Here's the deal: if anyone, anyone got fired from the same exact job by over a quarter of the companies in a given field of commerce, it'd be pretty safe to say that person is either corrupt, incompetent, or otherwise unemployable. ↵
↵Oh, but Mike Keenan is a special man, you see, a special man who just can’t stop getting named head coach by NHL teams. Sadly, magic has a way of wearing off, because that’s the way relationships go. And just as often as Keenan gets hired, he gets fired, like Elizabeth Taylor with hilarious male patten baldness.
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↵And so we find ourselves in sunny Calgary, where the Flames have unceremoniously dumped Keenan in a fit of rage. Keenan was sacked despite amassing an 88-60-16 record in his two seasons in Calgary; his inability to move past the first round in the playoffs was apparently enough to secure his departure.
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↵↵⇥“Our team did not meet expectations,” GM Darryl Sutter said in a↵⇥statement issued late Friday afternoon. “We believe this is a necessary↵⇥change required to allow our team to continue toward our objective of↵⇥winning the Stanley Cup.”↵⇥
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↵But don’t cry for him, Calgarytina. Mike Keenan will be back soon enough. Men with moustaches don’t stay down. Ever.↵
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