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Maybe Crawford and Patrick Roy could team up as coaches for the American Gladiators on TV

I guees you have to have a certificate in early childhood education to coach these days. Did he make the youngins cry? Boy, Dick Irvin Sr. and Eddie Shore must be spinning in their graves.

Easy POP...Lets remember this is the same fool that decided Bourgue was a better choice than the Greatest goal scorer of all-time to use as his top 5 shoot-out candidates with everything on the line for Gold.
Never had much use for Crawford after that & figured the Hockey Gods would catch up to him. Especially in L.A!

Crawford's time has passed....I hope he doesn't get recycled somewhere else.

Something happen to Crawford in between his days as the Avs coach and now. His career seems to have fallen off the tracks and he can't get it back on.

I think he needs some time away from the game to recharge and refocus.

Something happen to Crawford in between his days as the Avs coach and now
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Yeah...He Dissed #99. Stuff like that is out of the hands of mere mortals when it comes to payback!

Easy POP...Lets remember this is the same fool that decided Bourgue was a better choice than the Greatest goal scorer of all-time to use as his top 5 shoot-out candidates with everything on the line for Gold.
Never had much use for Crawford after that & figured the Hockey Gods would catch up to him. Especially in L.A!
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HAHAHA.... As a card carrying hater of such stuff (shootouts AND pros at the Limpics) I laughed my bum off at that. I wasn't watching of course but I read all about it in the "Sunday papers"....


Crawford is the kind of coach wh porves that anybody can coach a great, stacked team to a big win. I like to think of him as a the Barry Switzer of the NHL.

"Crawford is the kind of coach wh porves that anybody can coach a great, stacked team to a big win. I like to think of him as a the Barry Switzer of the NHL."

Agreed. I always thought of him to be a tad overrated.

Gretzky's forte was not breakaways. He blew more than he made.

Limpic love-in Gold means nothing. No hate invlolved. More like an all star game. Too many teammates on the other guys.

1972 was the real McCoy. Cross pollination was non existant. I don't even think Vaclav Nedomansky was over here yet. Maybe in the WHA?

Actually, bostongm, Hartley had Hejduk, Tanguay, Drury, Bourque and Blake in '01. Crawford's roster for the '96 Cup was Roy, Sakic, Forsberg, Foote, Keane, Lemieux, Kamenski, Ozolinsh, etc. Still stacked, no doubt, but the Young Guns came in a couple years later.

No biggie. Just double proof that a less-than-mediocre coach can take a stacked team to a title. (Do the names Phil Jackson or Mike Shanahan ring a bell?)

Phil Jackson a less-than-mediocre coach? WOW!!

so fire crawford yea Right they should fire lombardi sorry **** for not going after the right players before the season even started like a legitamite GOALIE AND THOULD HAVE TRADED BLAKE LAST YEAR because hes not even worth 6 million a year were TIRED of being a LOSING FRANCHISE ON THE WEST COAST ALMPST 40 YEARS OF MISERY GO DUCKS

Very informative article. I hadn't previously heard that the Kings had a bunch of little 'kids' on their team. No wonder they finished in the toilet. The poor little guys probably just needed some milk and cookies and missed their mommies.

Umm..he was fired because he sucks!