Keenan Becomes First To Win NHL And KHL Titles

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When Mike Keenan and Metallurg Magnitogorsk won the KHL title with a 7-4 win over Lev Praha, he became the first coach to win a championship in both leagues...

Here's the end...
((HT: KHL their own selves))


Keenan took over for Paul Maurice when the latter went to Winnipeg to take over for the fired Claude Noel...

Here's a look at what Keenan has gone through in his transition to the Kontinental way...
Also, Grantland's Katie Baker's piece on Keenan and the KHL earlier this season is required reading as well...

Now, if Keenan can come back for TV duties for the Finals over here...
Or, does he go on a long vacation...???

Well deserved...

Mike Keenan Goes All Mike Keenan On KHL Officials

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Keenan took over the Metallurg Magnitogorsk squad in the KHL this season and is one win away from getting a title by beating Lev Praha... the series was 3-2 and Game 6 was in overtime when Keenan went all off on officials when the game was over...

Here's the overtime period...and the nutty is around the 12:30 mark...


What Keenan was so hot about was the non-call behind the Lev goal where it looks like one of his own was pinned down and not allowed to get up and get back in the play. It created a man-advantage and, eventually, the goal that created a Game 7...

"If you're going to call it, call it," Keenan said before his string of imperatives at the men in the zebra shirts...

No truth to the rumor that Game 7 is what President Putin wanted in the first place...

Mike Keenan's New Gig Just Makes Us Dizzy

((HT: Metallurg Magnitogorsk their own selves))

Mike Keenan is leaving his TV gig here in the states to coach in the KHL...

And just look at the production value that announces his return to the bench...


What will the sequel hold...??? Maybe a snap zoom here or there... sideways tilts...

The HQ can't wait...