Sounds like my family....

How many Kevin Bacon heads does this get?


I have always liked Ted Nolan, but for a multitude of reasons, he has not coached in the National Hockey League since winning the Jack Adams award in 1997. He has a tremendous hockey-mind, as shown by his success in the Ontario Hockey League with the Soo Greyhounds in the OHL, the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL, and most recently, as the head coach of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Moncton Wildcats.

Side note: This was the first time an Atlantic team has accomplished this feat, although the Halifax Mooseheads went to the Memorial Cup in 2000 as the host city.

Alas, the New York Islanders, the organization on which "The Office" must surely be based, has decided to give Nolan a chance behind the bench at the highest professional level.

However, it is going to be interesting to watch the relationship between Nolan and Neil Smith, the newly hired GM of the Isles, develop. Nolan, sometimes labelled as a "GM killer" who is difficult to work with (and for), was actually hired by Charles Wang, the owner of the team. The hiring of a head coach usually falls under the purvue of the GM, and as Pierre McGuire points out, this situation could lead to some serious dysfunction in the organization.

My question is: what has "Mad Mike's" tenure been all these years, if not dysfunctional?

"It's too bad he lives in the city...he's depriving some village of a pretty good idiot."