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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
He says star players (Messier, Bure) wanted him as their coach and worked GMs and Owners to make it happen.
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Not sure how true that is about Bure. He asked for a trade the year Keenan was hired (although I don't think it had anything to do with Keenan), and Messier allegedly talked him into playing the year. But the following year, when Keenan was still around, Bure held out until his trade to Florida.
Interesting that iirc in both St Louis and Vancouver, there were players that everyone assume Keenan would get along great with (Shanahan, Linden), and they didn't.
Keenan also brought Brian Noonan with him pretty much everywhere.