tony-granato Stories - Fear The Fin
Meet The New Avalanche Brass
I'm at work, so I haven't been able to listen to any of these yet, but I'll assume they're still worth sharing: Avalanche press conference introducing Joe Sacco and Sylvain Lefebvre ...and some various radio interviews on The Fan (104.3 FM) Greg Sherman Sylvain Lefebvre Joe Sacco Peter McNab and...
The Sherman Experiment (With Shiny New Link!)
The Colorado Avalanche have found their new general manager and axed a half-dozen members of the team's senior staff. The new G.M. is not Patrick Roy, who reportedly declined an offer to take on the dual roles of G.M. and head coach. More surprisingly, the new G.M. isn't Craig Billington either...
The Good, The Bad...And The Ugly
Pierre Lacroix (pictured above) makes some "sweeping" changes... Well, it finally happened. After months of speculation, public embarrassments, Soviet-bloc silence and even one frightening rumor about Pierre McGuire, Napoleon has finally started to get his army together for the upcoming invasion...
NHL News: Colorado Avalanche fire Tony Granato
Sportsnet.ca is reporting that Tony Granato was let go as head coach of the Avalanche today as part of a major house cleaning: The full story from sportsnet. The list includes head coach Tony Granato, assistant coaches Jacques Cloutier and Dave Barr, goaltending coach Jeff Hackett, Assistant to...
A Fine Mess
A little over a month ago, a day after the worst season in Avalanche history came to a merciful end, Pierre Lacroix took action. He fired Francois Giguere and handed the GM baton to...himself, ostensibly on a temporary basis. He let everyone know that he would be fixing things, tout de...
Patrick Roy offered Colorado Avalanche coaching job
This has been a relatively quiet offseason so far for the Dallas Stars. For the Colorado Avalanche? Not so much. Despite not even having a General Manager and despite still having a coach on the payroll, former Avs goaltender (and NHL Hall of Fame member) Patrick Roy has been offered the job as...
For The Record
We've discussed a lot about the fact that Tony Granto and Joel Quenneville have each had to deal with a considerable number of injuries during their tenure behind the Avalanche bench. Just for kicks, here's the record for both Granato and Quenneville with and without Joe Sakic and Paul Stastny...
Final Grade: Tony Granato
Joined Team: Tony Granato has been with the Colorado Avalanche as either a coach or an assistant coach since the 2002-2003 season. He was named head coach (again) last May. Disclaimer: Of all the grades I'm going to do this year, evaluating a coach is the one that I am least qualified to do....
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