Albatross,
Yes, "Lucky left/rotten right" is only so for counter-clockwise rotor rotation, e.g. Sikorsky, Agusta. For French helicopters, it's the other way round.
As someone who has had to fly helicopters of different main rotor blade directions, the thing I taught myself and my students to remember is that the "lucky" side is the retreating blade side. Hopefully most pilots remember that from when they started up the "aircraft of the day"!
I don't blame TC's scepticism about the very high speed running landing. I just wish he could be slightly less rude about it. Just to reiterate, I never taught him that, no-one taught him that and by all accounts he was very lucky to survive.