Dave Cameron is pretty good at developing players. I don't mind this at all
I think he'll be a good assistant coach but I question who's decision this was. I hoped that PM would be given free reign to hire the coaches he wanted. But it looks like Melnyk has made the decision for him.
It's a shame Melnyk had to be so vocal about Cameron.
Maybe Melnyk asked MacLean to talk to Cameron and he made the call on his own to take him as an assistant... Now we'll never know.
It's a shame Melnyk had to be so vocal about Cameron.
Maybe Melnyk asked MacLean to talk to Cameron and he made the call on his own to take him as an assistant... Now we'll never know.
This is true. For all we know Cameron got/will get the job entirely on merit, but it will go down as a Melnyk decision regardless.
I think the Sun had an article (for what that's worth) last week that PM would be able to pick his own assistants. It's just as possible that Cameron was suggested and Paul accepted.
Like I have said before, Melnyk wouldn't be trying to sabotage his biggest investment by recommending someone that he didn't think would do a good job. Cameron has been the GM/HC for the Majors, so he has been reporting straight back to Melnynk, so I reckon even though Melnyk isn't a "hockey guy" per se he'd know if Cameron was a dink.
Assistant coaches are rarely selected purely on merit, even Mark Reeds worked with Maclean in the past which is why he is in the discussion.
Funny, the dynamic is almost always that the head coach is the aloof, distant disciplinarian and the assistants are the more player friendly go betweens.
For some reason, we have the nice guy as the head coach and the arrogant a-hole as the assistant. That should be interesting.
Funny, the dynamic is almost always that the head coach is the aloof, distant disciplinarian and the assistants are the more player friendly go betweens.
For some reason, we have the nice guy as the head coach and the arrogant a-hole as the assistant. That should be interesting.
Cameron, who has been general manager and coach of the Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors of the Ontario Hockey League the last four seasons, is on the verge of being appointed an assistant coach of the National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators.
“It’s just a matter now of crossing some T’s and dotting some I’s,” Cameron said last night at the Majors’ annual awards banquet at Stage West, adding that James Boyd, who has been co-coach of the Majors under Cameron, will take over the head coaching job of the OHL team.
Cameron, who has coached for 10 years in the OHL and another three seasons with Binghamton of the American Hockey League, told the audience there would have to be a major setback in the talks for the deal not to go through.
........ he had discussions as recently as Saturday with Ottawa owner Eugene Melnyk, who also owns the Majors, as well as with the new head coach of the Senators, Paul MacLean, and also with general manager Bryan Murray.
How ironic would it be to have both Dave Cameron and Mark Reeds as our assistants?....only weeks removed from being each others greatest rivals in the Memorial Cup and OHL playoffs...
So is my golden retriever but I wouldn't want it as assistant coach of the Senators.
Terrible news, worse idea and I fully expect The Huge Euge to pull the chute on MacLean and put Cameron in his stead at the earliest sign of adversity.
