Back behind the bench: why do NHL teams keep handing the keys over to Mike Keenan? (Hockey Digest Analysis).

From: Hockey Digest | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

IF MIKE KEENAN WERE A business executive, he'd be one of those turnaround specialists who's brought in to whip a company into shape. The Florida Panthers are hoping he hasn't lost his touch.

Success has followed Keenan almost everywhere he's gone--and he's been in a lot of places. When he got the job as Panthers coach on December 3, 2001, after Duane Sutter was fired, it was his seventh (and most southerly) stop in an NHL career that's seen him go from the East Coast (Boston, New York, and Philadelphia) to the West Coast (Vancouver), as well as a couple of points in between ...

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