Opening Thursday night weekly radio show, said Commissioner Gary Bettman, the sad news.
says It's a sad day for all of us in the NHL and it is because we have lost a very, very good people in our game and our league and was loved, he said in Time of Gary Bettman NHL Commissioner. EJ loved hockey, loved, loved the coach, he loved his analysis, he loved to talk. He was a pioneer in the use of computers for research and analysis of ice hockey, and he did a fantastic job on the direction of the Central Scouting Bureau, and we will miss him terribly.
I was only 58 years, and to lose another family member of the NHL to the fight against cancer. And of course the whole family, NHL extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to his wife Terry, daughters Jacqueline EJ and Erin. Sends Guest Host recalled McGuire EJ Hradek face again in the 1980s, while working to become the sports ticker Hradek, scores and information service, and McGuire, on his way as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers, call received late at night on the results of the NHL and several minor league games, and sometimes to engage in a conversation.
It's like the definition of a type of hockey, said Hr谩dek. How many have been indications that should be in his life. He has lived and worked. It's his life. He was a true and real hockey and it was for me to hear that he had been sick and what happened today. sad story you Bettman Vice-president of hockey operations Colin Campbell said earlier in the day when he was coach of the New York Rangers in the mid-1990s and became an assistant to McGuire possible. McGuire, however, had already committed to the formation of the Guelph Storm of the OHL.
Although I could make money in four cases and get to the NHL, he did it because he felt the need and felt it was appropriate to their values, this commitment to young people in the large junior honor, said Bettman.
Campbell subsequently joined the program to share their thoughts on the news of the death of McGuire.
EJ is one of those people simply hockey, Campbell said. When I retired as a player and was assistant coach in Detroit, I think, EJ, who had moved to Philadelphia in the years of Keenan and went to Chicago with Mike - Where are all the Co-Trainer training at the time have been not only technical, but has offered food money, the development of the players when they are ready to return from injury, ice to find a way had to get time.
EJ was was the first assistant coach with the group of assistant coach that we have discovered a system other than the letter of ice time. It was formed one of the assistant coach years ago the rest of us just stupid athletes players , Campbell continued with a smile. Each attracted to EJ. I had a college degree and I think he discovered computers at the time in the mid-80s. McGuire was last December leiomyoscarcoma, a rare form of cancer is incurable, that the cells of which are diagnosed aggressive involuntary muscles in the body attack. Campbell said he was aware of the diagnosis, but McGuire learned only recently ill and have little time left.
He approached me a month ago with a number of things that he thought he would go to Central Scouting, said Campbell. And the last thing we said when we had the meeting: And you have to replace. I said, 'OK, now, where are you? And he told us the bad news.
By the end of scouting and EJ was the Central League and the people who work for him worried. Call San Jose Sharks, Doug Wilson, McGuire crossed late in his time playing with the Chicago Blackhawks, a good friend and good person. I love EJ. Just the kind of man he is, I think it's all about hockey, Wilson said during an appearance on the show Bettman. It was a great coach, but many things he did, and worked with the League has touched many people at all levels of hockey. Both as an assistant coach, then Central Scouting, creating a ranking of the players before the draft each year, McGuire was known for its innovation, meticulous, and how they treat others with dignity and respect.
I think to understand the work and the ability to listen, and take it and apply it to what is needed is not in the game, Wilson said. As a coach, was part of a team of Mike Keenan and Jacques Martin coached and was himself a role to play there, but I think it was a role that was real and true for him. It said one of the great gifts of life is you time for others, and he was the coach. I've seen him do in the CSR and treat people with respect and he is a star player or manager, or the commissioner or a parent of a young prospect or a family member.
Our thoughts are with his wife and two daughters when we are now. But he is a man of the match and have treated with great respect, and I think he has touched many lives. Campbell said the visit Monday and McGuire funeral on Tuesday in Oakville, Ontario are planned.
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