What has been the most heated player versus coach rift in NHL history?
Throughout thе long history οf thе NHL, thеrе hаνе bееn numerous instances οf players nοt getting along wіth thеіr head coaches. Thе qυеѕtіοn here іѕ thіѕ: whісh rift between a player аnd a coach hаѕ bееn thе nastiest, mοѕt bitter matter?
recently? LeCavalier and Torterllela?(sp)
Mario Tremblay and Patrick Roy, they have a fight and Patrick influence to stop playing with the Montreal Canadian if Mario Tremblay was the coach so they exchange him to Colorado.
Roenick and Bill Wirtz
I would agree that Roy and Tremblay (Montreal) was one – there was also the rift between Guy Lafleur and Montreal even if it wasn’t just the coach that was a problem.
Locally, Bertuzzi and Crawford perhaps?
1. Patrick Roy and Mario Tremblay
2. Steve Avery and Andy Murray
3. John Kordic and John Brophy (Kordic threw a heavy lead ashtray crosswise the room at him and threatened to kill him)
I’d say the Roy vs. Tremblay feud has to be the most heated that I can remember. There had to be more to it then just the one game where Tremblay left Roy in to get shelled. The end result was that Montreal traded a French-language Hall of Fame goalie who was still in his prime.
There may have been players and coaches who despised each other more, but there hasn’t been a player-coach feud with a larger impact on the NHL. Colorado won two Stanley Cups with Roy which greatly altered the reputations of Chris Drury, Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg and allowed Ray Bourque to win his only Cup. It’s honestly certain those things wouldn’t have happened with Thibault as their goalie. By the way, Montreal hasn’t even sniffed the Cup since then.
It has to be Mario Tremblay and Patrick Roy. I mean Roy loses his nut on the coach then goes and essential dermands a trade! It ruined the Canadiens ever since, they’ve never had another goalie even CLOSE to be a right superstar.
I would have to agree with the ones mentioned by other posters, but you are all forgetting an early nineties rift between Dominik Hasek and Ted Nolan; which started as a war of terms and then the all star goalie accused the coach of sleeping with his (Hasek’s) wife.
It led to the dismissal of Ted Nolan (a then fan favorite) and the systematic shunning of Hasek by the fans, which led to his decrease in popularity and demand for a trade to a winner, because he felt the team gave up on him.
Roy vs Trembly is the largest one that comes to mind, but you’ve already seen that one.
The best one I’ve seen in recent memory was in baseball last year. Jays manager John Gibbons vs. Ted Lily.
Patrick Roy was probably the most arrogant player in history even if; he had problems with everyone that didn’t worship him as their god.
Nothing ever made me laugh like Patrick Roy showboating even if and accidentally throwing the puck into his own net for a goal… excellent ole Karma in action…
This could have very well been Patrick roy and his coach…in one game, the coach i judge refused to pull Roy from the game till the last 10 mins of the game, getting Roy embarrassed in front of all the montreal fans, then when he pulled him, Roy went aptly to the GM on the bench i judge and said “I want to be traded” then stormed past his coach…Roy got the last laugh that year, as the Avs won the Stanley cup.
Hmmm, excellent question. I’d have to go with a small rift in the mid-nineties between a newly crowned Stanley Cup-winning coach and a future 700 goal scorer. Keenan not only ripped Hull in practice, behind the bench, and in the media, but also went as far as stripping him of the “C”…in favour of Shane “Boo-hoo” Corson.
Mike Keenan vs Brett Hull . . .Heck, Mike Keenan vs. everybody .