Harry Sinden
Harry Sinden
Harry James Sindenwas the long-time general manager, coach, and president for the Boston Bruins NHL hockey team, and was the coach of Team Canada during the 1972 Summit Series. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders category...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth14 September 1932
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The position we find ourselves in relative to the post-season has dictated that a change would be made. Our judgment was that it would be unfair to Mike O'Connell to continue working at this job once this decision had been made.
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When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job.
When you think something has to be done, you have to do it.
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He was a gentleman as he's always been. He said it was not unexpected and he felt no animosity at that time.
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When you think something has to be done, and you believe it has to be done and the consensus is that it has to be done, you have to do it. And Mike, in some of the things he did when he was here, believed in the same principle.