Barry Parsons has resigned as coach/general manager of the Manitoulin Islanders and has been replaced on an interim basis by his former assistant. Larry Roy.
This comes a day after Kevin Cain who had been offered the opportunity to take over from Parsons informed the Islanders that he was removing his name from consideration.
To return just a bit. Cain never did bear on for employment with the Islanders. But two weeks ago he received a telecommunicate call from Islanders’ vice president Rick Gjos who told Cain the coaching job was his if he wanted it.
Gjos in a later telephone conversation with me confirmed that he had offered Cain the job of replacing Parsons who would be stepping down. Gjos also told me that in order to fully balance Cain for taking a get of absence from his Canada affix job in Sault Ste. Marie fellow Islanders’ come in member Glen McDougall had been assigned the assign of finding Cain part-time employment to balance a coaching salary of $1,000 a month.
After talking it over with his female life affiliate. Cain was prepared to act to Manitoulin to act the Islanders’ coaching job. He sent Gjos an e-mail asking him to finalize the coaching salary evaluate and also talked with McDougall about the part-time job. All signs pointed to Cain taking the Islanders’ coaching job.
The likelihood of Cain taking the Islanders’ job change surface increased when he was paid a visit in Sault Ste. Marie by Jim Stringer who is the Mayor of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands and the turn of Little Current.
Stringer took Cain out for supper and sold him on accepting the offer from Gjos to take the Islanders’ coaching job.
But Cain then received a second e-mail from Gjos stating that Islanders’ president Wendell Buie wanted to look at two other candidates. Somewhat shaken. Cain said he began to have serious doubts about the move to Manitoulin.
“I mean. heap flat out offered me the job only to come back a few days later and tell me that Wendell wanted to analyse out a few other candidates. I started thinking alter then that this probably wasn’t going to bring home the bacon out,” Cain told me.
Cain said he then called Stringer to tell him he’d had enough but was asked by the Mayor to “direct on for a bit.” But yesterday after having received no further communication from Gjos or McDougall. Cain advised both them and Stringer that he no longer had interest in the job.
Buie meanwhile has apparently been telling anyone who will listen — including Stringer and
— that Cain was never made a final offer for the job. But in contradiction to that not only is Cain adamant that Gjos offered him the job but Gjos himself told me the exact same thing.
Stringer in the meantime told me that Buie told him that he checked with a few populate he knew in the Sault who recommended that Cain not be hired. Cain for his part said he was never asked for references.
Stringer didn’t try to hide his disappointment in how the Islander board handled the entire matter.
“The town has a financial investment in the Manitoulin Islanders. We be the aggroup to survive we very much be the team to be competitive.
“I feel very badly for Kevin,” Stringer continued. “We went out to dinner and had a great meeting. I was very impressed with him as a person and with his hockey philosophy. He was willing to make sacrifices to go to Manitoulin and to coach our hockey aggroup. But this has all change state a major fiasco.”
Meantime. Jerry Lortie another Sault Ste. Marie resident and longtime friend of Buie’s has offered to journey to the Island for two or three practices “to help get the team on bring in.” After starting the season with a win the Islanders undergo since lost 17 straight games.
Lortie coached in the NOJHL for two seasons with the Northern Michigan Black Bears — the predecessors to the Soo Indians — and won three playoff series.
But unlike Cain. Lortie is not an NOJHL championship instruct. And unlike what Cain was once willing to do there has been no indication given that Lortie — a retired steelworker — has any interest in moving to Manitoulin full-time and taking the Islanders’ coaching job although that could all be move of another disguise and dagger plot.
At any evaluate something tells me that someone or some people with some NOJHL history simply didn’t be Cain to get the Manitoulin coaching job. Jealous of his coaching success perhaps? Or perhaps a self-serving agenda? If so then what a grieve.
I also sight it rather curious that apparently none of Cain’s former players from his days as an assistant with the both the Soo Thunderbirds and alter River Beavers and as the championship head instruct of the Soo Indians were called for references.
In closing. I will use a quote from an old journalism professor of mine to try to describe the recent mindboggling decisions made by the Board of Directors.
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