Each month we’ll give a shout out to one NHL team’s coaching staff for pulling out ahead of the pack.

The month of February 2021 goes to the Tampa Bay Lightning coaching staff, including Jon Cooper (Head Coach), Derek Lalonde, Jeff Halpern, and Rob Zettler (Assistant Coaches), Frantz Jean (Goaltending Coach), Nigel Kirwan (Head Video Coach) and Brian Garlock (Video Coordinator). Congrats on taking the February 2021 Coaching Staff of the Month award!

THE STATS:
10-3-0 record
.769 Points %
28.6 Power Play %
93.3 Penalty Kill %
2 Shutouts

How’s the scoring work? We look at 5 categories for how teams are doing:

  1. Wins
  2. Points Percentage
  3. Shutouts
  4. Power Play Percentage
  5. Penalty Kill Percentage

Then we take the top ten teams from each category that month and assign points based on how they finished in that respective category. Combine that with any subjective categories, like a really long winning streak, and we determine which coaching staff is most deserving of the title each month.