"It was a great feeling, walking down the hallway and out behind the bench for the first time, " he said.
The feisty and combative coach was fired by the New York Rangers on Wednesday after four-plus seasons behind the bench and four trips to the postseason.
Atkinson was nearly reduced to tears, his teammates on the bench looked on in horror, as did people sitting in the rows immediately behind the bench.
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All that said, he'd love to find his way back into hockey in some form, and he might be able to call upon his experience behind the bench.
The highlight of the game was the Staples Center crowd cheering for Bryant in the third quarter as he used his crutches to walk to a seat behind the bench in his first appearance since his injury.
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Pitino, fresh off his team's 82-76 win in the title game over Michigan on Monday night, was sitting behind the Cardinals bench, trying to spur on the women's team.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski burned a timeout, and Louisville forward Chane Behanan held up four fingers to the partisans behind the Louisville bench.
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How fitting it was to see Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in a hooded sweatshirt sitting behind the Knicks bench during Sunday's New York victory over Dallas.
Ruff, who also played 10 seasons for Buffalo, had been behind the club's bench since 1997 and was the NHL's longest-tenured head coach.
The small sprinkling of blue-and-white faithful that sat behind the Saint Louis bench stood and cheered.
He rose gingerly and moments later could be seen behind the Redskins' bench, having tape applied.
Rajaratnam sat not with his lawyers but, rather, on a bench behind the defense table, the shiny wave of his hair almost touching his hunched shoulders.
He has shown an exceptional ability to perform under pressure, but many of the less dedicated basketball fans will tune out should he perform at a middling level or spend most of his time on the bench behind Kidd.
With the packed, yellow-clad cheering section behind their bench roaring and rolling, the Shockers stretched their lead to 13 points 1:48 before halftime even though Ohio State finally got some defensive stops, bodying up to Carl Hall and Wichita State's low-post offense.
Remember from the video the Coca-Cola logo that appears behind Tom Hanks in one of the bench scenes in Forest Gump.
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Mr. Browne said the witnesses described a scene in which the woman rose from a bench on the platform, went behind the man and then pushed him onto the tracks as the train pulled into the station.
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Bowyer then spoke to a spectator seated behind the visitors' dugout as he took his seat on the bench.
But the women's team couldn't complete the feat with a sleepless Rick Pitino, the men's basketball coach, behind its bench to watch.
The ultimate was when DeBoer was told to leave the bench once his team was hopelessly behind with just a few seconds left.
The other four members of the Fab Five sat in the lower rows of a fan section behind Michigan's bench.
Louise Rickard, with 110 caps behind her at wing and full-back, is on the bench as second row cover while uncapped number eight Vici Owens and centre Adi Taviner make their first appearance on the bench.
He spent 13 minutes on a conference call with reporters Thursday afternoon, one of his lengthier and more cordial sessions of the spring, but he never did reveal any details behind perhaps the biggest story of the series so far: his decision to bench star forward Marian Gaborik for much of the third period in Game 2.
After the service was finished and most everyone had gone home, I sat down on a bench in the lobby with one of the church employees, Carlos Roberson, who stayed behind to lock up.
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