Bill Armstrong - If you want to be in the desert, you have to bleed for it.
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Bill Armstrong, the new General Manager of the Arizona Coyotes is Craig's special guest, this week on the Full 60. Bill and Craig get into Bill's philosophy on drafting, his job interview with Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo, what he learned from Doug Armstrong and Jarmo Kekalainen, and what it was like to jump in with both feet in dealing with the Oliver Ekman Larsson trade discussion.
Plus fans of the St. Louis Blues will enjoy some draft history stories on Parayko and what it was like to work with former Coyotes great Keith Tkachuk.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custin's and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:10.0 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:18.3 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of The Full 60. |
| 0:22.2 | I am very excited to be joined by Arizona Coyotes GM, Bill Armstrong, |
| 0:28.8 | right in the middle, in the thick of things. |
| 0:31.3 | So we're going to jump in so he can get back to work. |
| 0:33.4 | Bill, thank you for doing this. |
| 0:35.3 | I know it's crazy right now. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, it's a busy time for sure, but thanks for having me on the podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | And looking forward to chat with you and updating you on how things are going in the desert. |
| 0:48.0 | All right. |
| 0:48.3 | Well, let's start right now very much in the moment because it's funny. |
| 0:51.9 | There was a lot of speculation |
| 0:55.0 | surrounding the coyotes even before you took the job and I don't know if it was |
| 1:00.3 | your fellow GMs you know circling and saying hey we've got some opportunity here or |
| 1:06.0 | what it was and I think a lot of people expected you know massive changes and salaries got to go and all this stuff. But it's been, I feel like you've been patient. What's been the approach or what's been this week like for you? Well, it's, yeah, it's, it's, it is a patient approach because you never want to throw the, the baby out with the bathwater. Right. I think whenever you take over, there's a little bit, |
| 1:29.9 | there's a little good and a little bad of what the previous people have done. So you've got to |
| 1:34.4 | make sure that you go through very carefully and slowly and patiently and patiently and make sure |
| 1:39.5 | that you make the right moves and don't get too excited. So once we got in here, we got our staff, you know, |
| 1:46.8 | together we made some decisions and went over some stuff and planned some stuff for the future. |
| 1:53.0 | And what we just, what our main thing was just to be calm and put together the best team that we |
| 1:59.4 | think we can possibly for next year. |
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