Posts About "Peter DeBoer"
Golden Knights' First 10 Games Under DeBoer, What Do We Know?
February 16th, 2020 We're 10 games into Peter DeBoer's tenure as head coach of the Vegas Golden Knights and already there is a lot learned on what this team is going to be like going down the stretch. The 10 games are broken down into three groups - observation, implementation, and execution. There is a lot to unpack in the 10-game block.. The...
Golden Knights Should Be Thinking 'Defense First'
February 4th, 2020 Head coach Peter DeBoer is known to study video. Breaking down plays and systems is one of his signature strengths as a coach. He used a large portion of the All-Star break — the Vegas Golden Knights had 10 days between games — to pore over video and consider adjustments to how his new team will play. His immediate goal coming...
Golden Knights Better With DeBoer but Time Will Tell
February 2nd, 2020 Twenty-eight games to go, five teams separated by three points, and games in hand, the Vegas Golden Knights' road to the Stanley Cup Playoffs is going to be an adventure. Oh, and did I mention they fired their much-beloved head coach and replaced him with the coach from their arch rival, the San Jose Sharks? It's Been a Tumultuous...
Vegas Golden Knights' Paul Stastny: What's Going On?
January 23rd, 2020 When Paul Stastny was brought into the Vegas Golden Knights organization in 2018, he was expected to contribute right off the bat. In his first season, he had a shooting percentage of 12.6, 13 goals and 42 points. Stastny played 50 games in 2018-19, which should be taken into consideration. In 2019-2020, the goals and the shooting...
Gallant Sacked in Vegas as Golden Knights Search for Answers
January 17th, 2020 Shock waves reverberated through the Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday morning when most of us woke up to the news that the Vegas Golden Knights had relieved head coach Gerard Gallant and assistant coach Mike Kelly of their coaching duties. As we all know, that's fancy speak for, they were fired. And in the next breath after announcing...
Golden Knights Fire Gallant, Name DeBoer New Coach
January 15th, 2020 Gerard Gallant was abruptly fired as coach of the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday less than two years after leading them to the Stanley Cup Final in their first season of existence. Peter DeBoer takes over immediately, a month after being fired by the San Jose Sharks. General manager Kelly McCrimmon announced the stunning change...
Sharks Need More Than a Coaching Change
December 15th, 2019 Speculations and rumors as to the security of Pete DeBoer's head coaching job were wildly running rampant around the NHL following the terrible start the San Jose Sharks had to the 2019-20 season. After a winless start to December, Pete DeBoer was put on the chopping block. The tension finally boiled over and on Wednesday, Dec. 11,...
Sharks' Interim Bench Boss Boughner Brings Experience
December 14th, 2019 Pete DeBoer joined the lengthy list of coaches relieved of their duties this season, following the San Jose Sharks dropping five straight games. Sources revealed that DeBoer’s firing was purely hockey-related – a distinction that is now important to make after Bill Peters of the Calgary Flames and Jim Montgomery of the Dallas Stars...
Sharks’ Legacy of Playoff Disappointment Not Getting Any Better
November 14th, 2019 When the St. Louis Blues took home the franchise’s very first Stanley Cup by winning it all against the Boston Bruins last season, the list of teams yet to hoist the trophy dropped down to 11. One of the teams trying to get their names scratched off that list is the San Jose Sharks, who’ve yet to raise the Cup since joining the...
San Jose Sharks on the Brink
April 18th, 2019 After a win to open their playoff series against the Vegas Golden Knights, the San Jose Sharks have lost three straight and are now a game away from ending a season which once held Stanley Cup expectations. There was no mystery when it came to what the Sharks needed to do. We even developed a checklist to follow and the team...
Sharks' DeBoer Tempts Fate
March 21st, 2019 In his post-game press conference following the San Jose Sharks' loss to the Nashville Predators on March 16, head coach Peter DeBoer indicated his team was tired, saying "some of our big guys are a little fatigued." Here’s the thing, part of a coach’s job is to manage players so they don’t get fatigued. Is it always...
Sharks & DeBoer Must Avoid Key Mistake
February 20th, 2019 Each season, it seems San Jose Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer has done a good job. And each would have been very good had he avoided making one key mistake. In his first season with the Sharks, he coached the team to the Stanley Cup Final. There, against a speedy Pittsburgh Penguins team, he kept together the very slow...
The Four Keys to Sharks Success
December 12th, 2018 In my prior piece, I laid out the four things the San Jose Sharks need to do to meet the high expectations set out for this powerhouse roster. Since then the Sharks have played three games, losing to the Dallas Stars 3-2, then beating the Arizona Coyotes 5-3 and the New Jersey Devils 5-2. We’ll take a deeper dive into...
