All Entries Tagged With: "John MacLean"
Time for a Do-Over: A New Season for the New Jersey Devils Begins Tonight
Things changed greatly for the New Jersey Devils last season. Rookie Head Coach John MacLean was brought in to help the Devils continue their winning ways. After all, the team was coming off of 13 consecutive playoff appearances, and had reached the Stanley Cup finals three times during that span. Ilya Kovalchuk was signed to [...]
New Jersey Devils fire John MacLean, bring back Jacques Lemaire, duhh!
After 33 games, the axe fell and the head finally rolled, just in time to celebrate Christmas with your friends and family… well everyone, except John MacLean who was fired earlier today by GM Lou Lamoriello. With a paltry 20 points so far this season, the Devils are on pace for a dismal 50-point season, [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits for Your Thursday Reading
Welcome to another edition of “Quick Hits”, where I point out what hockey blogs are talking about whether it’s teams, players, coaches, news, rumors, ideas, etc. So, throughout the rest of the work day whether it’s on your lunch break, snack break, procrastinating break, or whatever else you do to get away from work, feel free to [...]
New Jersey Devils name John MacLean as new head coach
Contrary to earlier reports stating John Haviland and Michel Therrien were the favorite candidates to land the job as the Devils head coach for the upcoming season, GM Lou Lamoriello has decided to hand the reigns of the club to the head coach of their American Hockey League affiliate in Lowell last season, former Devil [...]
The quest for NHL head coaches about to begin for four teams
TAMPA BAY Now that the Tampa Bay Lightning have hired their new GM in Steve Yzerman earlier this week, they are ready to start their quest in order to find their new head coach for the upcoming season. Yzerman is in no hurry to name his new head coach as he first wants to talk [...]
It’s Time For Johnny Mac!
He played in 1,022 games for the Devils. He was an assistant coach for the Devils for six seasons. He coached the Lowell Devils, his first season as a head coach, to a 39-31-10 record. Now, it’s time to finally give John MacLean a shot at the Devils head coaching job. The other names being [...]