According to the reports. Mike Keenan "resigned" from the Florida Panthers earlier today. According to the wire services, the owner of Panthers knew about the pending resignation
The good news--the Panthers don't have to put up with Keenan's scheduled meltdown in his third season as GM.
The bad news--Keenan's in play. and given that in the past Keenan has "resigned" knowing he has a place to land, anyone who's on a team that has a GM in doubt ought to start telling the press and anyone else who listens what a wonderful GM Ferguson/Nonis/Pick_a_GM is.
And if Keenan announced or even broadly hinted as to his intentions to the Panthers' owner, then chances are that Keenan has at least a sniff that there's a GM job up for grabs. And given that there is already noises out of Toronto that Ferguson is on a *very* short timer, well there's no smoking gun, but there sure are lots of 9mm holes in the wall, and air has a sudden sulphuric perfume to it.
Ah yes, the CBC can look forward to all those Saturday nights with Keenan telling them the state of the Leafs. They can assign a sound engineer to attest that yes, Keenan's voice does keep getting higher the deeper in hockey-doo he's gotten himself. Maybe they can arrange a cage match between Keenan and Strachan--you know, something for after the Queen's address on Christmas!
But until Keenan lands, a lot of players will be looking over their shoulder, pulling their sweaters a little tighter across their shoulders, and *wondering*. And feeling a small chill.....
