Posts About "Rick Tocchet"
Coyotes off to Historically Bad Start
November 15th, 2017 As is to be expected after 100 years of league operation, there aren't many more feats or records left that haven't been accomplished at some point in NHL history. However, the 2-15-3 Arizona Coyotes have indeed managed to pull off something that's never been done before. They're the first team ever to fail to win at least one of...
Coyotes' Inconsistency Continues in 10th Straight Loss
October 27th, 2017 You might be wondering what has gone wrong so far this year for the Arizona Coyotes. For that, I'd tell you it might be easier to instead ask what has gone right this season. The answer? Not much. At 0-9-1 through the season's first 10 games, the Desert Dogs are just one defeat away from tying the record set by the 1943-44 New York...
Blown Leads & Missed Opportunities Plaguing Coyotes
October 24th, 2017 There's no question that the Arizona Coyotes are off to an absolutely brutal start to the 2017-18 season. They've failed to win a game in eight tries and are off to the worst start in franchise history by a wide margin. Prior to this year, the Coyotes had never started a season with more than two consecutive losses since moving to...
Arizona Coyotes Dogged by Blown Leads
October 8th, 2017 If NHL games were only 40 minutes long, the Coyotes would be 2-0 and everyone would be praising their quick start. Instead, two blown leads find the Coyotes 0-1-1. “That’s something we’re going to have to learn, to close games down,” defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson said. “But at the same time, we didn’t play good enough to...
Surprise... Coyotes Do Not Name a Captain
October 4th, 2017 On Tuesday, Arizona Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet made a surprising announcement; the team will not be naming a captain to start the season. Instead, he decided he would name three alternate captains. “The process of the captaincy, I’m not ready for that yet,” Tocchet told the Arizona Republic. “I think it’s important that...
MacLean, Allen Bring Wealth of Experience to Coyotes
August 8th, 2017 After he was introduced as the new head coach of the Arizona Coyotes on July 11, Rick Tocchet was immediately tasked with filling two vacancies on his coaching staff. Jim Playfair and Newell Brown, both of whom had served as assistants to Dave Tippett for multiple seasons, were relieved of their duties prior to Tocchet's arrival in...
