Lightning Fire Head Coach Barry Melrose

The Tampa Bay Lightning have relieved head coach Barry Melrose of his duties and named associate coach Rick Tocchet interim head coach. The Lightning are in the midst of a three-game slump and are 4-5-1 in the past 10 games, dropping them to fourth in the Southeast Division standings. Under Melrose, they won just five of 16 games to open the season (5-7-4).

Source: TSN.ca

 

Sweet, now we are paying 2 coaches not to coach our team! Let's go Lightning!

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Dear ESPN,
Please do NOT rehire Barry. Let this latest failure prove what a hack this guy is. He couldn't win with Wayne freaking Gretzky on his team now he fails with Lecavalier. He ruins good talent. Sure it's funny when he says 'aboot' instead of 'about' or 'zed' instead of 'Z' but so do a lot of Canadians. Just pick anyone at random and put them on tv.

thank you

 

Typical Melrose, blaming the players during an interview with ESPN. What an butt.

 

Considering their off-season, it's got to take a crap coach to heck up this badly.

 

ok , and the bolts win again the prize , to be the last in the league ^^

but no really a surprise for me .....

 

Maybe he'll go into modeling with that awesome mop of his, or maybe he'll star in some great 80's pop music videos.

 

he can do anyhting but come back to espn, or any sports show for that fact

 

haha, they should have never hired him

 

yea i heard that. and was like what the hell. the season just started. I wonder if espn will take him back