Friday, December 7, 2007

LOADED FOR BEAR

by Dylan G. Dylan of the Victoria News

“I don’t see it as a surprise,” Penney says of his club’s record. “Since day one, people have said we’re surprising everyone because we’re extremely young. I just don’t see it that way. We’re 20 guys pulling on the same rope.”

Penney, it should be pointed out, is in his first year as head coach of the Grizzlies. That said, he is not a novice, in that he spent 14 years in pro hockey and harbours the experience of two years coaching in the German DEL Hockey League. He speaks in matter-of-fact, no-nonsense tones, he spits out clichés like they’re sunflower seeds and he seems genuinely offended at the suggestion that his Grizzlies continue to surprise people with their play.

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