Posts About "NHL Coaches"
Maple Leafs New Coach Paul MacLean Continues to Shake it Off
September 27th, 2020 When the Toronto Maple Leafs signed Paul MacLean, I immediately thought of Taylor Swift. Why? Do they look alike? Sing at a similar pitch? No, but in my mind, these two are forever linked. Paul MacLean is the new assistant coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs Photo BY Canadian Press. June, 2011. Rewind to Dec. 8, 2014, a day Ottawa...
Rangers Get Deep Experience & Expertise With Martin Hire
September 26th, 2020 As NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman recently revealed, the start date for the upcoming 2020-21 season could be within the late December or early January time frame. With a fresh start on the horizon, the New York Rangers will dive into their 94th season with their newly hired assistant coach, Jacques...
Kraken: 2 Outside-the-Box Head Coaching Candidates
September 20th, 2020 There has been plenty of speculation and guessing on who will be the Seattle Kraken's first head coach. A few high-profile names have been mentioned repeatedly as candidates for the job. Gerard Gallant, Mike Babcock, and Peter Laviolette being the most prominent. Laviolette is now off the table after being hired by the Washington...
Is Geoff Ward the Right Option For the Flames?
September 18th, 2020 The Calgary Flames announced on Monday that Geoff Ward would be losing his interim label, and the team would be replacing his title with something a little more fitting - "head coach of the Calgary Flames." Geoff Ward, Calgary Flames (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers) Now of course, for Ward and the Flames, the new label probably...
Boughner Gives These Sharks Their Last Chance to Contend
August 27th, 2020 It’s no secret that the 2019-20 season didn’t go as planned for the San Jose Sharks. Starting out the season 16-17-2 under veteran head coach Peter DeBoer, general manager Doug Wilson relieved DeBoer of his duties and named assistant coach and former NHL defenseman Bob Boughner as interim head coach. The Sharks record under Boughner...
Capitals Relieve Reirden of Coaching Duties
August 23rd, 2020 The Washington Capitals announced this afternoon that general manager Brian MacLellan has relieved head coach Todd Reirden of his duties as head coach. MacLellan also released a statement on Twitter: Statement from Capitals senior vice president and general manager Brian MacLellan pic.twitter.com/SBCKSHUpQg— Washington Capitals...
Seattle Kraken Have Some Cracking Choices for Their First Head Coach
August 18th, 2020 Sometimes it's hard to know who the best candidate is going to be for a coaching job in the NHL. It can be a choice between a veteran with visible warts or an unproven rookie without a track record at the pro level to support the hiring decision. The veteran has often left another franchise due to a lack of results, stagnation or a...
Reirden's Future With Capitals Has To Be in Trouble
August 18th, 2020 The Washington Capitals currently find themselves down 3-0 in their Stanley Cup playoff series against the New York Islanders. This is certainly not where this team expected to be and it cannot be where general manager Brian MacLellan expected them to be. It's hard to look at the roster with the deadline additions MacLellan made and not...
Colliton Sets Sights on Success With Blackhawks
August 17th, 2020 After earning only six wins in the team’s first 15 games of 2018-19, missing the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and having been swept in the First Round of 2017’s postseason, things seemed bleak for the Chicago Blackhawks. At the time, former head coach Joel Quenneville was synonymous with the organization he led to three Stanley...
Predators Will Soon See If Hynes Was the Right Choice
August 2nd, 2020 John Hynes will have a lot to prove in the 2020 NHL Playoffs. The salvaged conclusion to the season will be the head coach’s first shot in the postseason with the Nashville Predators, a team built to win now and expected to win now. Firing Peter Laviolette midseason demonstrated the state of the team and the perceived ceiling that...
Roger Neilson: Coaching Genius & Innovator
July 25th, 2020 The late Roger Neilson will forever go down as one of the most unique coaches in NHL history. His style, personality, and willingness to do anything to gain an upper hand is the stuff of legends. He was an innovator who was responsible for many of the rules the NHL has today because he just knew how to exploit a loophole in the rule...
The Rangers Are Better Off Without Lindy Ruff
July 10th, 2020 Hindsight is 20/20, but the New York Rangers' decision to hire Lindy Ruff as a defensive assistant in 2017 was a mistake. Bringing him on seems to have been based on his relationship with the coaching staff, rather than his ability to build a reliable and consistent defense. It's unbearably obvious that Ruff has never been a good...
McLellan Has Kings Playing the Right Way
March 28th, 2020 Before the ‘pause,’ the sports world was consumed with the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal. So, when Los Angeles Kings’ head coach Todd McLellan said, “we’re not cheating a lot to win,” it raised a few eyebrows. Just saying the word “cheat” gets attention, but during this hyper-sensitive time in the same city as...
