Joey Kocur

There was a lot of toughness with those Rangers teams, huh?

Was Mike Gartner the most shocking one that left, right?

Because of his speed and how good he was and all of a sudden he's not there either?

Let's talk about this.

Joe, when Witt was introing you, he said video coach for the Wings.

Like, was that just a title or were you actually watching a ton of film?

i was just gonna say like the video coaches when remember when it wouldn't play and like the panic then everyone started giving it to them but with a guy like joey no one's gonna be giving it to him so you're gonna help him can i help you with that i don't know anything either i saw the clip of torts the other day in new york and and the light burns out yeah and he's like this is fucking bad but we can't have this happen right now joey would have stood up what are you gonna do about it

Yeah, yeah, doink.

But the reason I ask is I noticed your first couple years in New York, you had Roger Nielsen, and if I'm not mistaken, he was one of the first guys to start using video and how to break down stuff for the players in the locker room.

Did you kind of, like, take that from him?

But was it pretty cool, you know, having Roger Nielsen as a coach and like, what was it like, you know, getting coached by him?

Oh, and for a guy like you and somebody who played the way you did, it seems that there's not a ton of like headbutting with coaches because they respect so much of how you're going out and doing your job.

But Scotty Bowman and Mike Keenan are guys that would get into it, I think, a little bit with players.

For you, did you ever have any maybe fuck you matches or anything like that with those guys?

When you talk about the thing with Keenan, what was it about?

Your play?

Because I'm just curious what he was actually picking on you for, even though you'd give it right back to him.

I think it's pretty cool when we've talked to the Rangers on that team, how the madness after, because you were up 3-1, right?

Then Vancouver won two of the games, and then Keenan made the decision, or maybe mess,

to go up, was it like upstate New York?