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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2941305" data-attributes="member: 2012">Team Canada News!Great One likes Alberta coachesSportsnet.caJuly 11, 2006Sportsnet.ca -- Wayne Gretzky says the two best Canadian hockey coaches today are found in Alberta and should be the early favourites to lead Team Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.According to a report in the The Globe and Mail, Gretzky said Edmonton Oilers bench boss Craig MacTavish and Calgary Flames head coach Darryl Sutter should receive serious consideration for the job that is now 43 months away."There are lots of good Canadian coaches," Gretzky told the paper. "But when you look at what Craig and Darryl have accomplished with their teams the last few years, they absolutely should be the favourites. They coached their teams to the Stanley Cup finals and they coach in Canada, and right now they are the best Canadian coaches in the game."Gretzky added that it will be two years before he makes a decision on whether he will return as the Canadian Olympic men's team executive director.The possibility also exists that he himself could be behind the Canadian bench in 2010.He was asked whether he could see himself behind the bench at the Vancouver Games or a future Olympics."Absolutely," he said. "But the one thing I have learned over the years is that you earn your stripes, and the only way I would coach the team is if I earned my way."The Great One will have plenty of opportunity to do just that having recently signed a five-year extension to coach the Phoenix Coyotes.</blockquote>

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