Despite Off-Ice Issues, Joel Quenneville Hired by Anaheim

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00:00You have a hiring in the NHL.

00:04We do have a hiring in the NHL this afternoon,

00:07and that is we said a couple weeks ago that Anaheim was going to interview

00:11Joel Quenville.

00:12I believe it was the first interview he's gotten since the NHL reinstated him

00:17and allowed him to get back into the league.

00:19He will get that job as Anaheim introduces him this afternoon.

00:24Look, Anaheim's a team that they've been bad for a while.

00:28I thought they were better this year.

00:30We had a lot of nights where they were home at the duck pond,

00:33and they were very spunky with some of these teams,

00:35and we both were kind of surprised that they fired Cronin.

00:39Obviously, nobody knows who he is, but the team seemed to improve.

00:44Maybe they thought they were going to get this guy,

00:46and maybe that's why they decided to fire him

00:48because now you take a Stanley Cup-winning head coach

00:52who's dying to get back in the game,

00:54and you put him with that young roster in Anaheim,

00:58and that could be a very nice mix for them.

01:01Listen, I hate to say it, but I said this before.

01:04He didn't rape anybody, okay?

01:07So he's a great coach.

01:09He got blamed for all of that sex scandal in Chicago,

01:12and you got to blame somebody.

01:17You know, Bowman took a hit.

01:18He took a hit.

01:19They all got fired.

01:21They all lost their careers for a while,

01:23but he is a fantastic coach.

01:26I already said it, that he would get hired instantaneously there,

01:31or, you know, I'd take him in Pittsburgh in five seconds

01:34because I, you know, I don't have any morals about this stuff.

01:39I mean, these kids did this.

01:41These players did this.

01:42They're the ones that were doing it.

01:45You know, it's no different than hazing.

01:47You know, they blame the adult.

01:48They blame the coach, and these kids are torturing other kids,

01:52raping them and everything else.

01:54I mean, the same thing happened with that scene with the lacrosse team

01:57in the last two weeks.

01:59They took some kid out in the woods and tortured him,

02:01and they're all arrested.

02:03They all got – they were going to face felony charges.

02:05They all got misdemeanors, which I thought was a joke.

02:08But, you know, the hockey scandal, not only this,

02:11how about in the queue?

02:14They can't even – they can't even convict them, right?

02:17They can't even convict them because they can't even get a jury to convict them.

02:22They had a hung jury, a mistrial.

02:26They can't even get a jury together to convict these kids.

02:29But you're going to blame this guy for what happened in Chicago?

02:33They've had so many sex scandals now in hockey.

02:35It really freaks me out because, you know, I never remembered any of that stuff ever,

02:43that, like, players were, you know, raping other players and stuff like that.

02:49This stuff's, like, you know, in the last 15 years.

02:52This stuff, in my view, you never heard of this stuff 25, 30 years ago, Mike.

02:56That's all there is to it.

02:57When have you ever heard of that happening in an NHL locker room

03:02or in a minor league locker room, even ever, until in the last 10 years?

03:07Like, it's pervert city out there now.

03:09I have no idea what to say.

03:11But I – you know, he took the fall.

03:14But – and I don't want to – like, I'm not supporting him.

03:17I just think that, you know, let's get real here.

03:20He wasn't raping anybody.

03:22So blame him all you want.

03:24He got hired today, and he's back in the NHL.

03:26It didn't take long, did it?

03:27And I'll tell you another thing.

03:28They recycled coaches in that league like nobody's business,

03:32including guys that were involved in sex scandals.

03:35So take a real good, fat, juicy look at what happened.

03:39I mean, the guy – the guy got hired.

03:41Like, that's like, you know, hiring Jeffrey Dahmer to be your head coach.

03:46What is next?

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