Well, that just stinks!  I have met Brian and what a fun guy.  If this
report is true, I hope that it comes out in the media. (Got an
investigative reporter station?) The damage is done, but players should
not be allowed to get away with BS like this.  In fact, perhaps it is
time for Dillon to get the boot as well!

My thoughts are with the Cavanaugh family.

-Carol
GO Gophers!!!


Stephen Roth wrote:
>
> Gradually some things are coming out about the firing of Coach Brian Cavanaugh by Canisius, and they raise some serious questions.  Brian has always been a strict coach, and has not been one to look the other way when team members get out of line.  There have apparently been some incidents this year with alcohol involved, the most serious in Anchorage and on the flight from Alaska back to Buffalo.  I don't know if something else happened, or if some players who have been abusing alcohol may have been unhappy with discipline.  In any event, a group of players asked to meet with AD Tim Dillon.  For some reason, instead of meeting them at his office, Dillon went to a player's apartment a week ago last Wednesday.  I do not know what happened at that meeting, but Dillon did not even inform Coach Cavanaugh about it until the following Monday (December 6), 4 days before firing Brian.  No attempt was made to involve the coach in a discussion with the disgruntled players.
>
> In an ironic postscript, late last night a Canisius hockey player was arrested in Buffalo, charged with drunk/disorderly, taking his clothes off -- and punching out a Buffalo police officer.  AD Dillon went downtown early Sunday morning to bail the player out, and reportedly said to the player "This is what I get after all I've done for you?"
>
> Coach Cavanaugh is, I believe, the fourth Canisius coach summarily fired by Dillon.  In every instance, there were disgruntled team members who complained about their coach.  You have to wonder about the pattern, and also wonder who will be next?
>
> -- Steve Roth
>
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