"Sue me if I'm wrong.... don't sue me, I don't have a lot of money." Same Shan, same. 😔

The season the was lost to a shootout. It was a time that lived in infamy. Every NHL player got together to play a best of 1000 shootout. It took 3 weeks and the players were passing out from exhaustion. The coaches started subbing in for the players around the 2nd week. It was a crises of epic proportions

Mike Keenan: the NHL's ultimate *bridge-burner*

I love these career retrospectives!

"Don't sue me please, I don't have a lot of money" XD

Brett Hull vs Keenan feud for sure. Love Hull calling him out as a rat

Never had much respect for Keenan, lost it all the time I found out he benched Dale Hawerchuk the day his ill grandmother came to watch him play before she passed

Once again great video Shannon, would definitely love to see a video on Keenan’s trades in the future

I loved mike keenan!!!! Winner all the way!!!

"Iron" Mike belongs in the Hall of Fame! How many coaches in history are going to win a Stanley, Canada, and Gagarin Cup? He's a winner, if they have a hockey league on Pluto he'd win their championship!

You were too kind . He was a first class jerk period exclamation point

This is my favourite video of his, so good

@The Hockey Guy excellent expose on iron mike. greatly appreciated! cheers from southern ontario 🍁

He was great coach for the Rangers, he pushed all the right buttons, but even after winning a Stanley Cup in NYC in 1994, the players and management wanted nothing to do with him because he was so hard on the players.

I remember Keenan being pretty ubiquitous in the NHL when I was growing up. Whenever not behind a revolving door of team benches, he could be found behind a sports network desk seconds later talking hockey.

Keenan destroyed the Blues.

The Detroit Red Wings prior to hiring Scotty Bowman as head coach had Al Arbour and Mike Keenan as candidates for head coach.

Whatever he is he deserves to go into the hall I don’t know when the world became so hurt but there’s many men like mike in the hall

A fun topic you could do for some of your younger viewers is talk about infamous hits ex. bertuzzi, Rome, Simon, McSorley. Just an idea but you're great and don't forget it

Keenan seems to me like John Tortorella on steroids

Pat Burns' time was up in Boston. I remember it being quite a shock they even kept him going into that 2000-01 season.

He did everything to get Wayne Greskey,then when it was time to resign him he did not have nerve to keep him. We all loved Wayne when he was with the Blues,but when Keenan did not want him know more it showed who he really cared about. Then feud he had with Brett really got us in Stl fuming.

My favorite was pulling on the jersey of Balfour to get his attention after Balfour had told him off and was then ignoring him.

U should do a series of interesting coaches and gms, ik u do plenty of these but an actual series would be awesome

Keenan's tenure with the Flames was pretty good. Their squad in 08-09 was prime to do damage in the playoffs but their team was decimated by injuries. Also after that the team got significantly worse and didn't make the playoffs for 5 or so years. He definitely had a 'unique' style though that was really mixed results and some disasters that you noted. Cool video to go through these things thanks.

If a team in the NHL hires Keenan, they end up in a rebuild phase a couple years later. The guy destroys teams. He alienates players. So how is he a good coach exactly?

Mike Keenan for President.

The hockey version of Billy Martin. Highly volatile, vicious temper, great coach but never stayed at one stint for more than four consecutive seasons, and rubbed a lot of players the wrong way even with the success.

No wonder they called him Adolph

One of my sister's in-laws is a diehard Blues fan, even did a victory lap around the block when the won the cup. He hates Mike Keenan for what he did to the team.

What about swedens coach for their world cup team Rikard Grönborg? Do you think any NHL team will pick him up after his success with Sweden since he joined?

Iron Mike was and still is the man.

There is a guy on Reddit who is a St.Louis Blues fan who uses the "Keenan get bent" as his username.

So, how about those career of trades videos?

Can you please do one on keenan's trades

Shannon, remember how surprising it was when Scott Walker was left exposed for Nasvhille in the expansion draft? In his book, Burke explained he wanted like hell to keep him but McCaw told him to let Keenan have his way on that one. Nuts. Kinda tells you the state of the franchise when Burke took over

when he was with the bruins he tried to fire the TV guy dale Arnold. and the bruins wife's had a carnival planed for a Sunday he tried to cancel it the day before that went no where. the carnival was for childrens hospital. he did not want the locker room opened for tours that day for the fans to walk through. I don't think he had many friends with the team I would be around the garden a lot in those guys work and he would always be by himself after games.

iron mike would have been a villian on wrassling

I'm from Rochester NY, he got us our last cup, haven't sniffed one since. But I'm also a Blues fan so this is a love hate relationship

Make a video of the Kevin Lowe era in edmonton

Mike Babcock is gonna be known as a Mike Keenan

I voted for him several times in the presidential election as a write in candidate before I learned he was born in Canada.

If you want to know how hated a man Mike Keenan is in St. Louis, you need look no further than Brett Hull's jersey retirement ceremony. When Brett alluded to Mike during his speech, a fan yells out "I f**king hate Mike Keenan" to which everyone laughed and cheered. I think he's sports public enemy #2, right behind Stan Kronke, in St. Louis.

OH GOOD GOD

I get the guy was controversial but I think Keenan should be in the HOF, you take 3 different teams to the Stanley Cup and win 1. That's awesome.

He belongs in the HOF, which includes his '87 + '91 CC wins (omitted), but he mistreated so many players and NHL brass, as well as public opinion still being low, I don't think he will be admitted. On a side note (regarding '94 cup win), I felt bad for Mike Gartner. He played 4 full seasons with Rangers, only to be traded to Leaf's for Anderson just prior to playoffs (Messier-Keenan reunion team). Anderson was historically effective in playoffs, but trading a consistent 40 goal scorer (Gartner) for a 20 goal scorer (at the time) was indeed a statistical detriment to NY. Gartner scored an average of 0.82 ppg (incl playoffs) with '94 Leafs...whereas Anderson only scored 0.34 for NY. EDIT: It has become trendy to criticize stats, but points win games.

They didn’t call him Iron Mike for nothing.

Destroyed the Canucks

This is first video ive ever watched (and ive watched a ton of yours) of yours shannon thatvi disagreed with ya way more than agreed with ya!!!

I was at a game in Toronto against the Canucks and Keenan pulled the goalie in the 2nd period. The Leafs won that game

I think the dropoff in Keenan's success sort of parallels how the game was moving on from that style of coaching. The Professional arsehole type coaches were on the decline by the late 90's as modern coaching adopted more modern metheods

Damn he fucked shit up like everywhere except for like philly, chicago and to an extent ny

With only one Stanley Cup… with the stellar line ups of players he coached, other more reasonable coaches would have won multiple cups

Can we get that Mike Keenan Trade video :) sounds like a doozie

I think there were issues with Keenan as well during a certain Canada Cup. It was either in 1987 or 1991…or both. Lol

At this time, there is one dislike for this video. I'm guessing that was Mike Keenan!

Why would Messier want to hire the coach who drove Gretzky to the NY Rangers in the first place? Power.

Didn't hurt fuhr wtf?? He was awesome, kypreos falls on him in 96 playoffs and we have to go to Casey and still are a goal away from beating 2nd best team ever in Detroit and their 62 win season!!! (77 montreal only better pts wise. )

Keenan was known for putting his players down....

On a serious note Mike Keenan recently revealed he's got prostate cancer and has been fighting it since May.

I always thought that he was sgt. slaughter

I was watching some of the nhl top 100 player videos the other day and I had to wonder how in the hell st Louis has never won a cup.

Keenan really seemed to enjoy messing with player's lives. The daily drama and team uncertainty was exhausting in Vancouver.

Would say it's more unlikely he'll get inducted as a builder given reputation and how his time suddenly with franchises. His career declined after the New York Rangers. Interesting when he was in Calgary, it was neither a success nor a failure. He came in quietly as at the time Jim Playfair was still the head coach after taking over Darryl Sutter when he stepped down to be general manager. He was criticized for his coaching style but wasn't fired. Found out Mike Keenan was going to be head coach of the Flames by coming off the bus for work in the morning and saw his face on the front page of the paper wondering why his face was on the front page of the paper.

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I feel like he isn't in the hall of fame because of his reputation he was so brutal on his players but still he did find results even if he was a royal dick. a Stanley Cup Championship and a Gagarin cup speak for themselves. I would wonder if he would ever try and make a comeback in the NHL or if any team would give him a shot.

His record in 94-95 was 28-15-15. You have him at 49 games.

I loved Burns and hated Keenan in Boston.

Maybe he could go to Dallas

Why does he get get both the GM job and the HC job

Is Tortorella Mike Kenan 2.0?

how does a coach win the stanley cup, then get fired by the team? .. how does keenan win the KHL championship one year, then finish with a decent record the next (at least making the playoffs) only to get fired abruptly? .. how does he finish with a winning record in boston (as well as 2 in a row with calgary), then get fired by those teams immediately after? .. hmm, something's wrong here (*not a "people person", perhaps?..

You really slighted him by very casually mentioning he brought a very average team to the Stanley Cup finals not once but twice.in Philly. It was because he was their coach that was a big reason they got there. And to blame him at all for leaving the Rangers right away is completely off base. If you knew how bad Neil Smith was as the Rangers GM you would’ve packed your bags as well. I am leaving was not on my keychain… That one is on Neil Smith

Good for the short term and then it goes down hill after

does keenan belong in the hall of fame Nope

Omg Shannon I'm sorry but goes from Vancouver too Boston man you can't win

Keenan could have had 700 wins, I don’t think he gets even close to 800 wins. Hall of famer? Maybe if he won more than 1 Stanley Cup

Damn Shannon, what an old video this is, lol.... At any rate I would call Keenan's "ethics" extremely questionable - but you cant question the results... Keenan's antics have to be some of the most questionable the game has ever seen - at least in our lifetimes... Either way Keenan really blurs the line.... He clearly enjoyed manipulating young guys and thats not cool man - but these same dudes he manipulated are grateful for it - it's really bizarre...

The ONLY guy he got aong with in New York was Mark Messier, He treated Brian Leetch, Mike Richter and Alex Kovalev like complete crap, also Glenn Healy. He purposely would embarrass and bench players.

Wouldn't have helped... Nothing could have helped the Leafs of the mid to late nineties... And definitely not a rapidly declining post-Kings Wayne Gretsky. He was but a league ambassador taking refuge in any major US city NHL team that would take him and pay his Sir fee...

As a Flyers fan, I never liked him as a coach. However, 9th best all time is hard to argue with. He might be a bastard. But he got results. Still, hated his style.

mike should be in the hockey hall of fame

As a DEVILS fan...we LOVE Pat Burns. While Keenan is a pure clown. 🤡

Mark Messier won the Rangers' 1994 Stanley Cup, not Mike Keenan. Keenan helped get them there, but when it counted most, he tried to sabotage the team and worked on his deal with St. Louis during the conference finals. The guy is an ass.

He's creepy...Keenan...shudder.

You forgot 2 Canada Cups (like Olympics for you Americans lol). HHOF waited for Pat Burns to die before they put him in(because of 86 WJHC). Keenan will get in, the ‘old boys’ of the NHL don’t like him but it doesn’t matter. Iron Mike was an awesome coach.

I despise Mike Keenan. He's one of the worst things that ever happened to the Blues. From what I've heard his coaching tactics consisted of telling players to "Go out there and play hard". (Yes, I know that's a gross exaggertion). As you point out, as a GM he would overpay for his favorites. Also, I think he was obsessed with making a team HIS creation, so some of his moves always consisted of getting rid of key players. Also, I think he suffers from ADHD as a GM. He was constantly making trades, often it appeared just for the sake of making trades. To add insult to injury the idiot Blue's management, I believe Jack Quinn, was found guilty of negotiating with Keenan before it was legal to do so. So, the league punished them by awarding the Rangers a Blues' first round draft choice and a top 6 forward, whose name I can't remember. As if having Keenan as your GM isn't punishment enough. Yes, Keenan got Pronger but that was for super star Shanahan, hardly a genius move. And, yes it was a bad situation because Shanahan stole Teammate Turgeon's wife. So, it's understood he had to be moved.

Mike Keenan was a rodent that set the Blues back by trading all their young talent and bringing in washed up veterans. Ran Hull, Joseph and Wayne Gretzky out of St. Louis.

Just a bad coach.