Watch: Reporter has 'silent meltdown' on live TV after learning team's coach resigned
The news that Washington Capitals coach Barry Trotz abruptly resigned Monday just two weeks after winning the Stanley Cup shocked a lot of people in the sports world.
Apparently, it caught some people in the political world off guard as well.
Kelly Cohen, reporter for the Washington Examiner, was covering the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Monday when she read the news.
And here it is, the moment @politiCOHEN_ finds out Barry Trotz resigned pic.twitter.com/Y38VwRdkrf
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) June 18, 2018
She just happened to be on live TV at the time.
Cohen’s shocked reaction, sitting behind Inspector General Michael Horowitz was on display for all to see.
just found out barry trotz has resigned and i just had to have a full on silent meltdown in the middle of this senate judiciary hearing
— kelly cohen (@ByKellyCohen) June 18, 2018
“Just found out that Barry Trotz has resigned and I just had to have a full silent meltdown in the middle of this Senate Judiciary hearing,” Cohen tweeted Monday.
yep. here is said silent meltdown capture in camera (thanks for the screengrab @MDBaKaPaulK!) pic.twitter.com/IBAMmH1u4N
— kelly cohen (@ByKellyCohen) June 18, 2018
While she covers the Justice Department and intelligence topics for the Washington Examiner, she also covers local teams for NBC Sports Washington and SB Nation, according to Yahoo Sports.
“Obviously you can’t really talk out loud, because the director of the FBI is probably speaking, and top senators are speaking. So that’s why I had to have that little silent meltdown, which obviously now is not that silent,” Cohen told the Post.
She said she was in the middle of writing a story about the hearing when she got the alert.
Reporter Kelly Cohen was all of us when she learned that Barry Trotz was resigning as head coach of the Washington Capitals. She just happened to be in the middle of a Senate Judiciary hearing at the time…😅
(📹: CNN)Full Story: https://t.co/VXECrUPcPM pic.twitter.com/WhvPnshJvA
— KATV News (@KATVNews) June 19, 2018
“It’s just wild to me that he’s leaving,” Cohen told the Post, putting her sports reporter’s hat on. “If the hearing was a little more bombshell, I wouldn’t have cared so much in that moment, but because it was kind of slow-moving . . . and it was just such a curve for him to go, I really didn’t see that.
“It’s really interesting that he wins the Stanley Cup, the first championship for a Washington team in how many years, and he’s gone? That’s crazy to me. You have to appease the person who led your team to that title,” Cohen added.
Reports suggest Trotz resigned after not being able to come to terms on a contract extension with the team.
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