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Paddock very critical of Murray, from the SUn today...
"BUFFALO -- It sounds like sour grapes, but John Paddock has offered his two cents on the state of the Senators.
The former Senators coach, who was fired last Feb. 26 and is now coach of the AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms, told the Camden Courier-Post the team's talent assembled isn't good enough and GM Bryan Murray will likely be held accountable if the team doesn't improve.
"I think now (Murray's) next in line (to be fired)," Paddock told the suburban Philly newspaper. "We were 14 games over .500 when I was fired. They're seven under now. Somebody needs to take responsibility for that. Whether the coaches he hired and fired are good or not, they're his players and they're either not playing good or can't play, one or the other."
Asked what he thought was the case, Paddock said: "The players are not very good, that's the problem."
Craig Hartsburg's firing has come with some positive results.
The Senators are competing harder and the practice habits have been more up-tempo since Cory Clouston took over from Hartsburg...."
Throw the GM under the bus and the players, wow. The grapes are sour my friend. Perhaps it was because you didn't do a good coaching job. Perhaps Hartsburg talked a good game about accountability and never did anything. Maybe, just maybe those are the problems too.
"BUFFALO -- It sounds like sour grapes, but John Paddock has offered his two cents on the state of the Senators.
The former Senators coach, who was fired last Feb. 26 and is now coach of the AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms, told the Camden Courier-Post the team's talent assembled isn't good enough and GM Bryan Murray will likely be held accountable if the team doesn't improve.
"I think now (Murray's) next in line (to be fired)," Paddock told the suburban Philly newspaper. "We were 14 games over .500 when I was fired. They're seven under now. Somebody needs to take responsibility for that. Whether the coaches he hired and fired are good or not, they're his players and they're either not playing good or can't play, one or the other."
Asked what he thought was the case, Paddock said: "The players are not very good, that's the problem."
Craig Hartsburg's firing has come with some positive results.
The Senators are competing harder and the practice habits have been more up-tempo since Cory Clouston took over from Hartsburg...."
Throw the GM under the bus and the players, wow. The grapes are sour my friend. Perhaps it was because you didn't do a good coaching job. Perhaps Hartsburg talked a good game about accountability and never did anything. Maybe, just maybe those are the problems too.
