Patrick Roy told the Avs to take their coaching job and shove it.
Try to rationalize Roy’s sudden – and more than a little surprising – resignation from the Avalanche any way you want. But the bottom line is: A hockey man that demands nothing less than excellence ran out of patience with a once-dominant NHL team’s mamby-pamby approach to restoring its lost luster.
By quitting a job he held for three years, Roy put an exclamation point on the same message frustrated fans had been sending the Avalanche for more than a decade: Is this team really serious about winning the Stanley Cup?