Jon Cooper Sees Lightning Style Baked Into Lalonde Red Wings
Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper laughs when he is asked whether he sees the Lightning influence that coach Derek Lalonde brought to today’s Detroit Red Wings.
How Red Wings’ Derek Lalonde, Lightning’s Jeff Blashill traded jobs and began new chapters
For being the world’s biggest hockey league, the NHL can be an awfully small world.
Tampa Bay prepared Red Wings’ Derek Lalonde to become NHL head coach
Derek Lalonde gained a wealth of knowledge and experience during his four-year apprenticeship as an assistant coach in Tampa Bay.
Red Wings give Derek Lalonde a dream debut with shutout win
Before the Red Wings ever hit the ice under Derek Lalonde, the new coach held a pre-training-camp meeting, at which he highlighted the team’s many defensive failings in 2021-22.
Derek Lalonde’s mother shaped his rise to Detroit: ‘She would be really proud’
Shortly before the Red Wings were going to officially announce his hiring as the new head coach on June 30, Derek Lalonde made eight or 10 phone calls to give some important people a heads up.
Inside Derek Lalonde’s coaching style: ‘Guys will want to win for him’
When Derek Lalonde arrived in Toledo back in 2014, the Red Wings’ ECHL-affiliate Walleye were staring up at a wide gap in the league’s standings.
Red Wings name Derek Lalonde Head Coach
Lalonde joins Detroit after winning two Stanley Cups as assistant coach with Tampa Bay Lightning.
Derek Lalonde’s short stint as Lightning coach hit home with the wisecracking buddies who saw his rise
Derek Lalonde found out a few hours before puck drop in Las Vegas on Dec. 21 that he’d be serving as an NHL head coach for the first time.
Lalonde’s successful hockey coaching career rooted in St. Lawrence Central athletics
Long before ever having his named etched onto the Stanley Cup as assistant coach of the 2019-20 Tampa Bay Lightning, Brasher Falls native Derek Lalonde had already earned his place in the St. Lawrence Central Sports Hall of Fame.
Ferris coach recalls former assistant now working in Stanley Cup Finals
Ferris State hockey coach Bob Daniels won’t quite ever forget some of the key contributions Derek Lalonde made as a member of his coaching staff. Lalonde is currently coaching for Tampa Bay against Dallas in the Stanley Cup finals.
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