Hawgood's comment, Part 2

From The Daily News of Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007 . . .

KELOWNA — Greg Hawgood, the head coach of the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers, got bit by the learning curve last weekend.
“Unfortunately, I’ve been chewing on my shoes an awful lot,” said Hawgood, the Blazers’ interim head coach, didn’t have anything in the way of coaching experience when he replaced the fired Dean Clark on Nov. 8. Hawgood was fined $500 after getting tossed late in a 6-2 loss to the visiting Chilliwack Bruins on Dec. 1. He also has found himself overwhelmed at times with all of the off-ice things that go with being a head coach at this level, including dealing with the media.
Which brings us to Hawgood’s latest lesson . . .
Kevin Paul Dupont, a sports writer with the Boston Globe, writes a weekly hockey notebook that appears Sundays. Last weekend, Dupont topped his notebook with a piece on Hawgood, who played 134 regular-season games — they called it Hawgie Hawkey — with the Bruins.
During the course of the interview, Dupont asked Hawgood about his family, and Hawgood mentioned that his son Logan, 14, is a big fan of the Boston University Terriers and already is talking about playing for them.
Logan is a defenceman with the bantam AAA Jardine’s Blazers.
"Great by me,” Hawgood told Dupont. “I want what's best for him, and a lot of people here think I'd want him to go the Canadian junior route. Well, you know, I don't think I'd want him to be a sixth or seventh defenceman in the Western League for three years, then go try to make it in the ECHL. That's a tough way to go. He's got good grades, and if he's lucky enough to go to a good college, that would be fantastic."
Hawgood’s comment didn’t sit well within the WHL — the WHL office has since spoken with Hawgood — while the comment quickly made the Internet rounds in U.S. college circles.
“I just have to . . . (people have) misunderstood what I meant,” Hawgood said prior to a game here Friday night. “I want to fix what I said and I will do that next week.
“I think it’s just misunderstood.”
Hawgood chose not to say anything further, concluding with: “I don’t want to dig myself any deeper.”
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Kirk Fraser, the radio voice of the Blazers, had a guest analyst on last night’s broadcast. While Fraser usually flies solo, David Michaud served as his sidekick last night.
Michaud recently was removed as the colourman on Kelowna Rockets broadcasts on AM1150. Michaud, who was in his second season alongside play-by-play man Regan Bartel, works in sales at AM1150.