Coaching Paths

Coaching Paths

For the men who stand behind the bench, the immediacy and all-encompassing reality of results aren’t a throwaway line from a GM in a press conference. It is the life.

New Golden Knights Coach Peter DeBoer discusses new team, moving to Las Vegas

New Golden Knights Coach Peter DeBoer discusses new team, moving to Las Vegas

“It’s been a blur,” new Vegas Golden Knights Coach Peter DeBoer said of his sudden hiring to the team. “I got a call and was on a bench coaching in Ottawa literally 24 hours later,” DeBoer said. “I’ve always admired this franchise from the other side of the rink and the bench. The electricity of the building and the passion of the fans. To experience it first hand, and to walk around this city is something special.”

The gamble that made the Sharks’ Pete DeBoer an elite NHL coach

The gamble that made the Sharks’ Pete DeBoer an elite NHL coach

By Scott Burnside (The Athletic) Back in the early 1990s, the coaches and general managers of the major junior teams in Ontario would get together and make the next season’s schedule. It was an arduous process and often the younger GMs in the group would get the short...