{"id":2886,"date":"2011-11-28T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2011-11-28T20:34:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:34:30","slug":"montreal-newspaper-says-hurricanes-taking-a-big-gamble-on-muller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Montreal newspaper says Hurricanes taking a big gamble on Muller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Carolina general manager Jim Rutherford is rolling the dice by hiring a coach with limited head coaching experience. Prior to joining the Admirals, (Kirk) Muller\u2019s only head coaching stint was a year behind the bench of a very bad team at Queen\u2019s University,&#8221; said writer Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Hickey says that Muller is a good guy who can identify with players but he&#8217;ll have to take a crash course in how to act like a head coach. &#8220;The head man doesn\u2019t always have the luxury of being a good guy and Muller will have to figure out a way to motivate a team whose best players \u2013 Eric Staal, Cam Ward and Tomas Kaberle among others \u2013 haven\u2019t been the best players,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/sports\/Hurricanes+gamble+inexperienced+Muller\/5779810\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Carolina general manager Jim Rutherford is rolling the dice by hiring a coach with limited head coaching experience. Prior to joining the Admirals, (Kirk) Muller\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}