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作者: Gretzky    時間: 2005-8-9 05:24 AM     標題: [冰球Major news] Wayne Gretzky 成為 Phoenix Coyotes Head Coach

如果你係hockey fans, this is major news for you...同尤西比奧coach 賓菲加一樣大新聞！

8/8/2005 4:33:39 PM by Canadian Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. (CP) - Coach Gretzky is on the job.

"Today I'm very proud to announce that our sport's greatest player, ambassador and icon, Wayne Gretzky will assume the role as head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes," Coyotes chairman Steve Ellman told a news conference Monday.

Gretzky, who will retain his ownership stake in the NHL team, said he was delighted to step down from the front office to behind the bench.

"I'm really excited to be back in the locker-room and back on the ice," he said. "That's what I love the most and I'm thrilled to be back on the hotseat. I'm looking forward to it."

Ellman said Gretzky would coach the team as part of a deal that also increases Gretzky's ownership stake in the Coyotes.



While he has no pro coaching experience, Gretzky said he will approach it the way he did the game as a player.

"My answer is why not," he asked. "It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going to be a good coach. . . .

"It's kind of ironic when that when I broke in professional hockey at 17, that I was told I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. And now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is well you can't be a good coach because you were a great athlete.

"I wasn't naturally gifted with size or speed. Everything I did in hockey, I worked for. And that's the way I'll be as a coach.

Gretzky said while he had been leaning toward taking the job for several months now, he didn't make the final decision until Saturday night.

And he said while he had not sought advice, veteran NBA coach and executive Pat Riley had told him at the Kentucky Derby how much he would like coaching.

He also said he found "a passion for coaching" while working with his son's softball team.

Gretzky said former Detroit Red Wings associate coach Barry Smith, former Coyotes player Rick Tocchet, and Coyotes interim head coach Rick Bowness will be his assistant coaches.

"I'm ecstatic to have this staff," said Gretzky,

The Great One, who has a multi-year coaching agreement, will remain the team's managing partner.

"I have an investment in the team, an ownership stake in this team and I felt like I was the best person to coach this team," he said.

Smith has been an NHL assistant coach for 17 seasons and won five Stanley Cup titles. He was most recently with Detroit.

Tocchet played 18 NHL seasons, including three with the Coyotes from 1997 to 2000. He was an assistant coach with Colorado leading up to the lockout.

Bowness has been with the Coyotes for six seasons and was named the interim head coach in February 2004, after the Coyotes fired head coach Bob Francis.

Gretzky, who retired from playing in 1999 after 20 NHL seasons, won four Stanley Cups and owns dozens of NHL records, including goals (894), assists (1,963) and points (2,857).

He has already committed to serve as executive director for Team Canada at the Winter Olympics in Turin in February.

The Coyotes have a new $220-million US arena, which they have yet to play a full season in. They moved to the Glendale Arena in December 2003, but they didn't get opportunity to open a season there before the lockout began.
作者: Ticat    時間: 2005-8-9 05:27 AM

i m looking forward to what he can do as a coach
作者: brightlee    時間: 2005-8-9 07:03 AM

Originally posted by Ticat at 2005-8-9 07:27:
i m looking forward to what he can do as a coach
Gretz, I love your photo!!!!

And, I am thinking... what will be happen if Clyde Drexler will be an head coach in NBA?
Mark Bright will be the manager in Premier League?
And Freddie Ljungberg will be the head coach in Sweden International?
=P
Bright
作者: Gretzky    時間: 2005-8-9 08:34 AM

Originally posted by brightlee at 2005-8-9 07:03 AM:

Gretz, I love your photo!!!!

A...
Drexler, even Bird....are not in the same ballpark as Gretzky in their profession....

This guy has one of the best vision in professional sports. Wayne actually reads the ice in a way no one has ever done before. Not only he knows/anticipates where his linemates will be in a few seconds, he predicts where his opponents will be as well (think about goalie). This make him so successful in a sport where speed and space matter so much.

When Gretzky is on....not even Mario Lemeuix can beat him.....

That set him on the stage with Armstrong, Maradonna, MJ and Babe Ruth.....


作者: srfqt1    時間: 2005-8-9 09:23 PM

唔知道佢教波掂唔掂呢
千祈唔好英名盡喪
作者: Gretzky    時間: 2005-8-9 11:39 PM

Originally posted by srfqt1 at 2005-8-9 09:23 PM:
唔知道佢教波掂唔掂呢
千祈唔好英名盡喪
I will be there for his first game as a coach...right here in Vancovuer against the Canucks on Oct 5!
作者: srfqt1    時間: 2005-8-10 12:08 AM

Originally posted by Gretzky at 2005-8-9 11:39 PM:
I will be there for his first game as a coach...right here in Vancovuer against the Canucks on Oct 5!
咁正!
希望佢好像larry bird咁
做球員又得,教又得
作者: kwongt    時間: 2005-8-10 05:37 AM

Originally posted by Gretzky at 2005-8-9 11:39 PM:


I will be there for his first game as a coach...right here in Vancovuer against the Canucks on Oct 5!
你係canucks fans? nhl竟然reinstate返bertuzzi條茅柴....
作者: Gretzky    時間: 2005-8-10 01:15 PM

Originally posted by kwongt at 2005-8-10 05:37 AM:


你係canucks fans? nhl竟然reinstate返bertuzzi條茅柴....
The thing w/ Bert is such sensitive and personal matter now....what's fair? I am pretty embarassed with Bert.

But the timing of the announcement is awful...the league did it 10 minutes (at 4:16pm EDT) before the Gretzky one (at 4:26pm EDT). Such sneaky move!

I am a Canucks fan...but my affection is more attached to the 1994 team than the current one now. The only current player I truly like is Nassy....too bad we won't be able to win the Stanley Cup with Cloutier as the goalie.



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