Sentences with phrase «manager assailed»

Some of the hockey was splendid and surprising — the Los Angeles Kings rallied from a 3 - 1 series deficit before falling in Game 7 to the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche, and eighth - seeded Montreal dumped No. 1 seed Boston in six games — but exciting matches were overshadowed by general managers assailing the officiating in polemics that ranged from the artful (by the Vancouver Canucks» Brian Burke) to the profane (by the New York Islanders» Mike Milbury).

Not exact matches

Mr. Hoyt, in a letter to the board, assailed the authority's general manager, Ron Rienas, a Canadian.

There was, for instance, Bill Mish, general manager of the Doubletree Hotel Chattanooga (where I hadn't stayed), who no doubt thought he'd scaled the heights of wit when he assailed my domicile, telling Pare, «Not everybody likes the smell of corned beef wafting through the air.»