John Muckler

It was unbelievable.

You know, when Tortorella was an assistant coach there too for Muckler, he could wire guys up.

And they had Rob Ray and they had Brad May and they had Matthew Barnaby.

Like they had some tough cats.

I will tell you this.

I remember a Buffalo Sabres power play that John Muckler and John Tortorella were running that had pretty good players like Dale Howarchuk and Alexander McGilney and Pat LaFontaine and Alexi Imola.

They had some amazing guys.

And one night we went in there.

We were a 500 team at Thanksgiving time and our jobs were in jeopardy.

And we, you know, John Muckler as much, he told us as much as we needed to turn things around.

And we came out of that meeting.

It was, I'll never forget it in Washington, DC.

Well, I

mean, Muckler, Ted Green.

I mean, there was times when they didn't have assistants on the bench.

But yes, I mean, there had to be.

They made the trade with Buffalo.

Hasek went to Buffalo, and then in his unorthodox style, didn't impress John Muckler.

God bless John, just passed, and John put in waivers.

And I claimed him and the NHL wouldn't allow me to have him back because I was the one that traded him to Buffalo.