Roy Follows Typical Pattern..

First of all let me preface this by apologizing for the delay in getting this story out. I went through many emotions personally as I attempted to sort my thoughts about the situation into an understandable structure. That being said lets dive into it.

On Friday August 12th Patrick Roy of the Colorado Avalanche has decided with roughly three weeks left until camps start up that he will not continue coaching the team. Here is a quote from former Coach Roy to the media

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""I have thought long and hard over the course of the summer about how I might improve this team to give it the depth it needs and bring it to a higher level. To achieve this, the vision of the coach and VP-Hockey Operations needs to be perfectly aligned with that of the organization. He must also have a say in the decisions that impact the team's performance. These conditions are not currently met.""

 When The first announced the signing of Coach Roy anyone who has been a fan for the past couple of decades would know exactly how this was going to one day end. The unfortunate part is that I expected enough respect of the organization to be shown that it would happen right after a season ended not right before one started.

Roy has all ways been a fiery competitor. At one point we should really thank him for his personally that lead to the eruption that fateful evening with the Montreal Canadians when Roy stated loudly that would be the last game he would ever play for that team. That eruption lead to the Avalanche swinging the deal of a lifetime to land him and bring the organization two Stanly Cup Championships over the next few years.

This time around we start to have a bit of a taste of what the Canadians fans may have felt like on the other side of things.

While the "official" story is pretty short and concise (Link here via Hockeywriters.com) What really is or has been going on still leaves many to speculate.

Fans of the team are all over the map on how they feel about it and why they feel it happened. You are seeing everything from Roy thought that he needed to make a major trade to improve the team to he didn't like Tyson Barrie as a player and when they resigned him to a long term extension that was the last straw.

While all we can do is speculate it maybe some time before we actually learn the real reasons that lead to this unhappiness and decision to be made.

What do the players think about it?

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here is a link to an interesting and insightful interview by Erik Johnson.

https://soundcloud.com/altitudesports950/avs-defenseman-erik-johnson-joins-vic-and-kyle


Personally the more I digest what is going on the more it feels like to me that he decided he was done. He didn't get his way, he didn't get to make a big splashy sexy name trade. He lost control of the room at the end of last season where they needed 2 points out of the last 9 games to get into the playoffs and they failed to do so.

While this may not be and hopefully is not the whole reason this went down how it did it is how it appears on the outside looking in.

I would like to wish Patrick the best of luck in his future endeavors. I wish that he was still here as the coach of this team and I fully believe that this team is going to shock some people this season.

Who could be the next head coach of the Colorado Avalanche? We will take a look at some options in the next post!

#LetsGoAvs