I just don't get the Guenin thing from Roy AT ALL. I was in the sixth row, behind the net and was watching Guenin closely. Very slow foot speed, at the NHL level and usually out of position. Top that off with the constant chatter when he should simply shut up and focus on doing his job.
Respect Roy and he knows a lot more about hockey than I, but something is not right. Its not like Guenin is bad at the finer points of his position, he lacks D 101 skills too.
Age-old coachthink, especially those with that old-school mentality: Coaches just love guys who go out there and sacrifice the body blocking shots, as opposed to the guy who doesn't block shots, but has decent hands/wheels and can skate it or pass it out of the zone. One guy's mistakes are far, far more glaring than the other's. It doesn't seem obvious to most who just watch the game that the guy blocking shots with hands of stone is having to do so because he never has the puck, whereas the other guy is in essence a better defensive asset because he can get the puck out of the zone, which is a riskier but far more effective form of shot prevention.
I think the thing that kills me most about Guenin is that when he was focused on flattening opposing forwards, he was halfway effective. When they changed his game and turned him into a floating shot-blocking zeppelin, he went from somewhat useful plug to worst d-man in the league. Roy wouldn't dare tell Cody McLeod to quit hitting people, not sure why he and the assistants told Guenin to do so.
What's most frustrating about Roy and his approach to Guenin is that he KNOWS Guenin is a liability on skates. He shelters him throughout the whole game and outright benches him when things get tight. Yet game after game there he is...now that there are obviously better options on the team, he's still there and I just don't get why Roy is making his own job that much harder by sticking with a guy he clearly knows is no good.