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Some say he is the best coach in the NHL?
Many do, but if you hate the way Quenneville fucks with lines and falls in love with old plugs, you probably won't like a guy who once boat-anchored Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg with the remnants of Todd Bertuzzi. Did you know Bertuzzi cuts the skin between his toes and puts snuff on the cuts? This isn't germane to anything, but is that gross or what?
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Is it just a salary dispute now between him and detroit? and he is essentially a FA?
The read I've gotten is that Babcock and Kenny Holland have kind of reached the end of their relationship, with Babcock wanting more input on personnel (if not a shared coach/GM duty outright), which the Ilitches aren't gonna do. His contract expires on June 30th, so he's still under contract with Detroit, but they're letting him talk to other teams who want to get a jump on negotiations. However, the NHL has a new rule that teams who hire other teams' executives must send back compensation in the form of draft picks even if it's a promotion -- a rule that was enacted because Holland himself wouldn't stop bitching about everyone hiring away his lieutenants.
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and if he is that good, why not any offers?
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have been offers, notably from Buffalo and Toronto (Edmonton was a longshot but they seem to be casting their lot with erstwhile Babcock assistant Todd McLellan) but they've been done through Dan Bernstein's Back Channels™ because of the aforementioned compensation issues.
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and....are the Hawks really considering him?
Quenneville is signed through 2016 and eight wins away from a third Stanley Cup, so I'm guessing no, unless Quenneville retires after a life spent in hockey, which I broached the other day but had shot down.
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