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Crawford anxious to be back behind the bench
Desires 'simplicity' from Canadians in Switzerland
MARC Crawford is preparing for his newest hockey challenge just as he did for all of those that came before it.
"You've got to be all in," he said in a recent interview. "It's the only way to do anything."
There have been a few unexpected hurdles for Crawford while trying to ready himself to coach Canada's entry at the Spengler Cup later this month.
For starters, he's had a tough time getting his hands on anything more than a few Internet highlights of Czech team HC Vitkovice Steel, whom Canada faces in its tournament-opening game on Dec. 26.
"We've got all our crack staff all over the place trying to send us a video of them," Crawford said with a laugh. "But it's kind of like trying to get something in the old Eastern Bloc days, we'll have to smuggle a tape out of there."
It's just one of the charms that comes with the oldest professional international hockey tournament in the world. The Spengler Cup has been held in the picturesque mountain town of Davos, Switzerland since 1923.
The competition features five European club teams and a Canadian entry comprised largely of European-based pros. The Canadian team will also feature former NHL goaltender Marty Turco and three players on loan from the American Hockey League: goalie Jake Allen, defenceman Ryan Parent and forward Brett McLean.
There won't be much time for preparation. The team will gather for a meeting on Saturday night, practise for the first time Sunday and open the tournament the following day.
"Obviously, simplicity will be the order of the day," said Crawford. "We've talked to the guys and we've sent them an outline of how we want to play in the areas where you need your structure. You need a little bit of structure in how you're going to forecheck, how you're going to defend."
Beyond that, the coaching staff will rely on some built-in chemistry. Most of the Canadians play in the Swiss league and eight of them are returning from the squad that finished second last year.
The 50-year-old Crawford is enthusiastic about a blue-line that features quite a bit of NHL experience, with Parent joined by Mark Hartigan, Joel Kwiatkowski, Cory Murphy, Jordan Hendry and Derrick Walser.
"Our defence is going to be a strong point for us," said Crawford. "We've got a real good puck-moving D. We've got good experience back there and that'll help. When you've got good goaltending and a decent defence, hopefully you can find a way to score a few goals."
The forwards include Glen Metropolit, Rico Fata, Jeremy Williams, Stacy Roest, Joel Perrault and J.P. Vigier -- all of whom have moved on to Europe after playing in the NHL.
Crawford will be joined behind the bench by assistants Doug Shedden and Trent Yawney.
"We're really excited about our coaching staff," said Brad Pascall, vice-president of national teams for Hockey Canada. "It's a great blend of international experience and professional experience, which I think is going to bode well.
"...I think the coaches have a good understanding of the international game and our preparation will definitely be superior."
Canada has appeared in nine of the last 11 Spengler Cup finals, last winning the tournament in 2007.
The format offers little margin for error. After opening with round-robin games against HC Vitkovice and host HC Davos, the tournament shifts into a sudden-death playoff round. The championship game will be played on New Year's Eve.
Crawford has been looking forward to the event since being named coach earlier this year and will bring his wife and two children along with him. He's been doing television work since being fired by the Dallas Stars in April and is anxious to get back behind the bench.
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 22, 2011 C4
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Erdogan caught overplaying his hand
The car bombs that killed more than 40 people last weekend in a town in southern Turkey are a reckoning for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He had made himself party to the fight over Syria and vowed that he would see the end of Bashar Assad's rule. But Assad has hunkered down, and the Turkish leader who calls on U.S. President Barack Obama this week faces a dilemma. In the face of Syrian provocations, Erdogan threatens dire consequences, yet draws back, sheltered behind the assertion that his country won't be drawn into a full-scale war with the regime in Damascus.
The bombs in Reyhanli, a quaint border town in the province of Hatay, were just the latest in a series of provocations by Syrian forces. Give Assad credit for his audacity. Like a gambler with steady nerves, he has bet that Erdogan won't pull the trigger.
In June 2012, a Turkish F-4 fighter jet was downed over Syrian territorial waters. In October, Syrian mortar shells hit a Turkish border town, killing five civilians. There have been other attacks. Life alongside the Syrian killing fields has exacted its toll on the Turks. More than 300,000 refugees have spilled over the border.
The overwhelming majority of them have settled in Hatay, a region with a complicated history and a tangled demography. It was once a Syrian district, Alexandretta, with communities of Turks, Kurds, Turkmen, Orthodox Christians, Armenians, Sunni Arabs and Alawites. The Turks annexed it in 1939, after the French Mandate authorities gave it up.
The border didn't annul the bonds of language and ethnicity and sectarian attachments. Antioch (Antakya) is a bilingual city, as Syrian in culture as it is Turkish. The Sunnis from Aleppo and Idlib streaming into Hatay find relatives and kinsmen on the Turkish side of the border. They also find Alawites, supporters of Assad who bristle at the favouritism shown to the Syrian rebels by Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party.
A year or so ago, there was facile talk in Turkey of a neo-Ottomanist calling. Erdogan himself was prone to that vision. For him the drive of the modern Turkish state for a place in Europe held no attraction. Syria, by virtue of its geographic contiguity, was a special prize.
Erdogan's options in Syria have narrowed by the day. He has arrayed his government on the side of the Sunni Arab states of the Persian Gulf, an alliance that isn't popular in Turkey. He wages his political battles under the gaze of secularists at odds with his pan-Islamic vision.
At the altar of this vision, Erdogan broke off Turkey's tight cooperation with Israel that was forged by his country's military and intelligence services. For four years, he has courted the Arab street with an ardent anti-Zionism that puts the most passionate Arab nationalists to shame. His condemnation of the recent Israeli airstrikes — on Damascus depots of Iranian missiles meant to be delivered to Hezbollah — is a stark example of the triumph of ideology over realpolitik.
The sincerity of his attitude toward the slaughter in Syria might be conceded. But the plunge into a quagmire was made easier by the Turkish leader's conviction that the U.S. was bound to ride to the rescue. The prime minister convinced himself that he had a close bond with Obama.
It is forgotten now that Obama's first Islamic journey as president wasn't to Cairo but to Ankara. The Turks misread him: They weren't prepared for the large-scale American retreat from zones of American primacy.
Turkey wanted the Syrian rebellion armed and supported; it wasn't troubled by the Islamist groups that had taken up arms. Moreover, the Muslim Brotherhood leaders were a known entity — Istanbul is their favoured base — and the "Turkish model," they proclaim, is what they want for Syria after the fall of the dictatorship.
The regime change in Syria that Turkey is committed to is not Washington's program. Two secretaries of state, first Hillary Clinton, then John Kerry, have petitioned Russia to abandon Assad. At the core of Obama's Syria policy is an unstated commitment to a negotiated settlement between the Alawite regime and the Sunni rebellion. The Turks know there can be no middle ground between the two.
The Turkish leader who will meet Obama this week is politically weakened; the Arabs he bet on appear in no need of a new Ottoman sultanate. And the American leader he will sit down with has shown a disturbing ability to avert his gaze from the pain and the ordeal of Syria — and from Turkey's stakes in that conflict.
Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Stanford University's Hoover Institution and author of The Syrian Rebellion.
—Bloomberg News
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The officers were accused of using racial slurs and berating police while off-duty in Green Bay.
Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau never wavered on her highly publicized decision last December to fire two police officers accused of using racial slurs, berating local officers and disparaging the chief herself during an off-duty incident in Green Bay, Wis.
Last month, she dug in even deeper when officers Brian Thole and Shawn Powell tried to regain their jobs before the city's Civil Service Commission. She testified that the officers' terminations were necessary to maintain public trust and that their behavior damaged the department and the profession.
Now the commission has vindicated Harteau's stance, upholding the dismissals of Thole and Powell, and Harteau still says it's been a difficult episode for the department.
In a statement issued Monday, Harteau said it's never easy to fire someone, and in an interview several hours later she added that she was mortified when she saw the video that captured some of Powell and Thole's behavior.
"It was their plain disrespect for everyone," Harteau said. "It started in the streets and ended back at the police station. Nothing was enough for them."
The June 2013 incident was the subject of a 40-page report released by the Green Bay police that triggered an internal affairs investigation in Minneapolis. Another report released this June by the commission provides a detailed timeline of the officers' actions.
Thole and Powell have denied the allegations, and their lawyer, Gregg Corwin, declined to comment. The police union didn't contest the firings, which meant the officers had to pay their own legal fees.
When the incident first came to light, it brought immediate condemnation from city, police and union leaders. The Star Tribune learned days later that at least three more Minneapolis officers had been cited for assault months before in a similar incident in Apple Valley.
The two cases ignited a round of public recriminations and reawakened simmering complaints about racial intolerance by police officers. Community activists held a news conference on the front steps of City Hall to call for a U.S. Justice Department audit of the department.
The June commission report and termination recommendation were followed by a hearing in front of the full commission, which decided last week to uphold the firings.
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The officers, both decorated officers in the military and the Police Department, took a motorcycle ride to Green Bay to mark the anniversary of Powell's father's death. While at a downtown bar in the early evening, Thole was talking to a Green Bay officer. A car with a black driver passed by, and Thole said, "What is that? Green Bay is too [racial epithet] friendly."
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Thole later said that he believed that he was going to be assaulted, and punched one of the men in the head.
Two men from the group told Green Bay police officers that the fight began after Thole and Powell used a racial slur. Powell said he was initially grateful that police were on the scene, but grew frustrated when officers didn't appear to take them seriously — particularly their claim that they been the assault victims.
During the same stretch of the evening, another Green Bay officer said he heard Powell use the same racial slur and that Thole referred to black men from the group as doing their "monkey thing."
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Which is still MIA from the Marge regime...Originally Posted by edabbs44
Bengals have raised the bar for us... I do believe that we could sneak him throughOriginally Posted by 15fan
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I'm betting (hoping) Krivsky makes a move before Mays makes another start. I like the idea of dealing a young first baseman for starting pitching. Pitching is hard to come by, first basemen...uh, not so much.Originally Posted by princeton
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BrooklynRedz is nosing around here - maybe he knows somethings up??
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That's why we have 2 bargain guys at 1st this yearOriginally Posted by Spitball
True they are playing well, but they wern't in demand around baseball.
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Hey, I nose around here quite a bit...Originally Posted by Heath
But seriously, I haven't heard a word, which is not all that uncommon with this FO.
Also, and I don't think this is necessarily a new trend, but it seems the media is really driving itself this trade season. One guy drops a dream in a daily notebook...next thing you know it gets a mention by the announcers during the game followed by a full story by the original reporter claiming the rumor has legs because it was mentioned on the air.
Krivsky will not sacrifice the future for the present. He's proven that in the type of moves he's made. His first goal is to improve the depth and overall quality of the organization first, and his second goal is to win this year.
He's not, and won't be this year, in the market for anyone who's "hot now", in other words, a big name player.
Anyone he goes after will be of the type that he's already obtained.
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Gary Majewski?He's not, and won't be this year, in the market for anyone who's "hot now".
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
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You and every large market team. I doubt very much the A's will trade him at the trading deadline. For the Reds, that would probably mean giving up Homer Bailey.Originally Posted by princeton
Plus with all those innings Zito has pitched, is going five years a wise thing to do?
If you think small, you'll go nowhere in life.
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