Confirmed with Link: Hawerchuk a guest coach @ Jets development camp
- Thread starter Arthur Fonzarelli
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Would be great to see Ducky work his way into the front office with the Jets. Assistant with the AHL team to start?
Watching him in person behind the bench with the Colts, the dude is still very passionate about hockey - not that it reflects on Noel's coaching prowess, but the on-bench attitude and reactions are 180 degrees from each other.
I agree! Time to link some of our brightest stars of the past to the organisation. Would definitely bring a lot of class and do wonders to promote the organisation and city to our young prospects and to entice potential UFAs..
Why not assistant to Paul Maurice ? We haven't hired a replacement for Perry Pearn yet have we ?
Sweech
Oh When the Spurs
We already have 2 assistants, which is the typical amount an NHL team would have.
Chevy also stated we may not hire another assistant to replace Pearn per se. Pearn was brought in to help improve our crappy special teams, they didn't improve, we fired him and now it looks like Maurice believes he can do that job (or have Pascal Vincent do it) well enough without having to bring another coach in. Plus I don't imagine we'd be bringing ducky in to teach special teams.
Koonta
The Boss Wears White
I think this all leads to Dale Hawerchuk being the first Jets 1.0 player to be officially honoured by the Jets 2.0 and rightfully so in my opinion.
Guardian17
Strong & Free
Puck Hawerchuck
Registered User
I would have to agree. Awesome move by TNSE as he knows how to teach and get the best out of young players and he also links the new generation of Jets prospects to our old Jets. Win-win!
King Woodballs
Captain Awesome
Not that hawerchuk couldn't do a good job
But this thinking hasn't worked out well for Edmonton.
Yukon Joe
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Warhead77
Jets4Life
Is TNSE hiding Hawerchuk??
No interview with him on the Jets website or any of the main news outlets.
Him showing up to be a guest coach at the Jets development camp is akin to Gretzky showing up at an Oilers or Kings camp.
Where is the coverage on this?
No interview with him on the Jets website or any of the main news outlets.
Him showing up to be a guest coach at the Jets development camp is akin to Gretzky showing up at an Oilers or Kings camp.
Where is the coverage on this?
There may not have been any planning involved. He could have just been at his cottage and someone said, "Hey, Dale is in town, lets ask him if he wants to come in and talk to our guys".
Maybe Dale asked them not to make a big deal of this.
Hawerchuck was in many ways like Selanne - shy, understated superstar who absolutely fit Winnipeg like a glove. Learned to be a great pro. He was extremely hurt when Mike Smith traded him out of Winnipeg. He was very very close to signing back in Winnipeg late in his career, but it didn't happen, and the hip finished him shortly thereafter.
Had lunch with him (and a couple of glasses of wine) just before the Thrashers were purchased. He was in Winnipeg for an event, and he was really excited and hopeful the NHL would return. He was coaching some junior b hockey at the time, and you could really tell that his passion for the game would,lead him up to a higher level. It was wonderful chatting about the old times, and he was just fantastic and knowledgeable about the game (even talking power play systems!). Would love to see him coaching in the NHl someday
Warhead77
Jets4Life
Could be. But I doubt that.
This could be another TNSE smothering/removal/neglect of anything Jets 1.0 related because they want to "promote their brand" at this time.
Could be. But I doubt that.
This could be another TNSE smothering/removal/neglect of anything Jets 1.0 related because they want to "promote their brand" at this time.
Isn't that a little too cynical? If that was the case, why would they have him at all?
Koonta
The Boss Wears White
Dale would be free to talk to the press, perhaps he doesn't want the attention. If the media doesn't really mention this in their papers then that's on them.
Warhead77
Jets4Life
I don't think its cynical at all. TNSE have made this clear on a number of fronts. They are promoting/selling the Jets 2.0 brand. That means no showcase of Jets 1.0 videos, pictures on the website or any honouring of past greats. They will even go so far as to not have any Jets 1.0 alums interviewed for their website. As there have been a few occasions where Jets 1.0 alums attended games in the past 3 years.
Warhead77
Jets4Life
I suspect TNSE is instructing media to stay away from Hawerchuk as it relates to this development camp - because he represents Jets 1.0.
I mean, this is an organization that told Chris Jericho to remove his Hawerchuk jersey and put on a Jets 2.0 uni so that they could interview him during a game.
Gump Hasek
Spleen Merchant
I disagree. Randy Gilhen was also a guest coach last season. Neither Gilhen nor Hawerchuk are employees of the team - so of course there is little focus offered by the media toward them.
The Jets will apparently honour the old team at the Heritage Classic game that will eventually be held here. The preliminary plans IIRC have the alumni team to be largely constructed of old Jets (along with a few former Moose players such as Keane & Roy). It seems to me they aren't intentionally ignoring the past hockey history of the city; it appears they conversely just plan to honour it at the proper time.
I get that. I was talking about in this case...can you answer me that if they were that freaked out about any and all past, why have Dale Hawerchuck within 500 miles of MTS Iceplex, let alone on the ice with the players?
If you want to hear from Hawerchuck, then blame the vaunted Winnipeg media for not talking to him.
Koonta
The Boss Wears White
Yeah, that is absolutely way too cynical. Does anybody else wonder why of all the numbers worn by former Jets 1.0 players that number 10 has never been handed out to a current player, that both Little and Setoguchi changed from 10 to other numbers. I feel they are gearing up to honour Dale Hawerchuk in some way probably to coincide with a heritage jersey. Hawerchuk will the first to he honoured as he should be.
I mean c'mon I'm sure TNSE were like " let's invite this former Jets 1.0 player to help coach the prospects in front of a full Ice Plex but let's not let the media get a hold of him because that might cause some confusion in our brand loyalty"
Moe Mantha
Registered User
Plus TNSE needs to be called on their glaring lack of attention in policing this.
They released the original logos in the pin sets last year, with the titles "Heritage Logo 1979-1990" and "Heritage Logo 1990-1996", proving their attempts to ignore the past. This is just another slap in the face to us longtime Winnipeg Jets fans.
Oh. Wait.. hashtag end sarcasm.
They released the original logos in the pin sets last year, with the titles "Heritage Logo 1979-1990" and "Heritage Logo 1990-1996", proving their attempts to ignore the past. This is just another slap in the face to us longtime Winnipeg Jets fans.
Oh. Wait.. hashtag end sarcasm.
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