[[Confirmed] Willie Desjardin: VAN Head Coach]

Not sure exactly what... you mean by this...Eakins has both played and coached in the NHL whereas Willie...hasn't. In fact Willie has only two years of ... pro level coaching experience ... and he's already 47...ten years older than Eakins.

having said that I have a good feeling about this guy while freely admitting that i don't know much about him other than he seems to be on a roll, a roll I hope continues.

What? Eakins when joining the nhl did not have more nhl experience. Unless your counting the fact he played as a player in the nhl. Coaching experience before coming to the nhl was dead even. Dallas spent two years as a maple leafs assistant and willie spent 2 years as a dallas stars assistant.

Where willie blows him out of the water is every level he succeeded that dallas hasn't. Gold medal as assistant coach in world juniors, silver as a head coach. 2 Memorial cups, and a calder cup.

Eakins got absolutely destroyed in the calder when he went up against jon cooper.

Hes also 57, i am guessing that was a typo.

[Burrows? Do We Really Need Him?]

On the detroit forum on hfboards they were shocked burrows won the game...

Seriously do no other fans besides us watch him?

I would pay him double what were paying him now, hes truely one of the best values in the nhl bar none, and never gets credit.