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| Paul Stewart coaching the New York Titans. |
One year ago, Paul Stewart was
an assistant coach with the Brookin Redmen as they finished first in
the Major Series Lacrosse regular season and was the heir apparent to
veteran Head Coach and GM Wayne Colley. With Colley having
retired from his job and having been saying for several years that he
was going to be retiring from coaching soon, as well, it appeared
that Stewart's time to be a head man was coming soon. Well, it turned
out that it was, but not in Brooklin.
During the off-season, before the MSL
draft in January, Stewart received a text from Colley saying that the
team was going in a different direction and his services as a coach
would no longer be required. Stewart, as you could have guessed, was
not very pleased either with being let go or with being informed via
text message.
So, now how does he feel as his
Brampton Excelsiors head into town with the chance to eliminate the
Redmen from playoff contention Wednesday night? “If
you had told me then that it would come down to their last game of
the season and I had the opportunity to eliminate them from the
playoffs I would have thought that was a storybook but right now it
is water under the bridge and my main focus is securing third-place
and nothing else,” Stewart asserts.
Brooklin
has to win Wednesday or they won't be in the postseason. While
Brampton has already clinched a berth in the playoffs, the game isn't
meaningless to them; a win would ensure them of third place.
