Tony Granato
Tony Granato
Anthony Lewis Granatois a retired American professional ice hockey left winger. He is the current head coach for the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team beginning during the 2016–17 season, though he still serves as an assistant coach for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Granato also served as the head coach and assistant coach of the Colorado Avalanche and assistant coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins...
add areas boost caliber certainly depth early eight excited expect guys improve market middle nine past phone players says summer
We always want to improve over the summer, but to be able to do it with one phone call, and to be able to add two players of that caliber in the middle of summer was certainly something that we didn't expect to happen. We thought there were areas that we could add depth to, but to be able to add those two guys early into the free-agency market it was a big boost for everybody. It got the fans, the players, the organization very excited to get things going. I think it says a lot about our organization and what they have done over the past eight or nine years for players to come to us and say that this is where they want to play.