Don Waddell
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67 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
Don Waddell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But every time I talked to him, I could just see or hear the passion about coaching our team.
You know, he studied it.
He knew our team.
And then when I finally brought him in and met with our group here, it was clear that he was our number one choice.
And, you know, I think, you know, we had time on our hand.
Everybody was excited.
asking when I'm going to hire a coach.
We had the draft coming up at free agency.
31 teams had a coach.
So I know the guys that were out there were going to be available the next month.
So we did a lot of homework on all the guys.
And, you know, the one thing about Dean's teams, as you said, they come to play every night.
We might not be or not the most talented team in the league, but there's no reason why we can't work harder than the other team to try to –
give ourselves some advantage that way and that's how we won hockey games and the good thing is you know we've played seven games for 500 you know we've played hard every night and we're getting rewarded if you weren't getting rewarded it would start to wear off a little bit but the guys see the effect that how dean's approach it it's working so that i believe it will continue on this path
Yeah, when I made the decision to leave Carolina, I didn't know what I was going to do.
And then Mike Priest, president here, called and asked if I'd come in and talk to him.
And my first question was, what's your plan?
Are we trying to rebuild here?
What are we doing?
And he said, no, we've got to try to continue to take that step forward.
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