first NHL job was in Florida. Also, the Panthers back then were not the Panthers as we know them now. And you know, he talked about how. as you know, you talked about how, you know, I believe I'm a good coach, I believe I know what needs to be done. But he learned that if you don't have the infrastructure and the players, you don't have a quality team, it doesn't matter what kind of coach you are. You are not just a winner. So I always cut the players first.
But this is a situation where I believe the coach really sets the tone for the organization. And I think the Hurricanes know that. I think they know it's a very different situation without Brind'Amour.
He's married in the area and you know, he's going to have to convince people that he wants to go there. I, even with everything that has happened, you know, a lot of people Brind'Amour don't think he wants to go there.
But the whole tone and tenor surrounding the Brind'amour reform movement is missing. And of course, I don't think you can change a coach with any other team in the NHL and experience the kind of seismic change that would create an organization if Brind'Amour left Carolina.
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So I think that's the first thing that they have to solve and figure out. And as I said, people believe that it will happen, but there are a lot of people, whether they throw a random party or throw, whatever you want to call it, some kind of inability to believe that it has reached this point.
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