Cool article @NHL about Tallon and Q. Also some thoughts and tips on playing for Q from Patrick Kane.
-- No more than an hour after the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, Dale Tallon's phone rang.
It was Joel Quenneville.
Tallon had spent 33 years with the Blackhawks as a player, broadcaster and executive. He had endured hard times and helped build what would be a championship team. But he wasn't there when one of his draft picks, forward Patrick Kane, scored the Cup-clinching goal.
Instead, he was watching on television at the home of Florida Panthers executive Bill Torrey. He had been fired as general manager of the Blackhawks the year before and just been named GM of the Panthers.
Quenneville had become coach of the Blackhawks early in the 2008-09 season, and his veteran presence had helped put a young, talented roster over the top. He had become close with Tallon along the way.
He passed the phone around the locker room so the players could speak to Tallon.
"That brought a tear to my eye," Tallon said.
It says a lot about Quenneville, Tallon and their relationship that Quenneville thought of Tallon in that bittersweet moment.
Now Tallon has endured hard times and put together a young, talented roster in Florida, and he has hired Quenneville to put it over the top. They hope it will be like Chicago all over again.
With one exception.
This time, they want to celebrate a championship together.
"We feel there's an opportunity to create something special here," Quenneville said, "and so it's an opportunity to do something we really didn't get to finish."
https://www.nhl.com/news/...with-panthers/c-309317404
Let's go Panthers