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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
When I saw Kuzmenko showing Zary the tablet after he scored the PP goal last night it made me think of that story from Terry Crisp about Sergei Makarov. Crisp is drawing up a play and Makarov shakes his head and erases it and says should be like this. Than says something like "I get from Tikhonov...him good coach. You not."
I wonder if Kuzmenko pulled this on Savard at the end of last season...no not like this, do this. Maybe you keep him around a bit to teach his teammates how to make a powerplay work.
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I believe the quote from Makarov was something along the lines of:
Tikhonov: Good coach. Bad person.
You: Good person. Bad coach.
Edit: Found the following from an old Hockey News article:
Terry Crisp bent over backwards to show Sergei Makarov respect when the great Soviet winger came to play in the NHL for Calgary in 1989. One day the Flames coach was drawing up a play on the board, illustrating to Makarov how to position himself. Suddenly, Makarov grabbed the chalk, crossed everything out and started making his own diagrams. “Tikhonov bad guy, good coach,” he said to Crisp (in reference to the late Soviet bench boss). “You? Good guy, bad coach.” Crisp, who had led the Flames to a Stanley Cup the year before, said Makarov, who played in the Soviet Union on the KLM line with Vladimir Krutov and Igor Larionov, probably had more talent than anybody he had ever coached.
“But I’d played for Scotty Bowman and Fred Shero, two of the best coaches in the business,” he said. ”It wasn’t as if I just fell off a turnip truck.”
https://thehockeynews.com/news/backc...d-a-huge-stick