“I look at it this way, if I’m leaving the organization, it makes me happy that these guys are talking about accountability, and I’ll tell you why, because we had lots of talks on it,” Granato said. “I can punish you all day long, which everybody says hold accountable. But the real question is, ‘Are you accountable?’ Do you need to be punished or are you an accountable person? … So if I made the next coach’s job easier, I’m happy for that. Because I love these guys as people and players and I want to see them be successful.”
Well worth the read. And a tip: use reader mode in your phone.
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Pre-read impression..
It’s so easy to make completely unfair judgements about this quote and how it seems to say what most Granato critics arrived at: he didn’t know how to make the team buy in enough.
Now to read the piece and see how / whether more context changes how this quote looks…
Post-read impression…
As nice and thoughtful, sensitive, and intelligent as I thought. But my God, not NHL HC material based on the quotes.
The question that lingers for me after reading is how do a GM and his team miss such remarkably low self-confidence in coaching candidate when it’s this near the surface, when Granato speaks so openly about it?
Anyway, all that.
Don’s last word salad regarding Buffalo.
Those exit interviews were damning to the type of coach he is, and this just further backs his own lack of accountability. It reminds me of when Michael Scott declared bankruptcy.
If he had lots of talks about accountability then he didn’t even think they were a group that held themselves accountable. So of fucking course they had to be held to a standard, which is how a group becomes accountable (can we please start calling it disciplined instead because I’m getting fed up with this word) in the first place.
Thank god they are bringing in a new coach, I wouldn’t be able to stand listening to another season of this.